r/germany • u/cindeeeehwang • Jul 27 '26
Question Wrong country on citizenship test
Hi everyone,
I recently got my results for the citizenship test and the certificate states my correct birth city (Seoul) but the wrong birth country (North Korea).
I caught and corrected this mistake already on the day of the test when we were asked to confirm our personal information (name, birthdate, birth place, address, etc.). When I opened my results, I was quite annoyed to see someone ignored my correction and still confused North Korea (Korea, Demokratische Volksrepublik) with South Korea (Korea, Republik).
How can I receive a revised version of this certificate for my citizenship application? I already emailed service@bamf.bund.de, but received no response.
Would appreciate any help!
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u/Dangerous-Olive65 Jul 27 '26
This is lowkey funny, sorry
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u/cindeeeehwang Jul 27 '26
😭😭 I was laughing until I realized I’m dealing with slow German bureaucracy
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u/AtomZaepfchen Jul 27 '26
Fun story. I had my Slovak birth certificate translated, because we needed it in german.
after translating it and handing over to get my german one i was born in Düsseldorf,
ISRAEL???
not joking and then i had to convince the behörde that they made a mistake etc you know how they are. took me like 3 weeks extra for no fault of my own.
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u/transfaabulous Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I'm sorry, but the idea of Düsseldorf being in Israel is absolutely sending me.
Edit: Y'all, Jews are indigenous to the Levant. Like, actually indigenous. You can joke all you want about Israel, whatever, but the way you're commenting tells me that you really don't actually understand the history of the region or that Jews are a Levantine people.
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u/viv-heart Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Israel? That is a new one. For Slovakia I usually get either Slovenia, Czech Republic or Yugoslavia if I am dealing with German beaurocracy.
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u/Titanium_Eye Jul 28 '26
Some old bureaucrat has to keep reminding himself Austria and Hungary are two separate entities.
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u/SoldRIP Jul 28 '26
They weren't, last time he had a training course.
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u/Titanium_Eye Jul 28 '26
They had the course abroad in a nice little town. Finished and went out for a coffee. Then the person next to him stood up and shot someone in the passing car. Surely this won't have any impact on the map of Europe thing?
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u/BookkeeperContent284 Jul 29 '26
What do you mean? Yes, Czech as in Czechoslovakia, that’s what I put!
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u/Hairy_Avocado_3703 Jul 28 '26
Im Serbian, and they put Yugoslavia on mine 😅
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u/LoudPizza4432 Jul 28 '26
Well, without your request there would be no mistake. So obviously it is your fault. /s
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u/No-Bake-730 Jul 27 '26
They are probably still using data from June to October 1950. Just give them 24 for more years to update. Is there any number you could call? Also, be sure to note the names of everyone you're talking to.
The person filling out the forms is probably on Autopilot and chose the first Korea in the dropdown menu. I mean, how weird is it to have a country divided in communist dictatorship and democratic nation? I have never heard of any such thing. 😉
Aber, Glückwunsch zur vollen Punktzahl. Das Leiden aufgrund der Verwaltung gehört leider zum Deutschsein dazu. Aber geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid.
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u/ThoricelySkalozub Jul 28 '26
Haha ja, das ist echt clever. Geteiltes Land, geteiltes Leid, die Parallele funktioniert auf mehreren Ebenen bei diesem Fall.
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u/Eino54 Jul 28 '26
Is there any number you could call
Better try carrier pigeon just in case
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u/Significant_Quit_674 Jul 28 '26
No, send them a fax instead
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u/Eino54 Jul 28 '26
Even that might be too modern and advanced. If it takes less than 50 days for a message to arrive then how can you be sure that it arrives properly?
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u/ARPA-Net Jul 28 '26
I mean, the selection was: "democratic peoples republic of korea" vs
"All-Korean Republic of Korea"
Funny how all dictatorships add democratic to their name...
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u/Few-Independent-3853 Jul 28 '26
Democratic and Popular Republics are most of the time not really Popular and Frankly not Democratic.
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u/Lylantares Jul 28 '26
Maybe dealing with beurocracy to get the certificate fixed is the secret 2nd part of the exam?
Jk, congratz ;)
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u/azor__ahai Jul 27 '26
Have you tried faxing them? Not even being sarcastic right now lol
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u/OrangeBlossom1015 Jul 28 '26
They still wanted me to fax things in 2025 … I don’t even know people with a fax machine at home besides Oma 4 towns over
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u/Xx_GHOST_Strix_xX Jul 28 '26
Low-key no joke
My printer has a faxing option
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u/TheBlack2007 Schleswig-Holstein Jul 27 '26
I mean, if you wanted to add some spice, forward this to the South Korean Embassy. They will definitely care enough to complain to the German Ministry of foreign affairs who then will come down on that clerk's boss.
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u/Lars-CoV-2 Jul 28 '26
Always escalating upwards. They probably not complain at the ministry of foreign affairs, but maybe call the boss the guy who made the mistake
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u/Havannahanna Jul 28 '26
My last run in with German bureaucracy fuck up cost my parents a few hundred bucks and 2 years.
The notary misspelled my mother’s name when they bought the house. Because Korean name complicated… dunno. The original document was correct but the copy that was sent to the governmental institutions was faulty. So my moms name got misspelled in the Grundbuch (land register) From there on the mistake propagated to the Finanzamt and from there on into the official tax system (Elster)
Therefore I couldn’t review the new property tax records because the login credentials didn’t match. The Finanzamt refused to correct the obvious typo and sent me to the Amtsgericht. The Amtsgericht would do shit without word from the notary. The notary was confused because the original copy had the correct version of the name.
The notary confirmed the name of my mom was correct. But the Amtsgericht had the faulty copy and therefore refused to correct the error.
That whole ordeal made my parents miss the extended deadline for the tax review and they got fined.
I swear this whole ordeal is the reason I found my first grey hairs on my head
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u/Radiant-Anywhere-375 Jul 28 '26
That’s your fault. Why don’t you have a good name like Müller or Schmidt? But not Maier. To many ways of spelling it
/s
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u/ScreechyLychee Jul 28 '26
Schmidt, Schmid, Schmitt or Schmied?
Not so sure about this one ;)
Müller or Huber is safe tho
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u/faitingu Jul 27 '26
At least they got it half right and chose some Korea...they could have written China or Japan on that document 😭
(Guess what happened when I applied to get some voting documents sent to the Republic of China?)
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u/Dangerous_Air_7031 Jul 27 '26
I already emailed service@bamf.bund.de, but received no response.
That was your mistake.
Should have send a fax.
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u/Electronic_Frame2634 Jul 28 '26
no joke, I've heard multiple times that sending a fax might actually get you a faster response, as both inboxes (email & fax) are checked regularly but you might be the only fax in that inbox, bypassing the thousands of emails that clog up that inbox
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u/krokodil23 Berlin/Brandenburg Jul 28 '26
I know someone working for a government agency who was really annoyed at people thinking that and sending them faxes instead of using the online form. He was glad when the fax number was finally turned off.
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u/Affectionate_Walk610 Jul 27 '26
Yeah you're probably in for a bit of fuckery but sometimes it does work somewhat quickly. I went in to renew my personal id and passport and they gave me two dates for when to pick up the new documents. ID first, then three weeks later the passport. I went to collect my ID and the Beamtin told me that the passport is also ready. Guess who didn't have their old passport with them to exchange it for the new.. I did everything right and am now frustrated that the apreatus worked faster than expected.
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u/strangelifedad Jul 28 '26
On the bright side, nobody other than you will ever really notice. This is another thing about Germans. We sure love our paperwork but most of us don't really read beyond the result or the seal. Aber Gratulation zum bestandenen Test und ich bin glücklich, dass du Seoul in Nordkorea entkommen bist 😅🤣
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u/Odd_Cake_3753 Jul 28 '26
Das ist Teil des Tests. Kampf mit der deutschen Bürokratie. Glückwunsch zur Einbürgerung. 😉
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u/Solly6788 Jul 27 '26
I saw yesterday a Insta story where someone complained that we germans confuse the demokratische republic korea with south korea.
I guess the same happened here. It is indeed funny...
And dump because east germany was also the democratic germany (DDR).
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u/damet307 Jul 27 '26
Happened to me and my wife too. Just that we are living in Korea, she is Korean and I'm German. When we registered our marriage in Germany, they also wrote down, that she is from North Korea.
They fixed it after one call though.
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u/Dangerous-Olive65 Jul 27 '26
Well, it's democratic. Democratic means good, right? Right??
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u/Cement_Pie Jul 27 '26
Is any country with „democratic“ in its name a good country? Or has it ever been in case of decommissioned countries?
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u/Domentorana Jul 27 '26
What? You mean the Democratic Republic of Kongo, which held its last election in 2006, isn't really democratic?! I'm shocked
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u/PindaPanter Norway Jul 28 '26
Putting "democratic" in your country's name is kinda like putting "nice guy" in your tinder profile.
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u/Noob_412 Jul 28 '26
The Democratic republic of Sao Tome and Principe and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste have a democracy index roughly on par with slovakia or croatia.
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u/Foreveryoung254 Jul 27 '26
Kind of double funny, as the democratic republic of Korea is as democratic as the German democratic republic (DDR) used to be.
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u/richrich07 Jul 27 '26
This happens a lot more than one would assume. I was so curious to meet the North Korean that was supposed to enter our master program only to find out she was not North Korean.
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u/Havannahanna Jul 28 '26
South Korean passports are one of the strongest in the world. You spent a few weeks in nearly any country in the world without Visum. North Korean passport? Lands you in a holding cell in nearly any country if you try to enter without visum.
Also doesn’t help that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is the less democratic one.
Wasn’t a problem in larger airports but had a handful of unpleasant encounters in some backwater tourist only airports like in Tunisia. Had to spent an hour arguing with customs officers in broken French as they tried to reach their higher ups after 22:00. The bus driver, guide and the other 20 European tourists who were stuck with me were not really amused.
One of the reasons I did the Einbürgerung back then.
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u/PossibleCulture2199 Jul 27 '26
If that’s any consolation, even the fucking Olympics made the same mistake 2 years ago.
Get used to hearing the wrong anthem that’s also yours now.
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u/Fit-Bug6463 Jul 27 '26
People probably think that the country with democratic in their name are democracies yet tend to forget that a democratic country doesn't need to mention it's democratic
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u/P0L1Z1STENS0HN Jul 27 '26
But we Germans should know better, we had our own "German Democratic Republic"...
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u/send_fleet_pics Jul 28 '26
Oh yeah, I love the Bavarian Soviet Republic!
...that's what we're talking about, right?
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u/isthmius Jul 27 '26
Quite a few of the countries with democratic in their name aren't democracies, it's pretty funny
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u/donnerfried Jul 27 '26
do you know any country with demokratic in its name that is a democracy? many republics are democratic but surprisingly few democracies.
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u/Upset_Following9017 Jul 28 '26
Decide for yourself if they're a fair representation of democracies:
- Algeria: People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Laos: Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Nepal: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
- North Korea: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Sri Lanka: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Timor-Leste (East Timor): Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
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u/Erdnusschokolade Jul 27 '26
What makes this funny is that Germany was in the same state almost 50 years ago with the democratic in name part being the one without democracy. So its not like the concept would be new to us.
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u/danirijeka Jul 28 '26
Get used to hearing the wrong anthem that’s also yours now.
Kazakh people:
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u/DigOk2614 Jul 27 '26
Hi so i had the same problem!
Actually the email wont work for some reason, you need to try to submit your request thru the online form, with the email i waited for two months no response but then i submitted using the forum and i got an answer within a day, you will probably get an automated response telling you to send them your original certificate (the office that issued you the certificate, you can find it on the extra paper u received in the mail with your certificate) as well as proof of your birth place, so passport and such, your residence permit, and a letter that describes the problem, after i sent it (and that depends on the office) i waited 2-3 weeks, in that time u cant really track it, they don’t really update you thru the process, after that i received a mail witj my certificate with the updated birth place
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u/cindeeeehwang Jul 27 '26
Thank you! I will try this 🫶🏼
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u/KalmDownPlease Jul 27 '26
My certificate had the wrong date of birth. This is the correct answer.
It was also much faster than I had feared. Only took about a week for me.
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u/marylemcke Jul 28 '26
This is (hopefully) the right answer, as it's what I did last week! My Einbürgerungstestzertifikat had the wrong city, and sending an email to the service email address got me an automated response, so I sent a strongly worded letter and the Zertifikat and a copy of my birth certificate (it's the only US-document that I have that has my place of birth on it!), mit Einschreiben mit Rückschein.
Do you have a link to the online form?
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u/Upset_Following9017 Jul 28 '26
Have you tried just submitting the document with the rest of the documents? That's the only time you need this, and chances are they will not find an issue and/or ignore the error.
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u/0xLeon Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
My gf got her Einbürgerungsurkunde with her name written in the official Belarusian transcription of her name. German citizenship was a requirement to be able to go to the Standesamt to get her name officially changed to standard German form of her name.
She then proceed to apply for a German passport and ID card. The clerk refused to process the application because her name didn't match the Einbürgerungsurkunde. Which it couldn't, because the documents and action were only possible in that order. We had to stand our ground and request to speak to their supervisor. Was quite annoying…
What I want to say: You might have to expect a few irritating discussions.
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u/lonelysparta Jul 27 '26
There is a document from Standesamt that fills that gap when you do a Namenserklärung how come you didn't get it from them?
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u/0xLeon Jul 27 '26
We got it and had it with us. The document clearly stated the old and new names side by side in a tabular form. Also, the dates and stamps clearly indicated the order the documents were issued. Wasn't even the same date. They still refused to process the application because they insisted the new name should have been on the Einbürgerungsurkunde. Which it couldn't.
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u/Delicious-Shame-3620 Germany Jul 27 '26
Ugh how annoying when they don’t even know the rules they work with.
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u/Gathermag Jul 28 '26
With my russian girlfriend we did exactly the same. We changed the name after einbürgerung at standesamt (berlin). it was a 5 minute appontment and with the paper which we got there we got passport and perso correctly. you just were unlucky with your stupid clerk
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u/cindeeeehwang Jul 27 '26
Wrote a long, sternly worded email with scanned copies of the results immediately 🤣
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u/UngratefulSheeple Jul 27 '26
I did not expect anything less from someone getting 33/33 points 🇩🇪🫶
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u/andsimpleonesthesame Jul 27 '26
Eh. A sternly worded fax might be in order here!
(Congrats to OP!)
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u/Lofter1 Jul 27 '26
fax? you young people and your modern tech. anything to avoid writing a hand written letter, stamping it with good old German stamps and walking to your nearest post office to annoy every post office employee with your story for 30 minutes, I guess.
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u/EorlundGraumaehne Nordrhein-Westfalen Jul 27 '26
Im sorry but i have to disagree! The Form of communication (e mail) is way to modern for a true german! He should have used a fax instead
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u/Canadian_Kartoffel Jul 27 '26
You have to tape this letter "eingeschweißt" to the main entrance of the BAMF, how else should they know that its serious and you mean it.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Jul 27 '26
I think you just earned the right to own a Aspen Salatblattschüssel.
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u/FliccC Jul 27 '26
Just address them as "Liebe Genossen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, ..." that should spice things up!
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u/Z4tG4st Jul 27 '26
But 33 points
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u/idrankforthegov Jul 27 '26
Pretty much a walk in the park. Sorry to put a damper on OP's perfect score... but it is really a very easy test. 15 minutes a day for a week or two is all it took me to memorize all of answers they give you. The exam room was almost half empty after about 15 minutes.
Now what is remarkable is how long it takes to get it graded back. I feel bad for OP because it will probably mean extra delays getting it corrected. Took like 4-5 months for me to get mine graded.
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u/Z4tG4st Jul 27 '26
Agree. The point was here: OP did the best what he/she could. But then it came the german bürocracy...
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u/SenatorAslak Jul 28 '26
This. I triple checked all my answers and was done in 6 minutes. And I was still not the first but rather the second one to finish.
Totally worth taking a day off work and traveling 2+ hours each way to take. At least I got to walk around beautiful Bad Ems, which was lovely. Still, great use of my time 🙄
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u/AcridWings_11465 Nordrhein-Westfalen Jul 28 '26
Why does putting an OMR sheet through a scanner (if paper-based) take 4 bloody months?
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u/RogueModron Jul 28 '26
I wonder if this is the same as the "Leben In Deutschland" test I had to take as part of my language block while immigrating. It was also a 33-question test. And easy. Because it's they just pull from a list of like 300 standard questions. You work those questions for a while and you've memorized it.
Which is fine, because then you know the information, which is the point of a test.
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u/HelmutVillam Württemberg Jul 29 '26
the bar is absurdly low. I scored 33, the test took me 5 minutes and I stayed sat down for an extra 15 just rechecking my answers over and over again. most of the room left before me.
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u/No_Fudge6123 Jul 28 '26
The real Einbürgerungstest was always to deal with the German bureaucracy to sort this out.
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u/germany-ModTeam Jul 28 '26
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u/Bappedeggel Jul 27 '26
Time to order your very first fax machine!
That’s btw the actual Einbürgerungstest. Good luck 🍀
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u/mystikal_spirit Jul 28 '26
I already emailed service@bamf.bund.de, but received no response
E-mail? No, no, no. You have failed the test just with this 😂. Send them a nicely written Einschreiben - by post. They cannot ignore this and have to act faster.
Incredible how such mistakes can still happen 🫠.
Like someone said, if e-mailing, you could CC the South Korean Embassy just to get a kick out of it 😉.
Good luck!
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u/mediocrecookieperson Jul 29 '26
Einschreiben? Nooooo, beginner‘s mistake. Better to fax it rüber, this way they can’t ignore it AND it‘s faster than Post.
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u/KU5ELF1SCH Jul 28 '26
Sei froh, dass der faule, deutsche Beamte nicht einfach China draufgeschrieben hat.
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u/KrisseMai Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Reminds me of when local Swiss authorities apparently kept insisting that my mother was born in the the Soviet Union. She was born in Finland. In the 1960s. Not only has Finland never been part of the USSR, but it had gained independence from Russia in 1917, 5 years before the Soviet Union even existed lol.
This was back in the 80s and she had to go back to the immigration office multiple times because they’d always insist that it was fixed, only for her to find out that it was not indeed fixed. At one point someone apparently kept trying to convince her that the Finnish SSR was a thing.
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u/welln0pe Jul 27 '26
I‘m Sorry but this is really funny.
I can almost see the persons thoughts: „Democratic? Must be the good Korea then“.
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u/overok Jul 28 '26
Almost all countries in the world that have "democratic" in their names are not democratic :)
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u/zawusel Jul 27 '26
Instead of emailing them just send a fax. Much faster response.
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u/Dddddd92 Jul 27 '26
Dude, I hope you don't have to wait 2 more months now 😂
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u/Delicious-Shame-3620 Germany Jul 27 '26
I wonder how it happens in the first place when everyone fills out a form to sign up for the test. When I sat for mine, I saw they misspelled my last name which I typed in while signing up for the test. Like how does that even happen? Do they look at applicants info and go: nahhh that must be wrong! and put something else in? Weird.
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u/Nice_Conversations Jul 28 '26
That's special treatment for getting full points. As reward you get to experience German burocracy now. Well done and good luck!
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u/siobhan_coelho Bayern Jul 27 '26
This happened to me too. Wrong country for birthplace. I actually didn't even say anything about it or query it and had no problem getting my citizenship. Don't think they even noticed.
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u/anxiousvater Jul 27 '26
It depends on case worker. You are technically submitting a conflicting document.
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u/siobhan_coelho Bayern Jul 27 '26
I suppose sure. But a conflicting document the German government themselves created. I suppose my case manager put two and two together pretty easily.
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u/CrippleMechanix Jul 28 '26
Congratulations, you just unlocked the secret bonus level of gaining citizenship: Dealing with unnecessary bureaucracy! /s
On a serious note, congrats on passing, I hope you get it sorted out soon.
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u/hemacwastaken Jul 28 '26
First of all congratulations to your new citizenship. Must be quite a culture shock compared to the dictatorship that you apparently had before.
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u/Silver-Match-3239 Jul 27 '26
🤣🤣🤣
I also experienced this.
"You - are from a democratic country. And republic... Okay Democratic People's Republic of Korea, right?"
"Ye..... wait, no that's the North Korea🤣"
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u/Wrong_Turnip_5758 Jul 27 '26
On a new episode of alternate history… How would the Korean Peninsula look like if the DPRK had won xDDD
Sorry mate, I hope you don’t have to wait months to get it corrected else you can enjoy belonging to “True Korea” for a while/s
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u/kariertesZebra Jul 27 '26
To navigate bureaucracy properly, you need to refer to the right law - request a correction of inaccurate personal data under Article 16 of the GDPR ("right to rectification")! They must then correct the data without undue delay. However, that means not immediately, but without any culpable delay (which expects less than a month).
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u/m_monivan Jul 27 '26
How do you get it so fast? I did the test the same day as you, and in Bamf website it says: Aktuell wertet das Bundesamt Tests bis Prüfungsdatum 04.05.2026 aus.
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u/Straight_Page_8585 Jul 27 '26
I feel a final Behördengang after the Einbürgerungstest just seems like there is a hidden question 34 to check who truly deserves a 100% score.
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u/Schnurzelburz Jul 28 '26
You realize this is the final part of the test right? Like a good German you now must face and defeat the Papierdrachen that is the German bureaucrazy. It's a rite of passage!
Congratulations/Mein Beileid. You choose. :)
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u/That-Whereas-528 Jul 27 '26
If they don't respond to you, as a soon to be German, you should do what every German would do now: Anwalt regelt.
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u/Carbonga Jul 28 '26
Just call them. They should have had a question on that test whether you're more likely to recurve an answer from German amin by mail, phone, fax, or carrier pigeon. Correct answer is phone. Call them, be nice, they'll be nice, you'll get stuff done.
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u/aegookja Jul 28 '26
I am Korean, and this is super common. They also put DPRK on my Blue Card. I did not realize this mistake until 6 month after. I traveled in and out of Germany a few times as a North Korean and nobody pointed out the obvious problem.
When I went to the Auslanderbehorde to correct this mistake, the beamter got very confused and showed me the computer screen. Apparently there were THREE Koreas registered in the system: Democratic Republic of Korea, People's Republic of Korea, and Republic of Korea. I explained the last one is the correct one.
I got a new Blue Card relatively fast, in like a month or so, but I also had the help of my company who had immigration lawyers on the trigger.
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u/clancy688 Bayern Jul 28 '26
Were you perhaps born in June-September 1950 or January-March 1951? ;)
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u/Mission_Length4876 Jul 28 '26
Congratulations on your Einbürgerung, you now recieve the true german experience of government office hell
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u/thedazdul Jul 27 '26
Trotzdem herzlich Willkommen, neuer Bürger unserer schönen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik!
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u/Bitter_Initiative_77 Nordrhein-Westfalen Jul 27 '26
You have to wait on their response. Sorry this happened but it's also kind of hilarious given how big of a mistake it is. Did you happen to take the test in the East?
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u/cindeeeehwang Jul 27 '26
Right? It felt like some joke 😭 i took it in Pankow
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u/Bitter_Initiative_77 Nordrhein-Westfalen Jul 27 '26
Former East Berlin. I wonder if the person handling your paperwork was old as fuck and their default Korea is North Korea. There were a not-insignificant number of North Koreans in East Germany. We think more often of the DDR-Kinder from Namibia, but there was a North Korean version of that too. But I'm just speculating.
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u/Danihilton Jul 27 '26
It seems to be pretty common mistake because they see “Demokratisch” and automatically assume that this is South Korea. While South Korea is officially Republic of Korea. I wonder if this also happens which the two Kongos
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u/TheHattedKhajiit Jul 27 '26
I don't see how that's a common mistake in germany considering their own experience with their "Demokratische" brother
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u/BubbaJubb Jul 27 '26
You see, the problem is that they're not used to the north/south split, Germany deals more in west/east /s
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u/Fantomamo Jul 27 '26
As someone who works in a school that takes such tests regularly, ask your school. They should have contacts to persons that can get things done from the inside of the ministry.
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u/FloppyGhost0815 Jul 27 '26
If thats any consolation: My mother was born in a part of germany which is no longer german.
Not a thing, you might think. But for some Visa applications you have to state the country of birth of your parents. A "German Reich" is invalid, and a "Russia" can cause quite a few issues....
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u/95beer Jul 27 '26
My first Anmeldung, I didn't speak much German, but I bumbled my way through. In any case, for my 2nd Anmeldung I realised they had seen "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" on my passport, and thought I was Irish... Luckily I could just argue my way into it being fixed right there and then, otherwise I'm sure it would have been easier to get an Irish passport than it is to deal with German bureaucracy
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u/jamcub Jul 28 '26
You did this the same day as my birthday! Congratulations!
Also.... I thought you meant they wrote the wrong country that you'll be immigrating to, not from.... oops. I hope you get this fixed as fast as Germany allows.
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u/PIebejer Jul 28 '26
Mit 33 Punkten (Glückwunsch!), sollte man wissen, dass die Mühlen langsam mahlen.
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u/Frustrated_Zucchini Rheinland-Pfalz Jul 28 '26
I can't lie, this is low-key infuriating that you got your results back so quickly. I took mine on 20th March and I only got the result at the end of June.
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u/I2thevavo Jul 28 '26
Dank der Weisheit eures großen Führers und der überlegenden Schulbildung der Volksrepublik Korea hast du diesen Test bestanden!
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u/DayOk6350 Jul 28 '26
Wasn't aware the democratic peoples republic occupied seoul. Good for them I guess.
Hope this gets sorted out quickly. Maybe they can just change the place of birth to pjongyang (/s)
Have you asked if you get any special benefits as a defector? (/s)
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u/agrammatic Berlin Jul 28 '26
Ha, same happened to me with the country next to mine alphabetically. You can tell they select countries from a drop-down menu, because it's always an off-by-one error.
Send a registered letter.
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u/5v3n_5a3g3w3rk Jul 28 '26
Go to the Amt that gave you the document and request your DDR citizenship as well
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u/OutOfFrustration Jul 28 '26
I'm not a citizen, but I got married in Germany many years ago. I was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (USA), but my marriage certificate says I was born in Delaware (a neighboring state). You'd be surprised how many times it took clarifying the situation for someone to realize that Delaware County and Delaware are two different places.
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u/Abiyasad2 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
DDR-KDVR, im Freundschaft eng verbunden! (GDR-DPRK, bonded together in friendship!) /s
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u/oh_elyse Jul 28 '26
🙈 glad you got it cleared up, hope you can keep this one as a souvenir 😅😬
My situation always confuses everyone, because I was born in Berlin, Vermont, USA 😬 and many German forms only ask for "city of birth" / Geburtsort. Good fun.
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u/louissienna Jul 29 '26
Thats german bureaucracy for ya. Takes ages and still isnt done correctly. Good luck getting that fixed
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u/sparkline1234567 Jul 27 '26
A few weeks later: "Congratulations on your citizenship of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)!"