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RQ is issued for some applicants in order to avoid fraud, some for quality assurance reasons and some unknown percentage to cover up that processing times skyrocketed in the past two years for various reasons. Issuing a RQ delays processing indefinitely for this applicant and has not to be...

I thought I put an update here in case somebody from good old Germany is interested. I got a 'Verlängerung der Beibehaltungsgenehmigung' free of charge for another two years. I hope nobody from CIC reads this here and delays our application another two years :). The document will be mailed to me...

The Beibehaltungsgenehmigung (what a word :) is valid for 2 years. You need to be in possession of a valid one prior to obtaining an add'l citizenship. To be safe prior to the oath date. If you don't hold a valid one, you automatically loose German citizenship. If you don't tell and it'll be...

Yeah, absolutely, it's just a pain in the a... to renew it and who would guaranty that the process of PR renewal won't change in the future; require you e.g. to be a proud taxpayer to maintain it... Germany is voting next year, so, there's opportunity for surprises as well. Right now I am a...

Hi fellows, I felt sharing our info will contribute to your database. Background: We are German citizen. I came here with the company exchange program in 2007 following an expat assignment in the US. I am working 20+ years for the company now and took a local Canadian contract when we...