German Visa Appointment Dataset

The German Visa Appointment Dataset covers information from >16,000 digital requests for visa appointments at German embassies and consulates located in 109 countries worldwide. The core variable is the wait time (in days), calculated as the difference between the date of the request and the date of the closest available appointment date. The data was collected via computational methods as described in the 2025 Political Geography article "A Time Penalty for the Global South? Visa Appointment Wait Times at German Embassies and Consulates Worldwide" by Deutschmann et al. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440).德国签证预约数据集（German Visa Appointment Dataset）涵盖了全球109个国家的德国驻外大使馆及总领事馆的逾1.6万条签证预约线上申请相关信息。该数据集的核心变量为等待时长（单位：天），计算方式为申请日期与可预约的最早场次日期之间的时间差值。本数据集通过Deutschmann等人2025年发表于《Political Geography》期刊的论文《A Time Penalty for the Global South? Visa Appointment Wait Times at German Embassies and Consulates Worldwide》中所述的计算方法采集所得，其DOI链接为https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103440。