The German Foreign Ministry is rapidly accelerating visa procedures for the skilled workers needed for the economy, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said at a Greens party gathering in Berlin on Tuesday. The waiting time for a visa at the German embassy in New Delhi had been cut to two weeks, Baerbock said. “Previously, it was nine months,” she added, attributing the change to digitalization and centralization. The ministry aims to digitalize the entire visa procedure by the end of the current legislative period next year. The number of national visas issued would have to rise by 63% accordi…