Possible to queue at Ausländerbehörde for appt?

Yeah, the walk-in queue at Friedrich-Krause-Ufer has been gone for a while now. They switched to an online-only booking system during the pandemic and never brought it back. Your best bet is to use one of those appointment scanner tools or check the Berlin.de portal around midnight when they release new slots. Just a heads up, the website can be flaky so keep refreshing.

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ngl the queue thing is dead since 2022, but if you really need to go in person try showing up right when they open and ask security if there's any no-show slots they might let you take

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Pretty sure they stopped the walk-in queue around 2022. You'll have to book online or try the appointment scanner bots.

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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.

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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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

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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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