Dear Sir / Madam, Guten Tag! Thank you for reading this mail. I had applied for a personal tourism visa (application number ******) and had an interview on Nov 22, 2010. On Dec 2, I finally got my passport back along with a refusal letter with the following reason: "2. Der Zweck und die Bedingungen des beabsichtigten Aufenthalts wurden nicht nachgewiesen. 8. Die vorgelegten Informationen uber den Zweck und die Bedingungen des beabsichtigten Aufenthalts waren nicht glaubhaft." I am writing this letter to express the feeling of being hurt, disappointed and, frankly speaking, offended. As a well-educated Chinese citizen who has a decent job, all that I wish is to spend my holiday in Deutschland, the country that I have been dreaming about since I was a teenager. In the past few weeks, I have spent almost all my spare time planning for this trip. If you could spare sometime to take a look at the attachment, you will see that not only a detailed itinerary (hard-copy have been provided in the interview) with transportation timetable that I search in website of Deutsch Bahn and MVV network, I also budgeted the spending of this trip, made a list of attractions as backup, in case I cannot go the planned ones for some unexpected reason, such as bad weather condition, I could still have other choices. I have booked hotels and provided booking confirmation letters from Booking.com as required. I have even paid for the round-trip air-ticket to Deutschland though only reservation is required. Please believe that I want this trip to be perfect more than anyone else. I think you might understand how I feel when being challenged as "not credible" after all these efforts I have made. Somewhat I f...