The divide between offices and departments are also just hard to comprehend. On one hand, with the right documents, you can register your car with a new license plate in one night. You don't need to talk to a single person to get it done.

On the other you have to activate a lawyer to eke a reply out of one of the most important offices there is.

People with old paper driving licenses are told to update their licenses to the card form and at the same time facing processing times of up to a year.

My request to get married, even without all the required documents yet, was processed in 2 days.

@some can confirm btw, the one time the immigration office took a lot of time processing a simple request (allow us to move from Bavaria to Berlin after I found a paying job in Berlin), after half a year waiting we sent a complaint to the mayor (exaggerating things a bit, like how we want to be cigs in the machine and pay our taxes so hard, but the immigration office won't let us, and I'm about to be fired for not moving to where the office is, and this would mean that well become a burden on taxpayers, and we definitely don't want to be), and literally the next day got a response from the mayor's office "why are you so impatient, we contacted the immigration office and they told us they have just finished processing your application", and a few days later we got an appointment from the immigration office, dated the day of the response from the mayor's office.

I don't believe for a second that things just coincided this way and that the immigration office just happened to finish with our application right when the mayor's office called them 😅

But also by some miracle we got a naturalization appointment set to only 11 months after applying for naturalization (after being held completely in the dark for the first 10 months), so idk, maybe things _are_ better in Berlin.