Overview

• The woman entered Germany in the early 1980s using a Lebanese passport stating she was born in 1960 and received a social security number based on that date.
• Beginning in 2015 she claimed a Turkish identity with a 2014 Turkish passport and registry extract listing her birth year as 1946 in Turkey.
• The Landessozialgericht Berlin-Brandenburg conducted a fingerprint comparison to confirm she was the same person and found the Turkish documents’ registration delay and life timeline implausibilities weakened their credibility.
• On June 19, 2025, the appeals court ruled that the original 1960 birth year remains authoritative, overturning the first-instance win at the Sozialgericht Berlin.
• The woman retains the right to file a final appeal with the Bundessozialgericht to challenge the decision.