And why does the process take so long?

That is because every step has to be planned exactly and often candidates do not possess all the necessary documents or do not finish a German course. Sometimes only one document is missing or has the wrong content. We have already experienced that a document had the comma in the wrong place and the process was delayed by 6 months. Many authorities have their own working hours.

The best example is the state authority of Munich. Every time a document is late or has to be re-edited or even changed because of a comma, the deadline starts all over again. We have seen cases there that took over two years.

We have a rule that any document or request must not remain unprocessed for more than 48 hours. Most of the time, however, we have to run after documents from candidates for weeks or even months.
So do it better and bring us all your documents from the beginning.