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No appointments in Bürgeramt for months - ok to stay without anmeldung for a while ?
I thought the rule is to get the Anmeldung within 2 weeks. I am not sure if I will be in trouble if I try to get it done after 2 and a half months ?
Besides, I will be living without an address essentially. Official communications will come to my previous address and I think they will be returned. Who knows what important communication I will be missing on. What if I need to order a new bank card or something, they will not delivery on a new address for sure. I was planning to file my tax return but now I am afraid the response will be lost (not sure I have any other way of knowing what happened to my tax filling). It's going to be problematic without Anmeldung.
After searching online, I saw some suggestions from people that appointment slots become available early morning. I checked twice and there was an earlier slot but in July end. Besides, it sucks wasting my time looking for appointments all the time, I have better things to do than to manually seek appointments.
Another suggestion was to forward the post. I am not sure what they will ask for to forward the mails, it's not that anyone can simply go online and intercept my post. And again, it would suck to pay a fee for no fault of my own.
yeah the 2 week rule is real but they dont really fine you for it anymore, especially if you can show you tried getting appointments. i know someone who did theirs after 4 months and nothing happened. just keep proof of your appointment search screenshots or something
for mail forwarding Deutsche Post has a service called Nachsendeauftrag, costs like 25€ for 6 months. you fill it out online and they redirect everything from your old address. works for bank cards too. honestly way less stress than worrying about lost mail
if you really want an appointment faster, try the bookable appointment system at like 7am on weekdays, thats when they release cancelled slots. i got one for Friedrichshain that way within a week. also check Spandau or Köpenick, those are less busy and you just take the S-Bahn there
tbh the whole citizen office thing is a mess but technically you're fine as long as you eventually register. just bring your rental contract when you finally get the slot and they'll backdate it to when you moved in
for mail you could also just change your address with the bank online most of
Honestly the 2 week thing is more of a guideline these days, loads of people are in the same boat. Just book whatever you can get and don't stress too much.
For the mail problem, you can also just put a sticker on your old mailbox with your new address and hope the post person is nice enough to redirect stuff manually. Works sometimes.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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