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"Note also that there is a minimum required amount (income) that a host/sponsor should meet in order to be approved and it is different from municipality to another. In our case, it was a minimum of 1,200€ monthly net income to host both my parents." - from foxyfolksy.com/formal-obligation-verpflichtungserkarung
– JollyJoker
Commented Nov 11, 2019 at 7:44
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You can actually sign such a letter without such an income but it will not be marked with "Bonität glaubhaft gemacht" and will be worth a lot less. The exact amount also depends on the number of people the sponsor has to support in Germany (if he has family on his own)
– Jan
Commented Nov 11, 2019 at 7:47
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"it is (was?) possible to replace this monthly income requirement with a financial deposit of several thousand Euros" - and in the past it was abused by groups of people pooling their money together, applying one by one, and then transferring the money to the next one. This is why nowadays a full banking history is required, and a large lump sum appearing from nowhere raises a lot of suspicion.
– vsz
Commented Nov 11, 2019 at 12:31
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@vsf: "Deposit" means your sponsor gets it back after you have returned to your home country and shown your passport (with exit stamp) at the embassy. Not sure how your scenario counts as "abuse" in this context. But if you google for Verpflichtungserklärung and Kaution you can easily find out this is actually still possible in some places, so my reply needs an update.
– Jan
Commented Nov 11, 2019 at 13:09
@Jan I think vsz was thinking of a different situation, where you show that you have funds on deposit in your bank account, rather than actually making a deposit with the government that is returned after you leave. In the former case, multiple people could then pass the same funds around between their bank accounts after each one gets their visa. Of course, that can't be done with the type of deposit you're talking about.
– reirab
Commented Nov 12, 2019 at 4:40

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