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?

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