Inviting family members

Sometime you need to bring your family members to join you for some events, like your child's birth or your parents to see you.

For that your family membrs/friends need to get a short term visa, see details
Short Term Visa

Out of which it should be 
Tourist Visa
Visitor's Visa

How to sponsor your family/friends?

From local office (KVR) you need to get a invitation/sponsorship/commitment declaration letter which is called (Verpflichtungserklärung).

To be considered
With your signature, you assume the following obligations for your guest:

• You pay all the costs for his living, which he can not carry himself.
• They pay back all social benefits that the state incurs (for example, for the home and for sickness or long-term care).
• You pay all the costs incurred if the authorities send the guest back to their home country.

Requirements

• If you want to make a commitment, you must come by in person.
• It is not possible for you to authorize another person to do so. The foreigners authority of your main residence is responsible.

Required Documents
 
Hostess or host:

• Valid passport or identity card
• Employees: a current wage or salary statement
• Pensioners: a current pension notice
• Self-employed / freelance : up-to-date tax assessment as well as confirmation from the tax consultant about your profit and loss account (over the past three months). If you do not have a tax consultant, you have to compile an overview of your net profit for the past three months. This must be signed by you.
• Other regular income from leasing and leasing: current tax assessment and current bank statements that include rental and lease income
• from capital gains: current tax assessment and current financial status / securities account statements

Guest from abroad:

• Surname, first name (s)
• Date of birth Place of birth
• nationality
• Residential address in the home country
• Passport number (or copy of passport)
• Date of expected entry / commencement of obligation

 
Note: In individual cases, further documents may be required. 

Particularities

• As a host or host you have to live in Germany. If you have a temporary residence permit for Germany, then this must be longer than the duration of the obligation. In addition, legal persons domiciled in Germany can also make a commitment.
• You must send the letter of commitment (in original) to your guest. The latter must then present the original to the German embassy or consulate in his home country for the visa. He also needs a travel health insurance for Germany. He must present the certificate of insurance in the original. A travel health insurance can be taken abroad or by you in Germany.
• The letter of commitment should not be older than six months if the guest applies for a visa.
• The Schengen visa for visiting purposes is granted for a maximum of 90 days. For this reason, your guest should apply for the visa at the German diplomatic mission for the period he actually wants to spend in Germany. The decision whether to issue a visa is made solely by the German diplomatic mission. For visa questions, please contact them directly.
• The submission of a declaration of commitment in the German diplomatic mission is not mandatory for the issue of a visa. There is also the possibility that the person invited can prove sufficient income or assets in the German mission abroad. We therefore recommend to clarify this in advance.

Charging framework
 
29 Euro

If you have all the conditions for making a commitment, you can take it with you immediately.

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