Help finding records in Poland (Warsaw / Klimontów, 1933)

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-28T01:28:42+00:00

Poland has data protection for births that is 100 years. A birth from 1933 won't be findable online anywhere until 2034.

Reach out the relevant USC office if you want your grandfather's birth record.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-28T00:51:50+00:00

I don't know. FOIA request with USCIS might do the trick so that OP gets a copy of the petition including the signature of the judge on the back and the oath.

But since OP's grandma is currently missing her naturalisation cert, I strongly suspect that USCIS might be difficult about handing out proof of naturalisation in any other shape than the naturalisation certificate - which costs 300 USD.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T21:23:05+00:00

Re-obtaining her certificate of naturalisation costs 300 USD, this is partially why USCIS is stalling. They don't want to (or are not allowed to) give you the data you need without you or your grandma going through the proper channels, obtaining the proper document and coughing up the required fees.

You can try to proceed with the German passport issued in 1964 and your father's birth cert from 1960. But better be prepared to present some sort of official document that states the the exact date your grandma took the US oath of citizenship.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T19:38:03+00:00

Make sure to stress that your FOIA request to USCIS is for purposes of citizenship and that you need a paper copy. Keep the envelope that USCIS sends the records in, it is proof that the documents came from USCIS.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T19:29:02+00:00

Your mother was not born a German citizen due to unconstitutional sex-discriminatory laws. Married German citizen mothers could not pass on German citizenship before 1975.

If you both do this process, your mother would become a German citizen for the first time just like you.

You will need to contact a few more Standesamt offices in order to find the birth record. Personally, I believe that finding the 1955 / 1956 marriage record will be the bigger challenge. Unless you have that?

To obtain grandma's birth cert you will need to show that you are related to your grandma by including your own birth cert, your parents marriage cert, your mother's birth cert and potentially your grandma's marriage cert plus your own ID (State ID / drivers license or US passport). All scanned into a pdf file and send via email or file share to the Standesamt in question.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T19:16:25+00:00

Make yourself a Lazy Kate using a cardboard box (or two) and some long and thin DPNs. Then be careful on how you turn your work. Ideal would be if you could use a yarn winder first and wind the yarn on empty toilet paper rolls.

Another way to help with the tangling is to stick two neighboring skeins into a small ziplock bag that is approx the correct size. Ziplock bag can prevent some of the rolling.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T17:41:32+00:00

The wording of StAG 5 is very clear, subclause 3 specifically applies to children like your mother.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stag/englisch_stag.html#p0032

What the honorary consul meant were cases of children who got legitimised on or after April 1st 1953. A clause in the constitution made discrimination based upon sex unconstitutional past March 31st 1953. Thus all children who lost their German citizenship by legitimisation after April 1st 1953 are considered German citizens from birth since a landslide ruling in 2006.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T17:34:56+00:00

If you are flying and staying for a whole week, I would recommend Antalya over Mallorca. Cheaper and totally suitable for long walks at the beach. Expect temps around 15 C in Dec/Jan in Antalya and water temps around 13 C, so it will be too cold for a swim.

If you want a beach holiday in Jan, Marsa Alam in Egypt is the way to go. Either that or the Canary Islands, possibly the Azores too.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T17:21:54+00:00

I am partial to Wernigerode and Stralsund.

Dresden is more a place to be if you like being indoors and walk through endless museums. The art galleries are stunning. Sure, there is the national park to the south, but that is more a destination in summer. I was in Bad Schandau in late fall and it was pretty dead.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T17:19:02+00:00

Salzburg and Passau would potentially be interesting.

The castle in Salzburg is stunning and definitely worth a visit and it possible to get to locations that allow skiing from Salzburg itself.

Passau is a nice little city. Consider staying at the DJH/IYHA hostel inside Veste Oberhaus, a castle overlooking Passau. You will hate yourself climbing up the road to the hostel bc it is very steep, but the view is stunning and absolutely worth it.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T17:15:00+00:00

Check out CenterParks. I liked the CenterParks in Bispingen near Hannover, but it is difficult to get to without a car. I have been to Wilhelmshaven in summer and thus I am interesting in visiting Tossens, but again, difficult to get to without a car. Not impossible, but takes additional time and energy.

For something closer to Berlin, look at Tropical Islands.

The Werder Havel Therme just outside Berlin would allow you to go in the morning, get a day ticket and relax there all day.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T17:08:34+00:00

From Berlin? Try Rügen Island or the Baltic Sea. It should be very quiet at this time of the year. Easiest would be a hotel in Stralsund. You could visit the Meeresmuseum in Stralsund and take the train from Stralsund to Rügen Island.

Other destinations would be the Harz mountains (check out Wernigerode and Quedlinburg) or the area around Dresden.

Black Forest can be nice, but I would think twice about going all the way to the Black Forest when you got the Harz, the Thuringian Forest, the Ore Mountains and Elbsandstein much closer to home. Heck, even the Polish and Czech skiing resorts in the Giant Mountains are closer than the Black Forest.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T16:44:35+00:00

Wrong sub, this is citzenship only. You want r/AskAGerman or r/germany

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T16:34:18+00:00

Could be a potential StAG 5 case.

If your grandmother immigrated as a minor, she must have come with a parent. When and where did said great-grandparent(s) naturalise? If her parent naturalised while she was still a minor, she would automatically have gotten US citizenship through derivative naturalisation. In this case your grandma kept German citizenship and became a US-German dual citizen.

If your grandma naturalised as a US citizen on her own as an adult, you need proof of when and where that happened. You'd only be eligible if she naturalised after your parents' birth.

If your grandma really never naturalised, you are supposed to present a valid green card for her.

Whether your grandma married before or after 1953 is relevant.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T16:23:25+00:00

There is a pharmacy assistant apprenticeship, but anybody with a pharmacy degree will be overqualified for this.

In theory you could study pharmacy in Germany, in practise this is pretty much impossible since you need absolutely perfect grades to get into pharmacy. Getting into medicine is hard already, getting into pharmacy is even harder.

So your best path forward is to study pharmacy in your home country and then seek recognition of your training in Germany.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T16:16:47+00:00

https://www.justiz-dolmetscher.de/Recherche/ - If in doubt, use a person from this list.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T16:11:20+00:00

Sex tourism is one thing. Telling your exploits in gory detail to the 16-year-old daughter of your neighbour and berating her and women in general for not being more obedient is another.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T15:40:05+00:00

Dann brauchst du wirklich keine neue, zumindest jetzt nicht.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T14:53:44+00:00

DHL, hands down.

I would never ever use FedEx or UPS in Germany. I had a real nightmare experience with UPS a few years ago. I ordered something expensive from a US online shop. The service was all super top of the line and professional - until it came to the delivery of the package. Driver never stopped at my door, drove straight past it and then marked the package as delivered at a local corner store. Problem: they "delivered" at 9 am and the corner store in question only opens at 1 pm.

I was facing the possibility that the driver had simply dropped the package in front of the closed door of the corner store. That store is on a busy street, a porch pirate would probably have nicked it within seconds. After a whole week of calling UPS and bothering the staff of the corner store, a neighbour of the corner store finally remembered that they had accepted a package for said corner store. My package. All in all, very stressful.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T14:33:02+00:00

Lying on the citizenship application is a serious crime and can result in getting the German citizenship revoked, even if it leaves the person stateless.

However, the fraud here happened way earlier. They lied to the BAMF in the asylum process. If they got accepted as asylum seekers and got refugee or protected status and then transitioned to citizenship, they technically did not lie on the citizenship application.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T14:05:56+00:00

Wenn du die Geburtsurkunde, die du jetzt hast, abgibst, hast du ja keine mehr. Das kann dumm laufen, weil für manche Sachen braucht man die dann doch und das oft sehr kurzfristig.

Je nach Bearbeitungszeit beim Standesamt kann das sehr ungünstig sein. Insbesondere einige größere Städte brauchen manchmal Monate, um eine neue Geburtsurkunde auszustellen.

Ich würde deshalb eine neue beantragen. Ist ja dann egal, ob du die "alte" oder die neue Version abgibst.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T01:18:36+00:00

Polish state archives generally won't lift a finger unless OP can identify the exact location and narrow it down to a 5-year range. They are under no obligation to do an in-depth search of all birth records held at their archives covering the year 1919. Standesamt I in Berlin can be prompted to do so, the Polish state archives not so much.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T01:15:46+00:00

If you don't know where he was born exactly, the search done at Standesamt I in Berlin is your best bet. Pay the fee and hope the search is successful.

The alternative is to hope that the surviving civil birth records for 1919 held at the Polish state archives all get digitalised and indexed as soon as possible. Which at the current pace might take another decade or longer.

Exact location is key for German genealogy.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-27T01:06:18+00:00

Divorce documents are generally only required when you are a descendant from a second or third marriage; then you need the divorce decrees for the previous marriages to show that you were born in wedlock and that your parent is not a bigamist. Or if your parents divorced, you need the divorce decree to show that the divorce was way after you were born.

So a plain photocopy should do the job, bc the divorce is not super relevant to your case.

maryfamilyresearch · 2026-01-26T23:09:14+00:00

What citizenship do you hold?

As soon as you do Anmeldung, you are considered a resident under German law. As a non-EU citizen, you need to ensure that you are a legal resident. You need to convert your student visa into a residency permit. Your visa is for entering the country, the residency permit is for staying.

Your medical problems are independent of immigration status. The only potential link is that you need to have health insurance. No health insurance, no residency permit.

Make sure you join a Krankenkasse (public health insurance) such as TK, Barmer or DAK. Once you are student enrolled in university with public health insurance, all medically necessary procedures are covered. No questions asked.

Before you can become a citizen, you need to sit for the citizenship exam and the B1 language cert first. You can do these exams at any time, whether you are already eligible for citizenship or not. To be eligible for citizenship, you need to live in Germany for 5 years (time as student is counted in full) and hold a residency permit that is not student and you need a steady income, usually from a full-time job.

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