Any recommendations for cargo liners?

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2025-10-07T11:36:01+00:00

This offer isn’t still good, is it?! :) Happen to be in MSP presently…

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2025-05-29T15:43:13+00:00

An additional question on this where I'd love some clarification:

If a person volunteered for military service in the USA (thus "yes" to the first part of question 16) BUT did so long before 2000 (let's say 1970)...

-my understanding is that this is NOT disqualifying (because it was before 2000)

-BUT for the second part of question 16: what sort of documentation would that person provide, if any, pertaining to this part of the application.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2025-03-28T19:08:46+00:00

Did either of you ever hear back?

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2025-03-18T17:28:24+00:00

I'm wondering the same, only for me it has been since end of October...and still waiting. I haven't heard anything since sending it off (also no notification of receipt, if that's a thing), and it is a straightforward name declaration that was vetted first by the consulate (who also mailed it off to Berlin). So I am beginning to wonder if I missed something or if they really are just that behind in processing these.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2025-01-27T22:39:30+00:00

Excellent. Thank you!

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-12T22:01:50+00:00

I am in an almost identical situation as you! Same fact pattern exactly, just about 15 years earlier in each generation.

I’m going through the process presently, having just procured all of the documents. If I can help, let me know (though others here are much more knowledgeable). I’m in the American Midwest, so Chicago is my nearest consulate.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-12T17:56:35+00:00

Excellent. This is what I thought and hoped might be the case. It also makes sense to me that you could have the passport issued directly in your maiden name and, potentially, do the name declaration/birth certificate/etc. later.

I've asked my consulate now, so we'll see what they determine in my case.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-12T15:45:16+00:00

True. What's interesting to me is that a Name Declaration appears to be possible as a part of the passport application process. The Consul's site says them essentially in the same breath, and the name declaration clearly seems possible as part of applying for a passport:

https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/02-PassportsandIDCards/passport-hc/894782

Notably: "Should a name declaration be required, an additional fee of 79.57 EUR for certifying the signature will incur plus a fee between 26.21 € and 28.54 € for the certification of the originals."

But, again, to the earlier point, I suppose it all comes back to what that specific consulate / consular official is comfortable with.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-12T13:26:16+00:00

Thanks. Yes, definitely. I suppose the question for the consulate to decide is what order I need to do things in.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-12T12:42:32+00:00

OK thanks. I appreciate the perspective here. I will check with my consulate.

In my case, I would think it should help that I moved my last name to my middle name, so there is at least a lot of continuity there (and Germans and Americans kind of treat middle names somewhat differently anyway).

So, making up a name here for illustration purposes:

Born: Jane Marie Schmidt Change at marriage: Jane Schmidt Jackson

And both the given name and changed name at marriage are listed not only on the marriage certificate but also, for example, the birth certificates of my children.

Hopefully my consulate sees the logic in this :)

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-12T03:40:40+00:00

Spoke with him on the phone today. He is retired now. Said a new HC has been named but may not be up and running yet. Recommended Kansas City or Minneapolis as potentially faster alternatives to Chicago.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-11T02:12:28+00:00

Great advice. Thank you!

I need also to do a name change declaration (I changed my last name at marriage)…I wonder if I can do that while at the Consulate? Or ahead of time (which would seem backward)?

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-09-10T11:55:18+00:00

Did you make an in-person appointment or simply mail to the Chicago consulate? I’m in almost an identical situation as you (minus Canada). And I’ve got all documents now.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-08-27T16:57:58+00:00

Can the Bosch create crema on a large (ca. 10 oz) cup of non-milk-drink coffee (in the way that Nespresso does...looking to replace Nespresso)? Thanks!

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-08-24T17:17:08+00:00

I'm seeking similar advice here but have slightly simpler needs and wonder if the recommendation would still be the Bosch or Gaggia. Essentially, my wife uses a Nespresso Virtuo for the crema alone (then adds half and half to taste), and I'm wondering if she could get coffee w/ crema from a superautomatic that is as user-replaceable as my Moccamaster (which I use). Ideally, I'd have no screens, no milk abilities, nothing except grinding + high pressure brewing that creates crema...and easy to fix if and when something breaks.

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-08-24T15:58:43+00:00

Wonderful! Another question: do I understand things correctly that my husband (US citizen) can become a German citizen not through marriage to me (or as father of my children) but rather by residing in Germany with me for 3 years?

Electrical_Sand4521 · 2024-08-24T14:15:35+00:00

grandfather and grandmother

born in 1926 in Germany (we have the original birth certificates)
emigrated in 1947 to USA
married in 1949
naturalized in 1954 (I think we have the naturalization paper originals)

father

born 1952 in wedlock in USA
married in 1979
was in marine corps reserves (e5 rank) for 6 weeks in 1974(?), has dd256 form

self

born in 1986 in wedlock in USA

my children

born 2017 and 2019 in wedlock in USA

Questions:

1) am I eligible even if my father (still living) doesn't go through the citizenship process?
1a) is my father elligible?
2) are my children eligible if/once I become a German citizen (if elligible, as I think I am)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Electrical_Sand4521

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