I’m an Australian PhD student and I’ve been offered a 6 month fellowship to visit and conduct research in Germany, but narrowing down the specific visa for my circumstances has been pretty difficult (and I can’t workout if I need one in the first place).
I won’t be taking any subjects but I will be conducting research as part of a lab, and I will be paid a tax-free scholarship from the German host university across this period. I can enter Germany without a visa but I’m worried that I won’t be able to start researching until I have one, but at the same time I read on here that since I am on a scholarship/stipendium rather than a salary that I would be considered a student?
I contacted the German embassy and they pointed me to [this website](https://australien.diplo.de/au-en/service/01-visa/student-visa/2073728#:~:text=and%20further%20information-,General%20information,at%20the%20local%20immigration%20authority) which doesn’t make the situation any clearer imo. I guess the main question is am I a visiting student or a visiting researcher? It seems like a small difference but has a pretty big impact on needing a visa or not to begin conducting research
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!visa