Feststellung Success: ~2 years

I wanted to let this community know that yesterday I received an email from the Consulate in Los Angeles that my Certificate of German Citizenship was waiting to be mailed to me!

I mailed my application directly to the BVA in Oct 2022, after the Los Angeles consulate indicated that I couldn't go direct to passport. Atkenzeichen of Dec 2022 and sent additional docs Oct 2023. I never heard anything from the BVA during the entire two year process - I had to ask for my Atkenzeichen after 6 months.

I think my case was very straight forward once u/maryfamilyresearch helped nudge me in the right direction towards finding my great grandfather's baptism (1871) and marriage records after my initial submission.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GermanCitizenship/comments/12km2ou/trust_consulate_or_pursue_more_docs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

My spouse and I are very excited to start making real plans to move to Deutschland sometime in the next year or so. Many thanks to this community for all the help in enabling me to go through the entire process myself.

vielen, vielen Dank