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I've changed my legal name and gender. What should I do next? (bureaucracy)
I´ve been living in Berlin for a year now and have successfully changed my legal name and gender under Spanish law. I have Spanish nationality and went through the process in the embassy.
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I´ve been living in Berlin for a year now and have successfully changed my legal name and gender under Spanish law. I have Spanish nationality and went through the process in the embassy.
I finally have my new passport but I still need to change my info everywhere now.
The most important thing in my opinion would be updating my info. to the Finanzamt and Bürgeramt (then to my Krankenkasse, etc...).
Does anyone know how to update my Anmeldung information and also inform the Finanzamt? I´ve read about getting an Anmeldung appointment and just tell them? I can´t find any proper information :(
I'm so confused. I´m scared I might miss something.
Thanks in advance :D
Update your passport and ID. Then, hit up the Einwohnermeldeamt to change your registration. It's a bit of a process, but worth it.
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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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