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Loss of my german citizenship

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Moses   3

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Hello,

I'm very upset because I just found out that my wife lost her German Citizenship.

My story: I applied for my German wife for US Citizenship in May 2015 but I didn't know that we have to file "beibehaltung" in order for her to keep the German citizenship.

She have all her family in Germany and she travels there twice a year. I feel very bad because I was the one who filed all the paper work for her and now I made her lose her German citizenship because I wasn't aware of the law.

My wife's parents moved to Germany when she was 2 and she lived all her life in Germany (going to school there etc...). We even have 2 children one who was born in Germany and another was born in the states. All her family live in Germany including mother, father, sister, 3 brothers, 5 uncles, cousins etc...

Do we stand any chance to get her back the German citizenship?

What if she decided one day to go back and live to take care of her mother and father? What can we do to reverse the action?

If she moved back to Germany will they treat her as a foreign?

Thank you so much in advance for your feedback.

Regards,

Devyn Rookie

Devyn   2

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Hi Moses,

there might be a possibility to regain her German citizenship. Here is some information about it (for your wife to read ;) ) : http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/de/05__Dienstleistungen/02__Staatsangehoerigkeit/05__Einbuerg__StAG/__Einbuergerung__bei__Verlust__nach__1999.html

I’d also call the German embassy tomorrow - just to double check with them.

Good luck!

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Devyn   2

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Thanks for the info but she isn't german by birth. She was in germany since she was 2 years old

Sorry, I must have skipped that part. Call the embassy tomorrow, they’ll know for sure.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you guys and keep us updated.

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TabeaK   517

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Man, I am sorry. But Germany does not like its citizens to have dual citizenship - they grudgingly allowed dual EU citizenships some years back, but any non-EU requires the Beibehaltungsgenehmigung otherwise the German one is automatically gone...

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texcal Contributor

texcal   9

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Did you already call the Embassy? What did they say?

I amreally sorry, I am not sure if they will let her regain it at all. What a unique case anyway since she is not born in Germany etc..

Buuuut since a few years back it was not possible to for example get US citizenship without losing the German one there is a "Aufenthaltserlaubnis fuer ehemalige Deutsche Staatsangehoerige" (residence permit for former citizens). So if she ever wants or needs to come back to Germany this might be a way or her mum files for her to move there.

http://dejure.org/gesetze/AufenthG/38.html This is the link tothe actual law. I dont know much about it only saw it in the list when we applied for my husbands german residence permit.

Good luck though! I really hope you can find a way to get it back for her.

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