Financial Requirement for Inviting a Person (Verpflichtungserklärung)

 Context

An invitation letter is needed to bring friends/relatives to Germany for family visit purpose. Also somebody living in Germany can sponsor for student visa, in this case the student doesn't have to open a blocked account with 10,332€.

But the question is what is the financial requirement to sponsor somebody? The official page doesn't tell anything concrete about the money. Gathered the following information during a visit to auslandsamt.
 
Please also note that it may vary case to case and also depends on the auslandsamt officer. This gives a rough estimate of how much income is needed.
 

Schengen visa (less than 90 days)

Typically to invite friends/family members for a 3 month visit.

Assumption: The host is living in a rented home, married and has a child invites two person.

Requirement: 
   3446.84€ net income per month.
  OR 7500€ in bank account (just show them the current balance, temporarily borrowing money from friends also works).

 

Student visa (longer than 90 days)

Assumption: Host is the only earning person, living in a rented home and sponsoring one student.
 
Requirement: 
 
Host Net Income (pm)
Single 2666.4€
Married 3265.8€
With one kid 3505.0€
With two kids 3692.6€




Last updated: 21-Jul-2021, 23:30 CET

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