Register residence
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzIf you move into a new home, you must register with the registration office responsible for you at your new place of residence within two weeks of moving in.
If you are under 16 years of age, you must be registered by the person whose home you are moving into.
If you are over 18 years of age and a carer or guardian has been appointed for you who can determine your residence, then your new home must be registered by your carer or guardian.
You only have to register newborn babies born in Germany if they move into a different home to that of their parents or mother.
To register your new home, you must come in person to the registration office responsible for you or authorize another person to do so.
- You appear in person at the registration office responsible for you or are represented by a person with power of attorney.
- You fill out the registration form and sign it (except in the case of an automated registration register).
- You submit all the necessary documents.
- Finally, you will receive an official confirmation of registration from the registration office.
You have moved into a new apartment in Germany.
- Completed registration form (except for automated registration register)
- At least one proof of identity:
- Identity card
- Temporary identity card
- Replacement identity card
- Recognized and valid passport
- Recognized and valid passport replacement document
- If you are moving into a rented property: landlord's confirmation of residence or corresponding allocation feature
- If moving into residential property: notarized purchase contract or extract from the land register
- For persons under guardianship: written power of attorney or guardian's certificate
- If represented by another person: written power of attorney and identification documents of the person to be registered
- If moving from abroad: last residential address in Germany (registration confirmation, date of moving in and out)
- For spouses, life partners and family members with the same move-in dates: Date of moving in as well as previous and current residences
- The competent authority may request the submission of further documents to verify the information (for example: marriage certificate, birth certificate)
There are no fees.
You must register your new place of residence within 2 weeks of moving into your new home.
The processing time is usually 12 minutes.
§ Section 17 (1) and (3) of the Federal Registration Act (BMG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bmg/__17.html
§ Section 21 (4) of the Federal Registration Act (BMG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bmg/__21.html
§ Section 23 of the Federal Registration Act (BMG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bmg/__23.html
§ Section 24 (1) of the Federal Registration Act (BMG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bmg/__24.html
Numbers 17.1, 17.3, 22 and 23.0 to 23.0.2 General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Federal Registration Act (BMGVwV)
https://www.verwaltungsvorschriften-im-internet.de/bsvwvbund_27092022_VII2201041418.htm
- Opposition
- Action for annulment
- Compulsory action
Forms available: no
Written form required: yes (except for automated population register)
Informal application possible: no
Personal appearance necessary: no
08.09.2022
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
For online application:
The nearest responsible office to you:
Stadt Schifferstadt - Referat Bürgerservice
Address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
Contact
Telephone
06235 44-0
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
Opening hours
Monday to Thursday 08:00 - 12:00
Tuesday 14:00 - 17:30
Thursday 14:00 - 17:30
Please make an appointment.
The town hall is now open from Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. for the collection of refuse and recycling bags and for appointments made in advance by telephone. Completed identity cards and passports can also be collected without an appointment.
Contact person
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Telephone
06235 44-333
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Telephone
06235 44-333
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Telephone
06235 44-312
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Address
Marktpplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
Telephone
06235 44-333
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
Telephone
06235 44-333
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Telephone
06235 44-333
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Telephone
06235 44-333
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
P.O. Box
67100 Schifferstadt
Address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
67105 Schifferstadt
Remark:
Town hall building
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Telephone
06235 44-311
Fax
06235 44-195
Website
room
10
Responsible for:
- Schifferstadt:
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of residence
- Church tax
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Elections
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Engage an election assistant
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Forms
Registration office - Registration (DIN A4)
Registration office - Registration (with help to fill in)
Registration office - supplementary sheet for registration (DIN A4)
Stadt Schifferstadt - Bürgerbüro
Visitor address
Marktplatz 2
67105 Schifferstadt
67105 Schifferstadt
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
Contact
Telephone
06235 44-0
Fax
06235 44-195