Family reunification

@dhpsrn31 is your spouse Eu national or non eu

Non eu

My husband status has changed also for the need of extra documents. can anyone who is in this situation explain the process? how they reach tou via email or phone? how many days have passed after the submission of documents ?  thanks in advance

@dhpsrn31 oky then it took overall 3 to 3.5 months to get your final decision. 

i have applied in August and i am still waiting

They have sent additional

extra info1 :     Lorsqu'un dossier est encore en traitement ou s'il n'est pas encore traité parce qu'en attente des documents étayant la demande visa envoyés par valise diplomatique, la date indiquée est la date d'enregistrement de la demande de visa par l'OE.

extra info 2 :La décision est en principe envoyée le jour où elle est prise. Un délai de quelques jours peut cependant s'écouler avant sa réception effective par le poste diplomatique ou consulaire.

Did u receive anything like this?

@dhpsrn31 this is standard info .. i have have the same .. the decison column is matters

So.. is it not that they require any additional document? Can the status change without any additional document?

@dhpsrn31

Hello my husband applied on May 10 and his visa status changed to " in behandeling" in June 20. Since then he is also waiting. If you are lucky than in 3 months if not than you have to wait just like him. And i am a non-eu. Thanks.

@Nayan Lama

its a very long time.. Did they ask for any additional documents?

Hello, any August updates files??

@patkanjeri still waiting ..

@dhpsrn31

Nothing yet. I will update as soon as get some news. Good luck.

@dambada  Hello, the immigration office also requested additional documents for my wife and they requested the necessary documents through VFS (e-mail). There are some ridiculous situations at this point...

-We had already delivered 90% of these documents (myrent was missing, but this was not requested by VFS)

-We have family insurance here in Belgium but still asked for travel insurance

-Although all the documents are available as PDFs, they do not want us to send them by e-mail or upload them to a portal. My wife changed city just to deliver 3-4 pages of documents, and additional expenses were incurred.

You have to deliver the additional documents in 3 weeks. We delivered 2 days ago, almost a week after receiving the e-mail.

Thanks for detailed information. How many days after the notification of the request for additional documents did you receive the mail? No one has reached us yet. We did not have a rental agreement when we applied for the visa, we sent it by mail later, but my husband does not have a hard copy. It is very interesting that they did not request a rental agreement from you.

2 days after the decision (13/11 decision regarding the additional documents, 15/11 e-mail from VFS and 22/11 submission of the additional documents).

Please check with the owner of your apartment, they should upload the rental agreement on myrent ([link under review]) and you should also open an account. So that you will receive an official/registered copy of your agreement. I believe the immigration office will be able to see your rental agreement officially once it is uploaded on that portal, as a way to avoid any fraud or misinformation.

@Turker Baran

my landlord registered rental contract and sent me offical myrent document. So immigration office can able to see the document even if we dont present it?  thank you by the way all the info

@dambada No problem! Yes, this is my assumption

My timeline with belgium citizen

21th june 23 submitted of visa

20th july 23 register in website

12th October 23 Awaiting receipt of documents supporting the visa application sent by the Belgian.

22 November 23 Visa Approved.

FYI: I was not asked for additional documents.

@Tessy14 congratulations 👏👏👏

@Hunny Bini

Thank you

@Turker Baran

but how can we open an account before getting RP

@Tessy14

congratulations 🥳

@dalvirsandy123 Thank you

    2 days after the decision (13/11 decision regarding the additional documents, 15/11 e-mail from VFS and 22/11 submission of the additional documents).Please check with the owner of your apartment, they should upload the rental agreement on myrent ([link under review]) and you should also open an account. So that you will receive an official/registered copy of your agreement. I believe the immigration office will be able to see your rental agreement officially once it is uploaded on that portal, as a way to avoid any fraud or misinformation.        -@Turker Baran

Dear all, here is my update on my wife's family reunification application on 30/05.  After the 13/11 decision regarding the additional documents, the 15/11 e-mail from VFS, and the 22/11 submission of the additional documents, we received an email from VFS on 24/11 stating that we could collect the passport. That's to say, our passport with the visa was already in the country when we submitted the additional documents. Yet nobody told us about it, my wife had to travel between two cities twice on close dates. Later, Finally, she has the visa

Second, if that is a common practice, the process in the consulate was 4-5 months long in a shocking way and the immigration office was only a month!!! Besides the immigration office, the operation in the consulate and VFS felt unprofessional and the communication skills of the staff were poor.

@dhpsrn31 You can open the account after you have the F card. You will use a card reader and a mobile app during this process.

@Turker Baran That means technically it was processed in belgium only for 1month but to get there it took ages?

@SkanB Sadly, that's correct.

@Tessy14

What do you mean you don't have to submit additional files? How did the status changed even without additional documents submission?

Because my status also changed to awaiting receipt yesterday. So i am confused. Can you pleade explain.

Hello good day everybody, please I have been living in antwerp since August ending and I register as a new commer with my family 👪 and the police have checked and I was given till juanary ending 2024 for the collection of orange card before I can start working.  I don't understand why it will take 6 months before I can start working and I have a wife and sons to take care of. Please I  want to know if it is normal after police check to have an appointment of 2 months for the collection of an orange card.

Any updates of august files??

@patkanjeri not yet .. still waiting

@Nayan Lama

They did not request for any additional documents from me after updating awaiting additional documents. My visa was approved last week.

Any update of August files ??

Can i ask anyone who got their visa exceptionally fast, i do see 6 month as common average but is there anyone who got it early, Also to point out 6 month itself violates medical and criminal certificates as they are not considered if they are 6 month and older so it is weird to see them mentioning 9 months on sites and processing these visa so late, Within belgium it will be a big issue on social welfare and taxation if looked in properly

@Hunny Bini

Not on my part (August application, September registration).

I wonder if governments will ever use Artificial Intelligence to do these kind of filters. This waiting is pure torture.

@Hunny Bini

Not on my part, unfortunately (non-EU, application in August, registration in September).

I wonder if governments will ever use Artificial Intelligence to speed-up these processes. The waiting has been pure torture.

@Alias_23 oky on which date of August ?? you apply visa ?

@Alias_23 seriously it is like a torture..

i have applied on 11-August

Reg in mid sep

now just waiting waiting 

@Hunny Bini

you can contact the immigration by calling or send an email to check the status

Hii … i think you guys are still okay ..  There are few like me who applied in feb 2023 and still waiting .  don’t even know the reason of delay .. i dont know what to do .