The new digital platform aims to help people interested in working, studying or joining a family in Germany and is available to applicants from all over the world.
Germany's foreign ministry has launched a new digital platform for visa applications, with its foreign minister Annalena Bierbock calling it “a real administrative revolution”. .
digital portal, Available hereThe aim is to facilitate access to necessary documents for those who wish to work, study or join their families in Germany. Applicants can choose between 28 categories of national visas online.
The new portal is available from January 1, 2025 in all 167 German visa offices around the world.
Overhauling the visa process
German Foreign Minister Annalena Bierbock praised the new system, saying the reform was “long overdue.”
“Every year, there is a shortage of at least 400,000 skilled workers in Germany,” said Bierbock.
“In times like these, we cannot stop doing the best we can to come here and roll up their sleeves because of long paper applications and even longer waiting periods,” he added.
He said: “From now on, it will provide 167 available, digital services to Germany visa departments worldwide Over the past two-and-a-half years, through a comprehensive and long-term structural reform, we have paved the way and completely overhauled the old visa process. We are now finally bringing Europe's most modern immigration law into the digital age.
The online visa application process is a real administrative revolution that both craft businesses and large companies have been calling for for a long time. It will strengthen Germany as a business location.”