The 18-month period is already over. Got requested a couple of months ago to sign the LE and send some other documents, no further communication since then.
Does it bring anything if we request the Akteneinsicht for the Einbürgerung? Is there any advantage if we contact already a lawyer?
My wife has been waiting for 18 months, and I see horror stories of people waiting three years in Munich! We can't wait that long.
Is there somebody who can recommend a lawyer to start the UK? Will all costs be recoverable?
Thanks
I am in my 40s with a M.Sc., Ph.D., and a successful career at a FAANG in tech.
Can I join a cadet program in the EU? Or is the only possibility to pay for my CPL?
(I have the funds, but I wonder if it is just too late to start from scratch)
Somebody mentioned in another post that getting the license in Poland could be really economic. Is it true?
I saw these results on the Internet, and considering the price difference with Germany seems really like a good option.
Is there any disadvantage to do it in Poland or Romania?
Family of three, one kid, 4 yo. Wife and I in our early 40's.
Current expenses at around 5.000 €, but I am sure we can move them down to 4.000 €.
Portfolio of stocks, dividend kings, at about 1.200.000 €.
Around 200.000 € in cash, we were saving for a house.
I can collect one year of unemployment when I quit, bringing around 3.000 € per month for about a year.
When I am 67, I will have a German pension of about 550 € per month, indexed with inflation.
Is this too tight?
Family of three, one kid, 4 yo. Wife and I in our early 40's.
Current expenses at around 5.000 €, but I am sure we can move them down to 4.000 €.
Portfolio of stocks, dividend kings, at about 1.200.000 €.
Around 200.000 € in cash, we were saving for a house.
I can collect one year of unemployment when I quit, bringing around 3.000 € per month for about a year.
When I am 67, I will have a pension of about 550 € per month, indexed with inflation.
Is this too tight?
Hello everyone,
I have read multiple times that banks like ING-DiBa close your brokerage account—or at least severely restrict it—as soon as you report a tax residency outside the EU/EEA. Because of this, I would love to know how those of you who have already taken this step handled it:
I look forward to hearing your reports, tips, or best practices on how you handled this in the cleanest way possible, both tax-wise and organizationally.
Thanks!
Hallo zusammen,
Ich habe mehrfach gelesen, dass Banken wie die ING-DiBa das Depot kündigen oder zumindest sehr beschränken, sobald man den steuerlichen Wohnsitz außerhalb der EU/EWR meldet. Daher würde mich brennend interessieren, wie diejenigen unter euch vorgegangen sind, die diesen Schritt bereits gewagt haben:
Ich freue mich über eure Berichte, Tipps oder Best Practices, wie ihr das steuerlich und organisatorisch am saubersten gelöst habt.
Danke euch und viele Grüße!
Hello Internet friends,
We have been researching schooling for our German/Vietnamese boy, and although the German school seems appealing, somebody brought to us the attention over the French school. They teach English and French, and the schooling system is compatible with other EU countries - so he could eventually start again in Germany if we decide to go back, given that he has the language knowledge. It is also easy to jump into a EU university once the school is finished.
Has anybody in this situation sent the kids to a French school, without being a French native speaker? Do you have any experience you can share?
This happened many years, but later events keep bringing the trauma. As a teenager, I discovered messages finding out my father was having an affair. When I told my mother, she promised to protect me, but when she confronted him, she did nothing of the sort. My father made my life hell. He raided my room, read my private diary, and threw my belongings out the window. He then punched me in the face, leaving a scar on my eyebrow that I still carry today. Instead of defending me, my mother forced me to apologize to him. From that point on, my father frequently hit and screamed at me over trivial things. My mother always claimed I was provoking him and making him nervous. Physical violence was frequent
Things escalated further when my mother set an ambush with our worst neighbor, an alcoholic old man who beat his wife and had previously assaulted me. I guess she probably wanted to teach me a lesson. After he beat me badly, I escaped and ran to my mother out of breath, only for her to tell me I was lying. For years, she forced me to share a car with him every single day. The day I finally refused, my mother chose to drive the neighbor to town herself and made me walk four kilometers along a dangerous mountain road. My parents continued to attend barbecues and socialize with my aggressor for years, though my mother now claims she never even liked him.
To justify their actions, my parents completely destroyed my reputation by telling our extended family and friends that I was a criminal and a rebel. Years later, when I went to see a friend of my mother's, she refused to let me into her house because she genuinely believed I was dangerous. No one in their social circle knows what they actually did to me. I eventually left home at age 20 on my own terms, using my own money, with zero support from them.
At 23, I moved to another country alone, without knowing the language or having any contacts. I told my mother I would not speak to her until she came to apologize. She claimed she could not visit my town because it was too far and she had to work, yet during that same period, she traveled to Paris to see a friend, a trip that is the exact same distance from her town, about two hours
The disrespect continues to this day. A couple of years ago, my uncle canceled a visit with my family two days in advance without an apology, forcing me to find last-minute hotel accommodations, because in my family I am treated as someone of no value. My mother recently tried to bypass me to take my daughter to see my father or uncle without my permission. Last year, when my wife told my mother directly that she needed to apologize to me, my mother simply responded that I am very difficult.
The moment my father hit me, my mother should have called the police or taken me away. She should have never gaslighted me, forced me to apologize to my abuser, or put me in a car with the neighbor who assaulted me. I know now that an apology is never coming, and while I am making peace with myself, I can no longer stay anywhere near them. Recently I cut contact with her, and she keeps trying to reach out but ignoring everything I am telling her. I keep having nightmares to this day.
500 companies, lived through the shift from Eclipse and early Java all the way to Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and modern Kotlin architecture.
Lately (last two years), though, I can't shake the feeling that the mobile dev world is stagnant or dying down. The market feels saturated, team sizes are shrinking, and a lot of the exciting work seems gone. Most of it now feels like boilerplate UI, API integration, and maintenance. And many less jobs.
I'm considering pivoting toward backend development using Kotlin. My reasoning is that a good chunk of my skillset should carry over pretty smoothly: the language itself, concurrency/coroutines, design patterns, clean architecture, and even some common libraries.
For anyone who has made a similar jump (or backend folks hiring for Kotlin/JVM roles):
Would love to hear any thoughts, experiences, or honest reality checks.
Hello friends,
Not quite Interrail, but maybe you have some tips.
Our family of three would like to travel somewhere around Christmas, from Munich. We have been checking night trains to get a bit further away, like Ljubljana, Zagreb, Krakow, or Amsterdam.
It would be very important to get a private room, but I can't see on ÖBB if the room is private. We have a little daughter, and we would not like to share this with a stranger.
Do any of you have any experience or tips you can share?
Hello,
After 16 months, my wife was asked for some other papers (LE, salary, etc...)
We asked how long it will take, and they have mentioned something like:
>müssen wir als Einbürgerungsbehörde noch behördeninterne Abfragen tätigen. Dabei sind wir auf den Rücklauf von anderen Stellen angewiesen. sind wir auf den Rücklauf von anderen Stellen
I assume they need a police report and so? How long can this take in Munich? We are close to the 18th month they mentioned, August is next week and we are honestly a bit full of the entire waiting.
Ich habe mittlerweile etwa 40 verschiedene Anzeigen erstattet, bin mir aber nicht sicher, ob das irgendeine Wirkung oder Konsequenzen hat. Wie kann man wissen, ob weg.li funktioniert?
Dear retired or semi-retired friends in Vietnam who are married to a Vietnamese national:
Are you renting in Vietnam? Did you end up buying some property?
We are about to pull the trigger (one kid in Kindergarten age, so not retired as in not doing anything), and I was wondering whether renting or buying property makes more sense. Curious to hear what you have done.
My wife received a letter from a different caseworker asking for more documents. We were a bit surprised, since we don't know if the previous one left, died, or what the reason why they changed.
We answered via the Bayern ID portal, but we are not sure who receives that message and how. The caseworker didn't specify any email, just her/his surname (O*****n in Munich).
Does anybody know her/his email, or how we can ask about the current status? It has been 17 months since the initial 18 months they asked us to wait, and we are not really sure what happened and what to expect at this stage - and after all this time, I think it is not unreasonable to get an explanation.
Hello friends,
I am reading multiple friends that folks are concerned about the authoritarian drift in Vietnam, quoting some decrees that have been recently approved.
What's the real issue happening? I mean, it is clear that Vietnam didn't score high on the democracy index, but I genuinely don't understand what is the current problems or the latest developments in politics.
Hello friends,
I got my first freighter, and I am so excited. I have been now however trying to get some more frigates to send to missions, and I am a bit lost. Do I just keep wandering around the galaxy until I can see some that I can recruit? Is there a better way to do it? I have been moving around for a couple of hours and I can't see any that I could recruit.
Thanks!
Thank you to all the community for helping so much to get started, it is awesome to see how supportive everybody is!
Do you build bases in every planet? Only in planets that you like, or bound with especially? I am really struggling trying to find a trade-off between exploration, settlements, side missions and main quest.
