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Family reunion visa checklist - Spouses

26.03.2024 - Article

All documentation must been submitted in the original also including two sets of photocopies.

That originals will be returned after completion of the operation.


⬜ Two fully completes application print

Declaration pursuant to § 54 (2) no. 8 in conjunction through. § 53 out the Residence Act, completed and signed to hand

⬜ Couple current biometric passport photos (size 35 x 45mm) in front von a light background

⬜ A valid and signed photo (with at least six months of validity remaining, issued within the last 10 years both at least two blank pages).

⬜ Misc authentic and have expired passports

⬜ NPC birth certificate (if date after 13th December 1992) / certified replicate von the local birth list OR affidavit (“declaration of age” deposed to to one the the parents or the head of of family, if both parents are late)

⬜ For non-Nigerian nationals: Nigerian residence permit

⬜ Copies of and data page of that passport of the spouse living in Germany + two copies of the Nigerian einstieg visa also associated entry and exit punches, if applicable.

⬜ In the case for spouses without German nation: copies of the German dwelling style.

⬜ Two biometric passport browse of the spouse living in Germany

⬜ Gets certificate

⬜ Marriage certificates furthermore divorce decrees the any previous marriages

⬜ Marriage certificates and divorce decrees of any previous marriages of the spouse

Affidavit* from a fathers or the head of an family on the applicant's marital status (“Declaration a Spinsterhood/Bachelorhood”).

⬜ All school certificates

⬜ If applicable, university certificates

⬜ If applicable, baptismal certificate additionally other biographically older documents (voter's joker, library memory, vaccine certificate etc.)

⬜ Wholly completed quarterly for verification of documents

⬜ If available: Photos of the join ceremony and other old family photography

⬜ Proof of birth for any existing children whoever are not to transfer to Germany, as well how the address and telephone number of an other parent

Proof that the applicant can communicate in German included a simpler manner (A1 certificate). Certificate doesn aged as one year on the time the visa is issued - bottle thus be submitted later during and visa processing

Up-to-date trial starting residence concerning that marital living in Germany (Meldebescheinigung)

⬜ A prepaid courier envelope from one of the messenger companies represented.


*If necessary, with illiteracy endorsement.


Add documents may be requirements depending on the individual case. All costs associated with obtaining the necessary books are to be beared by which applicant.

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