I currently have a multi-entry schengen visa that is valid until 02/10/2022. And also I have a student visa that is valid from 01/10/2022. Is it possible, if I leave Germany on 29/09/2022 and go to Doha, then return to Germany on 01/10/2022 the day when my student visa is valid? Or should I wait in Doha until my multi-entry schengen visa expired? Please help me, I‘m so confused right now

Hi, I am not sure why you are confused - you have a whole new visa valid from 1 October 2022? Why not just enter on that visa any time from 1 October? And tell the officer at immigration that you want to enter on that visa. They won't use a visa which is about to expire, I am sure of that. But they may ask you some questions about the multi-entry visa. Don't be confused, the expiring visa should not even be an issue.

Lavandula

What you are describing is so different from the experience that a student from the US, Canada, or anyone from a country eligible for a visa-free 90 days in the Schengen zone would experience. You shouldn’t ask here for advice.

Anyone studying (or working) in the EU would need a visa, no matter which country they're from.

Everybody is welcome to ask for advice here. Everybody, no matter where they are from. Telling someone to go away because they are from somewhere different from others is just wrong.

The procedure for a US student to study in Germany:
1. Enter the country and get the 90 day stamp, I don't remember the previous application part to get approved to stay.
2. Go to the police with matriculation documents from the university to get issued a temporary residence card
3. During the stay in Germany and upon Schengen exit, use the temporary residence card to prove student had a legitimate reason to stay beyond 90 days. There is likely some electronic record in the immigration system also.

There is no interview process required and no trekking off to visa service vendors like VFS Global or a German consulate, at least for Americans, to study in Germany.

The OP seems to have a visa requirement to exit the country by a certain date. Maybe someone here has specific knowledge about what is going on, but I don't.

Editing to add: If gilmoreandmore is currently in Germany, probably best to go to the police and ask what to do. There may be no requirement to leave Germany and a way to roll over from one visa/residency to student visa/residency.

I think rather than going to the police (and in Hessen anyway for a residency permit I think you would go to the Ausländerbehörde of the locality, not the police, who you go to to report your address), the OP should most certainly contact the consulate of the country they come from (the one in Germany) and ask for advice from them in the first instance, or failing that, the German consulate in their home country. There are some countries in Europe where you do have to leave the country to activate the new visa (Spain being one of these). It's been too long since I had to apply for a long-term German visa and I am sure the process has changed, and my experience as an Australian is possibly not helpful for gilmoreandmore anyway. Tom_mn, I appreciate you have a certain experience of obtaining permission to stay, but the OP doesn't seem to have the same (lack of) constraints you had. You must realise that if someone believes they have to go to Doha to validate their visa, then it's on the cards that they may have a different background to you, and as this is an international forum, they have the right to ask this here.

gilmoreandmore, don't worry, you will resolve your problem by just talking to someone in officialdom. It is hard to give you advice (other than, ask someone who can help your specific case) when we don't know your background and your situation. And yes, this board weighs heavily in Fodorites from the US, I myself am in the minority here, so that is where you will get the most expertise, but you might just find a reader who can send you in the right direction for your problem.

Lavandula