Visa drama in the event of a dream wedding: excluded bridal parents from Syria!

Visa drama in the event of a dream wedding: excluded bridal parents from Syria!

A wedding took place in Murnau, which was characterized by great emotion and sadness. Nour and Andreas Hanna-Krahl, a couple who found together through the joint work at the sea rescue organization Sea-Eye 4, gave themselves the yes word. But during the ceremony, the bride's parents shone through absence. The reason: they did not receive a visa for entry to Germany, which Andreas Krahl, a member of the state parliament of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, described as a difficult -to -understand decision by the German authorities.

the bureaucracy and the lack of parents

The couple's in-laws were sitting in the Syrian city of Homs at that time and, together with their daughter, had visited the German messages in Beirut to apply for a tourist visa. However, this was rejected on the last day of the application. The message justified the decision with the assumption that the parents would not return from Germany, which remains incomprehensible to Krahl. "It can hardly be put into words," he said that his wife, who has been living in Germany for years, was excluded from her family.

Krahl criticized the decision as an "incredible" measure and made it clear that all the necessary formalities had been observed. "It makes a big difference whether the in -laws take care of her on the most beautiful day of her daughter or not," he added. Particularly emotional pain came through the fact that the parents could not even personally take part in the ceremony. Instead, the two pairs of parents were forced to get to know each other via digital platforms. This "Bavarian-Syrian family reunification" happened only virtually, which Andreas Krahl found it sad and frustrating.

The reaction of the external office

The Federal Foreign Office reacted to the critical voices regarding the visa rejection by stating that one could not comment on individual cases due to reasons of personal rights. In general, the allocation of a Schengen visa is linked to clear conditions that apply to every applicant. This includes reviews of the travel, financial coverage and willingness to return. Krahl complained about the transparency of the procedure and emphasized that there were other cases in which visas are granted.

Although Krahl had had legal opportunities for intervention as a politician, he saw no reason to use it before rejection of the visas. "We tried everything as part of a regular application process," he said. After the rejection, however, he tried to solve a solution via political channels.

Even the wedding ceremony itself was clouded by these circumstances. The bridal father, who could not come to the wedding, would have skillfully handed over the symbolic act to hand over the daughter to her husband. Instead, her brother had to take on this role, which was very emotional for both sides.

In the social media, Andreas Krahl made the outrage over the visa rejection, where he not only expressed thanks to the message, but also the desire to connect the parents digitally with the wedding party. An unstable internet prevented the couple from organizing a live broadcast for the parents, so they decided to record the ceremony and to provide Arab subtitles.

This underlined again how profoundly the bureaucratic processes can influence people's personal life. The wedding that was intended to celebrate love and new life was affected by the politicians and civil servants by political and legal decisions. It remains to be seen whether any form of positive can grow from this sadness in the future.

For more information, see the current reporting on www.merkur.de .