Call for help to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Man from Böbing fights for visa for pregnant wife

Created: 01/09/2023 08:02

By: Theresa Kuchler

Wahed Yawari stood in front of the Foreign Ministry in Berlin for one day and one night with his call for help.

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Wahed Yawari from Afghanistan is a German citizen.

After the Taliban took power, his wife was able to flee to Pakistan – now she is pregnant and Yawari is doing everything to get her as soon as possible.

Böbing – Wahed Yawari's eyes look a little tired as he sits down at the table in Böbing to talk to the local newspaper.

Just a few hours ago, the 24-year-old, who was born in Afghanistan and has had a German ID card since mid-November, was standing in front of the Foreign Ministry in Berlin.

He wooed politicians with a large poster.

The call for help, addressed directly to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, was written in black letters on a white banner: "My wife had to flee from the Taliban to Pakistan.

She is 6 months pregnant.

I demand a visa for my wife so that our child can be born in Germany.”

One day and one night in Berlin: father-to-be camping in front of the Foreign Ministry

For a day and a night, Yawari had fought his way through the capital with the appeal.

Actually, the plan was to camp longer, he says.

But the poster was stolen from him on the first night, and many MPs were absent due to the Christmas holidays.

Resigned, Yawari got back on the train home.

Here he now wants to continue fighting to ensure that his Afghan wife Farzana Gul Emani, who has lived in Pakistan since the Taliban took power, can come to him.

The 23-year-old was able to flee her home country at the last minute and stay with relatives.

Yawari, who came to Germany in 2014, did his high school diploma here and works as a metal construction worker, visited her during his summer vacation.

Now the two are expecting a child together.

On the embassy waiting list - it takes months to make an appointment

They get support from Johann Bründl and Elisabeth Müller.

The couple from Böbing, who have been doing integration work in the Rottenbuch "Ammermühle" for years, have tried, among other things, to get an appointment at the embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

The goal is to get a visa for the pregnant Farzana Gul Emani there – as quickly as possible.

But the situation doesn't look good.

"So far we only have an appointment registration number," says Bründl.

"We're somewhere on the waiting list." According to Böbinger, it could take up to a year before you're offered an appointment and the visa is issued.

If the child is born in Pakistan, however, the situation for the family would become extremely difficult.

German father wants to bring mother and child to him before the birth

Yawari and the Böbinger couple would like the entire procedure to go faster.

After all, Yawari's case is not a "classic family reunification," as they say, because the 24-year-old has German citizenship.

The child will also automatically have German citizenship, no matter where it is born, says Bründl.

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By driving to the State Department, Yawari wanted to speed things up and meet politicians pulling the triggers.

He had previously described the situation to Annalena Baerbock in a personal email, asked for help and announced his visit to Berlin.

He also sent an e-mail to the Bundestag committee of the Federal Foreign Office.

The answers are still pending.

Yawari says: "I don't want to have to tell my child for once that I didn't try everything."

Only recently a man from Schongau fought for his Filipino family's right to stay.

He was able to achieve success.