There is a reason why I took the trouble to add this passage before the text. Traveling around these years, it is inevitable to check a lot of raiders. Unfortunately, most of the raiders I have seen don't like to mark the time. Most people who write raiders like to expand a person's experience in a time and place infinitely and draw a conclusion about what a country is like. I don't think this kind of information can help people, but it is suspected of misleading people.
Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you, so this introduction is made.
In modern society, settling in a strange place is nothing more than the following major events: accommodation, insurance, transportation, communication, banking services and food. I'll talk about them one by one later. But before that, I'd like to talk about the visa. After all, we must be able to get there before we can talk about settlement.
For us, applying for a visa has become a practical and perfect problem. Over the years, I have traveled all over the country, applied for visas from many countries and used up a passport. This German long-term visa happens to be the first visa of the new passport, but it still means a new beginning.
It was July when I received the invitation letter from the host professor. At that time, my wife and I were both in Singapore and both had long-term valid visas in Singapore, so I decided to apply in Singapore. For a one-year stay like this, you need to apply for a national visa in Germany. There are many items under the visa. Our situation requires applying for a student visa.
There are not many things you need to apply for a student visa, just the following:
Let me explain them one by one.
After all the information is ready, you can make an appointment online. Of course, if the time code for preparing materials is accurate, you can also make an appointment in advance and prepare materials during the waiting period. But I don't recommend taking this risk, because if you make an appointment but don't show up, you will be fined for not applying for a visa for four weeks.
The staff of the German Embassy in Singapore obviously have a small workload. They make an appointment for a time window every half hour, and it seems that they can only handle one or two people in half an hour. This is good and bad. The advantage is that when it's your turn, you can take it easy, and the staff have a very good attitude because of their relaxed work. The disadvantage is that the time window is limited, and the appointment time is often one month later. This may be the biggest difference in working attitudes between China and Europe. As soon as we arrive in Europe, we can feel it immediately, and we will talk about it later.
Because I applied for a visiting doctoral visa and applied in Singapore, it may be different from the requirements for applying for a bachelor's degree student visa in China. However, as long as the information is provided according to the requirements of the embassy, I believe there is no problem in signing it. As for the signing time, the domestic official said it was 6 to 8 weeks, and the German Embassy in New Zealand said it was 4 to 6 weeks. The actual signing time may vary greatly. After handing in the materials, the only thing I can do is wait patiently.
The feeling of these two weeks is that Germans are really strict and do everything according to the rules, so all kinds of Bescheinigung (proofs) are very important. And as long as you can come up with Bescheinigung, it will be very smooth. San Ji in the future? You will see this again. Next, I will? Talk about several major events of settling in Germany and what to do respectively. ?
(Bremen, Germany, 20 19 10 1).