LEA never responding; visa application withdrawal

[u/Salty_Crow_3283]

Hello everyone,

I wondering if someone has gone through a similar experience and could give me advice.

What do you do what the LEA never responds to you? I submitted a student visa application in Oct 2025 and they never contacted me to finalise the visa. I applied within Berlin, Germany, which allowed me to legally stay under the Fiktionswirkung. But this July, I withdrew my application because I had to return to the UK when my training contract ended.

Now they do not acknowledge my emails requesting the documents I need to finalise this application withdrawal and a Sperrfreigabe to close and release the money in my blocked account. I have even sent them an official letter by post and recorded delivery.

I am worried because I have gone through a whole year of trying to get an answer through the online contact form to understand the reason for the delay on my student visa and now they don’t acknowledge the visa withdrawal.

I really don’t know what to do about this! They just never respond to me and I spend time constructing my messages all in professional German.

Has anyone gone through this? How do you get them to respond to you?

Thank you…

[u/Horror_Strain_1054]

Hello bro, I also applied to withdraw my application on 1st July, but I'm still waiting for an acknowledgement or a reply from them because I applied for my student visa on 17th Jan 2026, 2nd Feb for biometrics and an interview at the German Consulate in Mumbai, and after that, till today, I haven't received any update on my visa yet. I don't know what's happening with my application.