The Visa Warning File (VWD) supports authorities in issuing visas. This includes the German missions abroad. It supports foreigners authorities in the examination of declarations of commitment.

If you would like to know whether and what information the Visa Warning File stores about your organization, the Federal Office of Administration will provide you with information. To do so, you must submit an application.

The Visa Warning File stores information about an organization if persons have acted on its behalf and have

• act as an inviter, obligor or reference person in the visa procedure and thereby
  • have made false statements or
  • have not fulfilled their obligations when claimed, or
• have voluntarily allowed their data to be stored if, for example, there is suspicion that statements have been made under their name in visa procedures without permission.

The data that the Visa Warning File stores on organizations include:

• Name of the organization
• Address
• Registered office
• Mission or field of activity
• the name and location of the register in which the organization is registered, as well as the register number
• the reason for the storage
• the visa warning file number of the Federal Office of Administration
• If a person acts on behalf of an organization, the data of the person is also stored in the WVD for the organization.

The application data is stored, depending on the decision (positive, negative), up to 10 years.