avishek_1119 wrote:In my case my German Employer applied for the WP along eith other correspondence(invitaion letter etc.). I gotta interesting question here. How early you should apply for the WP prior to your travel? Is there any specification about it? I beleive if you apply close to your departure date, that should npt be a problem.Depending upon when I'm getting the WP my departure date will alter. In my case I have applied prior to 8 working days of my departure. My departure date already gone so wil have a modified departure date. But could there any impact on processing my WP?
The German consulate in UK said WP processing takes 6-10 weeks, so I'd say it would be prudent to apply three months in advance.
As I said before, the official at the Consulate said it would take 'at least three months' and she was right, it took four and a half.....
We asked for visa for Sept 2006 until end of placement end of Feb 2007. In the end we got the WP from end Nov 2006 till end Feb 2007. I suspect the start date was calculated purely on approval date plus a week.
Don't forget too you don't actually get a WP at this stage, it's a single entry entrance visa that appears in you passport. On arrival in Germany you need to go to the local Labour Office ASAP and they'll put the WP in, actually a residence permit for 50 Euros. This office will have all the details, that's what must have been happening during the previous 20 weeks......
I'd say applying 8 days before hand is optimism extreme, these German Officials are sllllooowwwwwww....
As can been seen above, it won't actually effect processing times, they'll just date the visa as they see fit, ie about a week after they process it.
HTH
Steve
