Has Anyone Applied For Blue Card from Pretoria?

Tip : Remember to follow-up regularly. Better if they know you by name everytime you contact the embassy. In Germany this would be considered nagging, in contrast the embassy sees this that you are still interested and „caring“ .

Why is this an absolute necessity?  You have to understand  the history where it comes from.

Not knowing about it will result in disappointment : 

We had multiple cases , where the applications were lost, misplaced, sitting in post bag behind the administrators for months, etc.

It is due a very old philosophy (background reading):
HIDP - (heterogeneous impulse driven process) is a cultural implicit procedural legacy  that almost all British commonwealth states still has as governmental remnants  (including existing or  past colonies ( not omitting England, Australia, Wales, Scotland).

The SA embassies are known  for not following any fixed ASOP (automated standard operating procedures)(filling it in a form and it runs automatically). 

Instead they follow a HIDP (heterogeneous impulse driven process).

In its extreme it means that „any“ application form case is usually so utterly unique that there can be at least one exception. Hence monitoring progress is meaningless and so there can also be no independent  checks and balances, to track progress or efficiency.

Coincidentally, this inherent philosophy is the main reason why British parliament has still no constitution to this very day and it is also an cultural explanation for why Britain have grievances with EU ASOP that meticulously describes rules and responsibilities that all members have to abide to equally. 

It further explain why “independence”  is understood so much differently on the continent than the isles , because EU demands absolute member equality, vs the isles that beliefs in relative equality (even between its states).

How long to wait change to itlaian permanent Recident  in Germany

abdus198 wrote:

How long to wait change to itlaian permanent Recident  in Germany

This question is off topic to the thread.

And it is a bit nonsensical because to get residency and immigrate to Germany having done so in Italy as a non-EU citizen is a whole new process; it is not at all automatic and just a question of how long it takes but  if and how one qualifies. Usually one will have to line up a job first and get a work visa. And most jobs will require one to know German.