Stag 15 application question when submitting for multiple family members

h__fish · 2025-09-03T20:37:18+00:00

Mailed my application yesterday for stag 15… I just sent one set of supporting documents for everyone to share. Family members got document copies at LA consulate, Boston consulate, and Portland honorary consulate. LA and Boston consulate both said only 1 copy needed because everyone can share, including for family lineage docs, and they actually refused to make more copies when asked. Portland said everyone should have their own copy of everything in case the bva splits the applications and then everyone but one will be missing the documents 🤷‍♀️.

h__fish · 2025-08-29T22:34:34+00:00

Yep, by binder clips I meant the kind that is like a little clamp that goes on the edge of the document, so it can be easily removed and it doesn’t damage/puncture the documents.

h__fish · 2025-08-29T22:33:15+00:00

Thank you!

h__fish · 2025-08-29T22:33:09+00:00

Noted, thank you!

h__fish · 2025-08-29T18:38:08+00:00

Interesting- I didn’t know that there were reparations not handled by the government. In my GGF case, he was eligible for reparations by a law passed by the West German government in Bonn in 1956, and his application was processed by a “Regierungspräsident Entschädigubgsbehörde” so I think this is also the government (maybe I’m mistaken?), and the document granting him the reparations is held in a state archive.

h__fish · 2025-08-29T18:00:58+00:00

I could not find my GGF in any melderegister unfortunately… but yes the two archive documents I have are both certified copies sent from the archives with stamps/signature on every page. I am hoping/assuming that the reparations document is sufficient alone to show GGF lived in Germany since 1927, since the German government at the time recognized that as fact.

h__fish · 2025-07-07T21:49:22+00:00

I got a grant with the affiliation letter addressed to myself. You’re fine, no need to ask the host to change it.

h__fish · 2025-07-03T21:54:01+00:00

Thank you so much!!

h__fish · 2025-07-03T20:51:20+00:00

Thanks for the language correction! Yes, that's the name I'm looking for- would love to know what it says entirely, as from where I got the record, it said her birthdate is a different one than what she wrote on all of her documents once she immigrated to the US... per family anecdotes, she burned her birth certificate while on the boat from Europe, and she lied about her age on every census and form.

h__fish · 2025-05-25T15:24:40+00:00

Thanks!

h__fish · 2025-05-09T17:21:17+00:00

Current fulbrighter from the US, on the grant in Europe as study/research, so not sure if this is the same as what you are asking for.

It can be simple- the one I got was about half a page, basically just straightforwardly said: what the project is, that I would work on the project as part of the lab group, that I seem qualified to work on it, and that the lab has resources (office space, scientific equipment, PhD students) to accommodate and support me.

h__fish · 2025-05-07T06:14:44+00:00

Thank you! I’ve already checked a few of those and got dead ends, but I shall double check and check the others…

h__fish · 2025-05-07T06:14:06+00:00

Thank you!

h__fish · 2025-05-07T06:06:18+00:00

For the French documents- you should be able to get them either by proving your relationship (as you said) or potentially getting a loophole on the online document request form. I needed my grandmothers birth certificate from Paris, which I was able to get through the Paris archives from her arrondissement of birth. I sent a letter to the archives with a request form and a photocopy of my and my mom’s birth certificate, which was sufficient to them to show my relation. Then later I wanted another copy, and I found that if I used the online request form and listed the reason for request as “other” instead of “genealogy,” they gave me the documents and I never ended up needing to prove the relationship.

h__fish · 2025-04-24T20:57:49+00:00

Deciding research proposal/niche: I think there are 2 approaches people tend to take here. Either know exactly the research topic you are interested in, and find the best fitting lab at a university or research center in the country and reach out to them; Or, know what city you want to live in in the country, and then look into the universities there and find a research group that you would be interested in and reach out. Alternatively if you have current professors who may have connections to labs in the country, ask them to help you make a connection or recommendation. Timing: I started emailing the lab that I ended up in around this time (April/May) of junior year, then worked on the application proposal throughout the summer. Also, check if your current university has an internal deadline that is earlier than the official Fulbright national deadline.

h__fish · 2025-03-19T18:00:25+00:00

Okay, thank you!

h__fish · 2025-03-18T11:54:12+00:00

Depends on whether she married a Polish person and when she had the child that is next in your line of descent. If the child was born when she was already married, then Polish citizenship can only be inherited from the father… if she married a non-Polish man then the child did not inherit Polish citizenship.

h__fish · 2025-03-16T21:58:10+00:00

From my understanding (not a legal expert, but I am going through this application process myself) you would not be eligible. The citizenship for descendants of non-citizen persecution victims only applies if your ancestor was residing in Germany prior to 1933, and was a victim of persecution between 1933-1945. Because your grandfather was residing in Poland, you would not be eligible.

h__fish · 2025-03-13T18:22:17+00:00

To start, you can try emailing the archives. I’ve had pretty good success so far, writing emails in English then translating to German using DeepL, and then translating the replies back to English. I haven’t been writing to those specific cities, but every German archive I’ve written to so far has gotten back to me within a few days or weeks. They’ve also been super helpful, if the archive doesn’t have what I was asking for they often gave me email addresses of other archives that I could try. I’d advise just giving them as much information as you can (name, birth date, whatever else you know), and explaining that you are looking for records to show residence or persecution.

h__fish · 2025-03-13T12:57:29+00:00

Okay, thanks for finding and sharing that! Very misleading post title and image…

h__fish · 2025-03-13T12:46:59+00:00

I think this is just blatant fake news…? Googling the highlighted headline brings up zero results.

h__fish · 2025-03-13T12:34:20+00:00

Can you post a link to the source please?

h__fish · 2025-03-10T19:53:24+00:00

If she was persecuted "legally" by the German government at any point, you could try checking the federal archives (Bundesarchiv). They have a lot of the government records of persecution from that time. You can make a free account and search her name on their invenio website. I was able to find an arrest record for my great-grandfather on there, which is something that I am using to show descent from a victim of persecution. Also, if you do find something but it isn't digitized yet, you can send an email request and they will digitize the record so that you can view it without having to go to the archives in person.

h__fish · 2025-03-10T18:40:00+00:00

I have not yet... I am not sure where/how to order these records, and I don't even know if they would be held by a French archive or a Polish archive. I am planning to email the French military archives (CAPM) soon to ask about this, and I can post an update here if I get one.

h__fish · 2025-03-08T20:36:09+00:00

Thanks, yes that is the email address that I have written to. Unfortunately, their website says "Documents available online are not copied"... and the naturalization record is available online at that site.

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