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In and amongst all of the paperwork that you've had to fill out for your visa, residence permit, matriculation paperwork, you've likely noticed that you've had to repeatedly fill in the city you were born in. What's the deal with that though? Are they actually keeping track of this? Do German government agencies have some sort of register of everywhere people were born that they check in on? Why do they ask for this even from foreigners?
Read MoreWhen you are registering or matriculating into a German university, one of the many paperwork requirements that you will have to fulfill is to provide certified copies of certain documents for the university's records. For those attending German university at a graduate level, this would include your bachelor's diploma and high school transcript, for those at the undergraduate level, this is your high school transcript alone. However, it's not sufficient in most cases to bring your documents to the student or registration office and have them make a copy for you, so what are you to do?
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