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Your vs. his in formal correspondence

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I ran into trouble understanding who's who in the following letters and I'm not totally sure if I get it right. The letters concern someone, possibly a citizen of country A, who was transferred to work for some time in country B. Here they are:

First letter, sent from the authorities of country A to the authorities of country B: "En relación con el desplazamiento concedido a X, se informa que al haberse anulado su alta en el Régimen Especial de Trabajadores Autónomos, se ha procedido a eliminar su desplazamiento."

Second letter, sent from the authorities of country A to X, the worker: "En relación con su solicitud de mantenimiento de la legislación española, se remite el formulario A1 en el que se declara que está sometido/a a la legislación española."

The second letter looks straightforward to me, the authority tells this person "In relation to your request... we send you (passive) form A1 in which you declare that you are subject to the Spanish legislation."

The first letter, however, is about X but is addressed to another authority and because of this I understand it as "In relation to X's transfer, you are informed (passive) that after his deregistration... his transfer has been cancelled." Does that make sense or did I get it all wrong? Thanks!

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updated Dec 3, 2015
edited by Manity
posted by Manity
I think they are just using ' usted', but whichever way, I think he won't be travelling. - annierats, Nov 30, 2015
Interesting question, manity. - annierats, Nov 30, 2015
Actually, se ha producido eliminar, your displacement-movement-whatever, hads been declined, passive. Yes. I await Bosque, or a native with interest. - annierats, Nov 30, 2015
I hope for a native. What she says makes a lot of sense to me, and I would agree. But I would not pretend I am at a level to actually confirm it. ;) - bosquederoble, Dec 1, 2015
Thanks for the replies, Annie and Bosque, I really appreciate your comments on this formal riddle. Small word, big problem, eh? :) - Manity, Dec 1, 2015
The word 'se' is the most complicated in a very complicated language, I think! - annierats, Dec 1, 2015

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Is "X" a female or male name?

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Ah, it is ** you are subjected to**...

updated Dec 3, 2015
edited by chileno
posted by chileno
Eh, Chileno... why, you'd only help a female X? ;) - Manity, Dec 2, 2015
Female, usually xx, male xy?? Is tha t any help? - annierats, Dec 2, 2015
hahaha. Manity, I have good relations with females... I don't know why it is like that. My problem is many men testosterona interferes, many women then estrogen interferes... ;) - chileno, Dec 3, 2015
Now seriously. Pluck the X with the real name, and it will make sense in English, hence the Spanish version also will make sense. - chileno, Dec 3, 2015
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Bumping this up for a response. Anyone care to take a stab at it?

updated Dec 2, 2015
posted by rac1
Thanks for the effort, Rac. :) - Manity, Dec 2, 2015