A German citizenship application is decided on documents. Most of the work is finding them, proving that they connect, and presenting them in the form the German authority requires.
We search for the records a family line needs, in Germany and in the Americas: civil registers, parish books, emigration lists, passenger records, consular registers, naturalization files. Where a record does not exist, we look for what can stand in its place.
The line is documented birth by birth, from the German ancestor down to the applicant, so that each link is proved rather than asserted. Gaps are identified early, while there is still time to work on them.
The Staatsangehörigkeitsausweis is the document that establishes that someone is a German citizen. We prepare and file the application with the Bundesverwaltungsamt and follow it through.
Applications under Article 116 (2) of the Basic Law and under §§ 5 and 15 StAG, including the historical research needed to establish the deprivation of citizenship and its ground.
Foreign documents must reach the German authority in German, translated by a sworn translator, and often apostilled. We coordinate that work and check the result before it goes into the file.
Once citizenship is recognized, births and marriages that took place abroad can be entered in the German register at Standesamt I in Berlin. We prepare and file those applications.
German law often requires a declaration on the surname after citizenship is confirmed, particularly where foreign naming rules differ. We prepare it.
With citizenship recognized, we help you assemble what the German consulate requires for a first passport or identity card, and explain how the appointment works.
Administrative fees, archive fees and register fees in Germany are paid from Germany, so you do not need an account there or an international transfer for every small charge.
Documents from files of this office, with personal data blacked out. Each one is the instrument that its own procedure ends in, and not an illustration chosen for effect.
Where a file turns on a question of German nationality law, which provision applies, whether a loss occurred in 1908, whether a declaration under § 5 StAG is still open, that question is examined by Fabio Werlang, a European lawyer admitted in Portugal and Brazil. Any submission to the German authority that argues a point of law is his work.
The company does the document work around it: the research, the records, the translations, the filing and the follow-up.
Who does what, in detailTell us about your German ancestor. We will look at what records your family line would require and whether those records can be reconstructed, and we will tell you what the next step would be.
The form opens on an external service (ClickUp), which is where our case files are kept. There is no charge for the document review.
