Apply for a change of residence in your passport
Description
Only the place of residence is entered in your passport, not the exact address. The place of residence in your passport only needs to be changed if your place of residence in Germany changes.
You can have the place of residence entry in your passport changed in person or by a person authorized in writing at the authority responsible for you at your new place of residence.
If you move abroad and have a new place of residence there, you can have your place of residence entered abroad. If your place of residence abroad has not yet been determined, you can have your current place of residence entered.
- You have a valid passport.
- Your place of residence has changed.
- You bring your passport with you to the authority to re-register.
- valid passport
- current official confirmation of registration,
for proof to be provided abroad, please contact the responsible German diplomatic mission abroad. - for representation:
- Power of attorney
After moving to a new place of residence in Germany, you must have your place of residence entry in your passport changed immediately.
- Opposition
- Action for annulment
- Compulsory action
Registration office or German mission abroad (embassy or consulate)
If your place of residence in Germany changes:
- Contact the registration office responsible for you.
- You can authorize another person in writing to change your place of residence in your passport at your local registration office.
- You can have your passport amended at the same time as you re-register in Germany. To do this, present your valid passport when you re-register.
- The registration office will affix an official residence sticker with your new place of residence to a free space in data field 11 or on the page for official endorsements in your passport.
If your place of residence changes abroad:
- You can register with the German diplomatic mission responsible for your new place of residence abroad, for example at an embassy or consulate.
- There is no obligation to register with a German diplomatic mission abroad.
There are no indications or special features.
- § Section 15 number 1 Passport Act (Passgesetz - PassG)
- § Section 19 (1) sentence 1 Passport Act (Passgesetz - PassG)
- § Section 19 (2) of the Passport Act (Passgesetz - PassG)
- § Section 19 (3) of the Passport Act (Passgesetz - PassG)
- § Section 23a of the Federal Registration Act (Bundesmeldegesetz - BMG)
- § Section 1 (2) Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- § Section 15(4)(3) Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- Annex 1b Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- Annex 1c Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- Annex 11 No. 1 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- Annex 11 Number 6 Sentence 3 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- Annex 11 Table 3 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- Annex 11 Table 4 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
- § 4 Numbers 4.1.9 to 4.1.9.5 General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Administration Regulation - PassVwV)
- § Section 6(2)(6.2.1.4) General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Administration Regulation - PassVwV)
- § Section 6(2)(6.2.2.5) General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Administration Regulation - PassVwV)
- § Section 21 (2) number 21.2.8 General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Administration Regulation - PassVwV)
Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs (BMI)
22.03.2024
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
