Category: Embassies & Consulates
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All procedures (19)
- Certificate of no impediment to marriage (Ehefähigkeitszeugnis) and the exemption route
- German Embassy for Libya: it operates from Tunis — and how to apply
- German Embassy for Sudan: closed — the alternatives and the reunification documents
- German Embassy for Yemen: closed since 2015 — where to apply today
- German Embassy in Algeria: address, hours and booking a visa appointment
- German Embassy in Amman: address, hours and booking a visa appointment
- German Embassy in Baghdad: collection without an appointment and central Iraq only
- German Embassy in Bahrain: Schengen through VFS and national visa channels
- German Embassy in Beirut: two addresses, the visa section in Rabieh and Syrian applicants
- German Embassy in Cairo: address, hours and booking a visa appointment
- German Embassy in Damascus: where Syrians file a visa application now
- German Embassy in Kuwait: two buildings, the visa section in Salmiya and Yemen applicants
- German Embassy in Oman: the three-hour consular window and how to apply
- German Embassy in Qatar: three represented countries and the 59-month rule
- German Embassy in Rabat: TLScontact in three cities and the two-hour consular windows
- German Embassy in Riyadh: the two-and-a-half-hour consular window
- German Embassy in Tunisia: address, hours and booking a visa appointment
- German missions in the UAE: Abu Dhabi, Dubai and where to file a visa application
- Legalising documents for use in Germany: apostille, consular legalisation and document verification
About this section
A page for every German mission in the Arab world — nineteen of them — built from each embassy’s own site on diplo.de rather than second-hand sources. Each page carries the full address, consular and visa opening hours separately, and how appointments are actually booked, which differs sharply between missions: Amman books free through the embassy’s own system, Cairo and Rabat through TLScontact, Manama and Doha through VFS Global. Each page also states the geographic jurisdiction, the detail applicants get wrong most often: Cairo covers residents of Syria, Libya, Yemen and Sudan in defined cases, while Baghdad covers central Iraq only and the north falls to the consulate in Erbil.
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German Embassy for Sudan: closed — the alternatives and the reunification documents
The embassy is closed and the visa section suspended, with other categories referred to Cairo or Addis Ababa. Plus the full family reunification document list, the A1 rule and the translation rules.
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German Embassy for Yemen: closed since 2015 — where to apply today
Closed since 2015 and operating from Amman and Riyadh. Riyadh handles consular matters, Kuwait accepts national visa applications from residents of Yemen, and Muscat and Cairo are alternatives.
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German Embassy for Libya: it operates from Tunis — and how to apply
The German Embassy Tripoli works from Tunis and is responsible for applicants resident in Libya. Your actual routes, the English-only correspondence rule, and the end of remonstration.
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German missions in the UAE: Abu Dhabi, Dubai and where to file a visa application
Every visa application goes to the Consulate General in Dubai, whose visa section has a separate entrance in Jumeirah 1. Addresses, hours and the six-month Emirates ID condition.
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German Embassy in Qatar: three represented countries and the 59-month rule
It covers Germany, Austria and Slovenia, filing runs through VFS Global with the fee due at booking, and anyone fingerprinted within 59 months may not need to attend in person.
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German Embassy in Oman: the three-hour consular window and how to apply
The consular section opens three hours a day and the rest by appointment, and calls run over satellite at higher cost. Address, hours, the visa route and an unresolved official conflict.
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German Embassy in Kuwait: two buildings, the visa section in Salmiya and Yemen applicants
Two different buildings in two districts. Schengen goes through VFS Global, the national visa is filed directly at the visa section — and residents of Yemen may apply here too.
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German Embassy in Bahrain: Schengen through VFS and national visa channels
It issues Schengen visas on behalf of nine countries, and every application goes to the VFS Global centre. The application window, and why your passport stays until the process ends.
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German Embassy in Riyadh: the two-and-a-half-hour consular window
Consular matters are received until eleven only, though the embassy works until half past three — and visa applications require an appointment booked through the official site.
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German Embassy in Rabat: TLScontact in three cities and the two-hour consular windows
Schengen goes to TLScontact in three cities, so no trip to the capital is needed. The embassy’s consular windows are two morning hours, by appointment — with two exception days.
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German Embassy in Baghdad: collection without an appointment and central Iraq only
Passport and visa collection needs no appointment, in an afternoon window. But the consular district covers central Iraq only — the north belongs to the Consulate General in Erbil.
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German Embassy in Damascus: where Syrians file a visa application now
Applications from residents of Syria now go to Amman, Beirut or Erbil. What happens to an old appointment, why nothing is transferred between missions, and the conflict between two official pages.