Right, with patience, persistence and a little bit of Googling you can always work through the issues. But the issues don't exist in the first place in AU/NZ (

Right, with patience, persistence and a little bit of Googling you can always work through the issues. But the issues don't exist in the first place in AU/NZ (and presumably UK/US though I can't speak first hand do that). Even if they did, they'd be solved in a much more straightforward manner. I guarantee a similar form here, even though it would never exist, would accept "address pending" as a valid answer. I'm not trying to say the German way is wrong, but you have to understand how crazy it seems to a foreigner.