Month: May 2025

National visa in Moscow

The visa was issued in 7 working days after submitting the documents. We had prepared a complete and competently executed package. But, as often happens, the staff of Visametrics wanted to make their own "corrections" and came up with a new vision of a blockchain for applicants.

Important: always check exactly what the paperwork states to avoid surprises.

Bottom line: the visa was approved on the originally submitted package, with no adjustments or additions.

Student residence permit in Germany, entry from Ukraine without a visa

A student entered Germany in the second half of March. She rented temporary accommodation for 2 weeks, during this time a permanent residence was successfully found and a propiska was made. Immediately after we submitted the full package of documents to the migration service, we did not forget to attach a reference to the documents that confirm the right to visa-free entry for long-term stay (yes, yes, there were cases when the Abkhaz simply did not know about it and turned the students around).

After only 2 weeks, I got a reply. We were given a date to submit the prints and pay the fee. On Monday our student received her student residence permit for 2 years.

The work permit is directly related to the paragraph of the Residence Act under which you are granted a visa or residence permit.

University, Stüdienkolleg and language courses as part of pre-university training (§16b AufenthG)

• You are allowed to work up to 140 days per calendar year.
• Work under university structures, e.g. as a research assistant (HiWi) is not counted in this limit.
• Counting workdays under two models: 8 hours - full-time (4 hours - half-time) OR 2.5 days for a 20-hour workweek.
• Working up to 40 hours per week during semester breaks counts as 2.5 days.

! Don't confuse work authorization with a limit of 20 hours per week during the semester and 40 hours per week during vacations - these are restrictions related to Social Security and the ability to stay on a student's health insurance plan.

Isolated language course (§16f AufenthG)

• You are allowed to work up to 20 hours per week during the course.

Applicants - usually students with an invitation to take the entrance exam (§17 AufenthG) are granted this visa.

• Authorized to work up to 20 hours per week.