Berlin LEA S5 contact form: Geschäftszeichen vs Aktenzeichen / Stellenzeichen

§10 StAG Naturalization from within Germany

Hi everyone,

I recently received a request from LEA Berlin S5 for additional documents for my naturalization application. The email said that they need these documents in order to finalize my application:

Bescheinigung des Arbeitgebers über ein ungekündigtes Arbeitsverhältnis
the last four payslips / Verdienstnachweise

In the LEA email, they gave me two references:

Stellenzeichen: S XXXX
Aktenzeichen: XXXXXXXXXXXX

They asked me to send the requested documents through the S5 contact form.

In the contact form there was a field called:

“Geschäftszeichen zu Ihrem Antrag (soweit vorhanden)”

In that field, I entered only the Aktenzeichen, so only the long number.

But in the message text, I wrote both:

Stellenzeichen: S XXXX
Aktenzeichen: XXXXXXXXXXXX

I attached the requested documents and got the confirmation page from the form saying that my message was submitted.

Now I am a bit worried because i still did not get any reply after 4 weeks: should I have written both numbers in the Geschäftszeichen field, like “S XXXX - XXXXXXXXXXXX”? Or is it okay that I only wrote the Aktenzeichen in the field and both numbers in the message text?

Did anyone have a similar situation with LEA Berlin S5? Were they still able to identify the application correctly?

I do not want to send a duplicate message unless it is really necessary.

Thanks a lot!

Posted Jun 11, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

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