An Academic Assessment Institution created by Germany to check documents is expected to speed up the student visa procedure
Germany’s Ambassador Philipp Ackermann was quoted saying that his country would make “an extra effort” to attract more skilled workers and students from India following the signing of a bilateral migration and mobility agreement recently, reported Hindustan Times.
The Ambassador agreed that Germany was currently taking “too much time”– about four or five months– to process student visa applications and said this was due to the sheer number of applications and the need to weed out fraudulent applications. He added that authorities were focused on cutting the time needed.
It may be pointed out that Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock signed the migration and mobility agreement after a meeting in New Delhi on December 5. The pact will facilitate Indian and German citizens to study, conduct research and work in both countries.
Germany’s Ambassador Philipp Ackermann was quoted saying that his country would make “an extra effort” to attract more skilled workers and students from India following the signing of a bilateral migration and mobility agreement recently
Ackermann said that there would always be a need for skilled workers in Germany “across the board, be it cooks or nurses or IT experts”. He said, “What we’ll see in the coming years is an outreach towards India in order to get Indians and their families coming to Germany and joining our workforce, and we need them.”
He added, “One of the inflation drivers in Germany is the lack of skilled workers and labour, and therefore we will make an extra effort. Our mobility agreement contains the idea that we will be opening up for legal migration to Indian citizens. We have a good diaspora of Indians in Germany, who have a very good reputation.”
As of December 2021, Germany was home to 160,000 Indian passport holders and 43,000 Indian-origin people, and Ackermann said this number is set to grow. Germany also has more than 34,000 Indian students and there has been “exponential growth” in this area, the envoy said.
“Once they [Indian students] finish their studies in Germany, they have a year to find a job. My experience is that they don’t need a month instead then they can stay and work. We are very interested in having the Indian students in Germany,” he said.
An Academic Assessment Institution created by Germany to check documents is expected to speed up the student visa procedure. “We’ll try to reduce the time. We are making huge efforts because we are interested in getting Indian students. But right now, you have to be a little patient,” Ackermann said.
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