Hello,
I have been on this Forum before for a visa/work permit question but unfortunately I lost my password and can’t get it back since I don’t have that Email Adress anymore.
This was my thread back then
I summarize my situations real quick again: I am 28 years old and live in Germany. I visited Indonesia in early 2020 before Covid to meet a woman. I have known her long before and the only reason for my trip there was to find out if we really want to marry.
I came back from Indonesia shortly before all the borders closed in early 2020 and we thought “okay, let’s just wait until everything is normal again“.
During the waiting time of more than one year now, we changed our plan a little bit. We initially wanted to live in Germany but during my waiting time here I figured out that it’s better for our marriage if we live in Indonesia.
since nothing happened for more than 15 months now we decided to stop waiting and find other ways of finding together finally.
It seems that the options are:
We wait until Indonesia issues marriage visas again and I go the normal path to obtain my Kitas. But meanwhile I lost my hope that they ever open again.
In April 2020 they said the border will be closed until September, then they extended it until end of 2020, then a couple of times for 2 more weeks. Now it’s just closed without any information given.
We marry in Germany and move later to Indonesia. As far as I’m informed even Germany is being closed now. The other problem was that she would have to take a German language test for the visa in an institute in Surabaya, Jakarta or Bandung which all 3 were closed for like a year. Now they have allegedly opened again.
Would it be possible to marry in a third country where we both would be allowed to enter (like Turkey) and marry in an Indonesian embassy? Then I could maybe apply for the Kitas since we are officially married?
We are both very sad because we have been waiting for so long now. We waited and waited.
Is there any way that we can marry and live (preferably) in Indonesia? I want to avoid bringing her to Germany because she would not feel comfortable here.
Is there any good solution or hope in sight?
I hope anyone has advice for me.
I kept this all very short to not bore you, but I can answer more detailed to specific questions
makassi
I have been on this Forum before for a visa/work permit question but unfortunately I lost my password and can’t get it back since I don’t have that Email Adress anymore.
This was my thread back then
I summarize my situations real quick again: I am 28 years old and live in Germany. I visited Indonesia in early 2020 before Covid to meet a woman. I have known her long before and the only reason for my trip there was to find out if we really want to marry.
I came back from Indonesia shortly before all the borders closed in early 2020 and we thought “okay, let’s just wait until everything is normal again“.
During the waiting time of more than one year now, we changed our plan a little bit. We initially wanted to live in Germany but during my waiting time here I figured out that it’s better for our marriage if we live in Indonesia.
since nothing happened for more than 15 months now we decided to stop waiting and find other ways of finding together finally.
It seems that the options are:
We wait until Indonesia issues marriage visas again and I go the normal path to obtain my Kitas. But meanwhile I lost my hope that they ever open again.
In April 2020 they said the border will be closed until September, then they extended it until end of 2020, then a couple of times for 2 more weeks. Now it’s just closed without any information given.
We marry in Germany and move later to Indonesia. As far as I’m informed even Germany is being closed now. The other problem was that she would have to take a German language test for the visa in an institute in Surabaya, Jakarta or Bandung which all 3 were closed for like a year. Now they have allegedly opened again.
Would it be possible to marry in a third country where we both would be allowed to enter (like Turkey) and marry in an Indonesian embassy? Then I could maybe apply for the Kitas since we are officially married?
We are both very sad because we have been waiting for so long now. We waited and waited.
Is there any way that we can marry and live (preferably) in Indonesia? I want to avoid bringing her to Germany because she would not feel comfortable here.
Is there any good solution or hope in sight?
I hope anyone has advice for me.
I kept this all very short to not bore you, but I can answer more detailed to specific questions
makassi
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