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Please be informed you have to address your remonstration letter to the Head of Visa section, the German consul of your country of residence if it’s a paper application. But if you choose to send it by email, all you need to do is to visit the embassy website responsible for your country, click, “contact the visa section or consular section”.
Before submitting an appeal make sure you take out enough time to work on improving the areas which they gave as reason(s) for visa refusal. Example, if their reason states “their intention to leave the territory of the member states before the expiry of the visa could not be ascertained”. This means the embassy drew their conclusion on the following point noted from your documents or during your interview. The Embassy has to work out a return prediction. The documents you have submitted or your other information were not sufficient to predict a positive result as far as your intended trip is concerned.
For some time now the visa officers do not have the sole right to make recommendation to issue a visa, they are only allowed to make comments. After your interview, your documents (4 units) are moved from unit to the other and once it gets to HEAD OF DOCUMENTS (4 German staffs are in this role), they write the HEAD OF VISA SECTION asking him to issue you a visa. Unfortunately, a very large percentage of applicants who are refused visa do not get to HEAD OF DOCUMENT table. They are often turned down within section 1-3 of the embassy.
Some of the ways to have a favorable appeal if the earlier mentioned is the reason you were denied includes but not limited to the following.
Many of the appeal letters do not get to the HEAD OF DOCUMENTS. They embassy receives so many emails and some of them are declared “lack of merit on arrival” and as such they terminate it without forwarding it to the next unit. You have 95% chance of getting a visa if your documents get to the head of documents.
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You can appeal, but your appeal may not result in an issuance considering the reason given goes towards either:
It will be quicker, and easier, for you to apply again and this time address the specific concern that was listed as the reason for refusal.
In your case, you need demonstrate that you will return at the end of your visit; normally you demonstrate this by showing ties to the homeland:
So if you are young student with no job going for a visit to Germany, you are at an extremely high risk of default immigration; on the other hand if you are married and holding a steady job, are renting or own a house and are going for a visit - you are less likely to overstay or not return.
Keep in mind that for visa purposes, the officer assumes that you are trying to immigrate illegally, and it is your job to convince them otherwise. This may sound unfair, but this is normally the case for most embassies and visit visas. The problem is exacerbated as you are applying from Pakistan a country that has a history of illegal immigration, falsified documents, etc.