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How to get an auslanderbehörde reply in 2 weeeks??
-I tried to reach via fax recently- it does not work -Already wrote se… Im changing my job in 2 weeks and despite my efforts to get in touch with Berlin auslanderbehörde, nothing worked since October.
-I tried to reach via fax recently- it does not work -Already wrote several times on kontaktformular, no reply since october -hotline doesn't connect me to anyone
Can I simply show up there really early in the morning like 4am and find an appointment opportunity?
I'm about to lose my new job and my mind. Any advices?
Yeah the registered letter route is solid, but also try emailing the "Fachstelle für Beschäftigung" directly if you haven't already - they handle work-related stuff specifically and sometimes respond faster than the general contact form. Include your new contract and a clear subject line like "Fristverlängerung Arbeitswechsel" and you might get lucky.
Honestly, showing up at 4am at the Lageso won't help much, they've basically stopped walk-ins for most things. Your best bet is to email your local Abgeordnete directly and explain the job situation, they can sometimes push things through for you.
tbh fax is dead for them, they barely check it. try sending a registered letter (Einschreiben) to their postbox at Keplerstraße, that gets logged and forces a response within a timeframe by law. also look up the "Schnellschalter" at the Lageso, it's not 4am but they do hand out a few same-day numbers around 7am for urgent cases, job change counts. if you've got a letter from your new employer with a start date, print that and bring 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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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