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For the CV to be submitted with your naturalisation application, what did you include in it? Thank you.

Jane47 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:36 am For the CV to be submitted with your naturalisation application, what did you include in it? Thank you.

I asked my Ausländerbehörde and they said there was no required format.

I have seen examples on the internet that include a handwritten history of your life about 1 page in length, written in paragraph format. I have also seen examples that are traditional CV format.

I used a CV format and included my work experience, education, skills, a portrait photograph. It was accepted when I gave my documents to the Ausländerbehörde.

I used a very simple one pager, with all of the following as bullet points.

Persönliche Daten (name, contact details, family status, DOB, nationality)
Studium (reverse chronological order)
Berufliche Laufbahn (reverse chronological order)
Kenntnisse/Fähigkeiten (languages spoken)
My signature with date and location.

Thank you all.

Bremen doesn't require one for their application, so I never did one, but before I knew that, I did a bit of "research" by searching for "lebenslauf einbürgerung muster"

There were loads of hits, and I just checked and there still are. (Edit to add, take care that you use a German example not just an example written in German, there are Swiss and Austrian ones out there too).

In general I found that the best approach to everything when I was unsure though was to just ask my case worker when I was there.

I had to write a massive tome including why I wanted to be German. Now I feel as though possibly that wasn't necessary, but hey ho.

Oh come on Kiplette, you can't leave us hanging like that.
Apologies if it sounds like I am questioning you, but a British person writing, "the reasons why I want to be German" sounds like it would be high on the list for shortest ever novel (being distinct from, say, "reasons why I want to live in Germany").
Any chance of a summary.

kiplette wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:49 pm I had to write a massive tome including why I wanted to be German. Now I feel as though possibly that wasn't necessary, but hey ho.

Perhaps this was before they introduced the mandatory Living in Germany test?

No, I did that, too. Twice, in fact, since I first started the process in NRW where our Diensthaus was, and then in Niedersachsen where we were during school days since it became obvious that from a German perspective, this was our actual primary residence.

I think perhaps the fact my advisor on what to do was my older daughter who is a massive overachiever was the issue - one way or another, I got the citizenship, so that was the main thing and I think I was doing a C1 course at the time, and the teacher checked my thing, so it went in in really nice German, so another big plus there.

dstanners wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 10:56 am Oh come on Kiplette, you can't leave us hanging like that.
Apologies if it sounds like I am questioning you, but a British person writing, "the reasons why I want to be German" sounds like it would be high on the list for shortest ever novel (being distinct from, say, "reasons why I want to live in Germany").
Any chance of a summary.

I came across it randomly a while back, but it felt a bit PTSD so I didn't read it again! I think it was a handwritten story of my life, ending in a paragraph explaining that I had lived in my current town for longer than anywhere and this was my home more than anywhere else, and my great desire was to become a citizen of my town. Quite tear-jerking Also skating over the distinction you made - I don't think I ever said that I wanted to be a German citizen, but just stuck to my town.

That's because Kid#1 was our forerunner - she antrag-ed hers immediately when Brexit happened - and at her citizenship ceremony (we have a bells and whistles event in a historic building) it was very clear from the speech made by the Burgermeister that he wasn't celebrating new Germans, but new townsfolk. I found that really helpful, because in the end, grateful as I remain that Germany allowed us to take citizenship, I only did it because of Brexit, and remain pretty miffed that my own country put me in that situation, and do refer to myself as 'Brexitdeutsch' when people ask about it. I can, however, wholeheartedly celebrate being a Burger of my town