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u/Latter_Educator8801

▲ 3 r/GermanCitizenship

My husband is applying to declare citizenship through StAG 5 at the German embassy in DC. Below are the documents we’ve collected. Do the U.S. docs need apostilles and translations? What about the EER application form?

  1. Husband’s birth certificate (Virginia)
  2. Husbands marriage certificate (Virginia)
  3. Mother’s birth certificate (Texas)
  4. Mother’s marriage certificate (Virginia)
  5. Grandmother’s birth certificate (Germany)
  6. Grandmother’s marriage certificate (Germany)
  7. Grandmother’s U.S. NARA naturalization certificate
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u/Latter_Educator8801 — 10 days ago
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I know this can greatly vary, but I requested both a 1940 birth record and a 1962 marriage record from the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg standesamt. I live in the US. How long did it take to receive yours?

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u/Latter_Educator8801 — 14 days ago
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It’s a birth stamp on a marriage record. I’m trying to identify the Berlin standesamt where the birth record is located but can’t make out the handwriting. Thanks!

u/Latter_Educator8801 — 15 days ago
▲ 3 r/GermanCitizenship

My husband and I are looking for his grandmother’s birth and marriage records. She was born in Berlin in 1940 - not sure which Standesamt has them.

I requested and paid for a Berlin-wide search for her birth record using the Berlinumlauf portal. On March 24, Standesamt I confirmed via email that they initiated the search and that it could take several months to search all 12 registry offices.

If you’ve been through this, I’m curious:

  1. How long did your search take?

  2. What year were your records from?

Thanks!

u/Latter_Educator8801 — 15 days ago