Moroccan students had to wait over a year to get a visa appointment to study in Germany

Students from Morocco, Cameroon and India had to wait over a year before getting a visa appointment to study in Germany, wrote DW, quoting a report on Thursday.

The report compiled by the German Ministry of Education and Research suggests that international students wanting to pursue their studies in the European countries faced unusual delays in 2018. It also reports that most of these international students waited for eight months to apply for visa. 

This report comes after the Greens lodged a parliamentary inquiry to question the «discouraging and demotivating» growing wait times.

«Multi-month visa waiting times are unacceptable and have a discouraging and demotivating effect for international talent», Kai Gehring, the Greens' spokesman for research and higher education policy, told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.

For the record, the German government’s latest migration report indicates that there are currently 400,000 foreign students enrolled in German universities.