u/Flaky_Diamond7340

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has experienced Australian customs rejecting a Germany bound citizenship declarations document package (addressed to the BVA with customs declaration as citizenship documentation code)?

My documentation package has been "Returned to Sender - item export cancelled due to security risk?"

It has been rejected because one of the documents, a copy of a 1939 Arbeitsbuch has Nazi symbolism. Apparently there is no exemption under Legislation for sending these documents for this purpose.

Anyone else encountered this issue?

I would like any advice or guidance as to whether I have sufficient proof of German for my Munich Agreement collectively naturalised grandfather (Neudorf/Nova Ves, Czechoslovakia).

I have the following documents:
- Born in 1919 in Neudorf/Nova Ves Czechoslovakia, birth register from Czech Archives.

- Birth and Marriage register for G-grandparents (also from the Neudorf/Sudetenland).

- 1921 czech census listing Deutsch for G-grandparents and infant grandparent.

- Meldebögen Spruchkammer listing Sudetenland residence up to 1945. Also lists Wehrmacht service from 1943-1945.

- 1939 Arbeitsbuch listing Staatsangehörigkeit: Deutsches Reich

- Bescheinigung from Landratsamt that he held a Flüchtlingsausweis number ##### issued on dd.mm.1949.

- 1951 Incoming passenger card to Australia that lists him as German.

- Copy of Melderegister which states Staatsangehörigkeit: deutsch. Melderegister also has the registration date of 1939, 1951 deregister with note departing for Australien. Also has reference to "Pers.Ausw. ###### vom dd.mm.1950).

With the above, have I met the BVA's threshold of Proof of German (for a StAG 5 declaration)? It has been a long and slow trail of evidence gathering with one piece of evidence leading to the next search location.

Pending records are Wehrmacht file (12 month wait?) and Australian naturalisation file which should also include German passport number (archive index card lists him as German); but both will take many many months to obtain.