Apply for an identity card
Source: Serviceportal Rheinland-PfalzAs a person with German citizenship, you can have an identity card issued. If you have reached the age of 16 and do not have a valid passport, you must apply for an ID card.
The period of validity of your ID card depends on your age at the time of application:
- Application under the age of 24: ID card is valid for 6 years.
- Application from the age of 24: ID card is valid for 10 years.
Your ID card loses its validity before the expiry date entered on it if
- Entries no longer apply or
- your photo is no longer clearly suitable for identification purposes. This may be the case in particular with ID cards for infants or very young children.
There is one exception: a change of address or height will not invalidate your ID card.
You also have the option of applying for a temporary ID card. This is valid for a maximum of 3 months.
You can submit the application to your identity card authority at your main place of residence, which is usually the Citizens' Registration Office.
If there is an important reason, you can also apply for an ID card at an authority outside the jurisdiction of your place of residence. This may result in additional costs.
Identity card authority of the place of residence,
any other identity card authority in Germany (additional costs may be incurred),
German representation abroad
- You have German citizenship
For applications outside your main place of residence:
- You must be able to provide an important reason why you are not applying for the ID card at the ID card authority at your main place of residence.
- Proof of identity, for example
- old identity card,
- valid passport or children's passport
- current biometric photograph
- birth certificate, if applicable
- If applicable: certificate with current name, for example
- birth certificate, marriage certificate, marriage certificate,
- family register
- Declaration on the use of the name
- for children under the age of 16: Declaration of consent by the legal guardian
- if there is only one parent or legal guardian, additional proof of custody
If the validity of your old ID card has expired and you are over 16 years old, you must apply for a new ID card immediately if you do not have a valid passport document.
Forms available: No.
Written form required: Yes.
Informal application possible: Yes.
Personal appearance required: Yes.
Online services available: No.
The EU logo on the front of the ID card introduced on August 2, 2021 will not invalidate ID cards without this logo.
29.08.2024
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Your responsible office:
Verbandsgemeinde Cochem - Fachbereich 2/3 - Bürgerdienste
Address
Ravenéstraße 61
56812 Cochem
56812 Cochem
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
Contact
Telephone
+49 2671 608-0
Fax
+49 2671 608-140
Website
Opening hours
Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00
Thursday 14:00 - 18:00
Contact person
Visitor address
Ravenéstraße 61
56812 Cochem
56812 Cochem
Telephone
+49 2671 608-172
Fax
+49 2671 608-88172
Website
room
1.06
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a new ID card due to expiry of validity
- Apply for a new ID card due to theft
- Apply for a new ID card if you lose it
- Apply for a new identity card due to change of name on marriage
- Apply for a new identity card due to name change after divorce
- Apply for a new passport due to name change
- 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 a temporary passport
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Applying for an ID card for the first time
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have a new address entered on your ID card
- Have your identity card changed
- House number assignment
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- ID card storage in the chip
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- 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
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Make identity card notifications
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Notarization of documents or signatures
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- 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 notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Pick up identity card
- Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- 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
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
Visitor address
Ravenéstraße 61
56812 Cochem
56812 Cochem
Telephone
+49 2671 608-152
Fax
+49 2671 608-88152
Website
room
1.07
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a new ID card due to expiry of validity
- Apply for a new ID card due to theft
- Apply for a new ID card if you lose it
- Apply for a new identity card due to change of name on marriage
- Apply for a new identity card due to name change after divorce
- Apply for a new passport due to name change
- 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 a temporary passport
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Applying for an ID card for the first time
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have a new address entered on your ID card
- Have your identity card changed
- House number assignment
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- ID card storage in the chip
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- 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
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Make identity card notifications
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Notarization of documents or signatures
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- 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 notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Pick up identity card
- Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- 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
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
Address
Ravenéstraße 61
56812 Cochem
56812 Cochem
Telephone
+49 2671 608-158
Fax
+49 2671 608-88158
Website
room
1.06
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a new ID card due to expiry of validity
- Apply for a new ID card due to theft
- Apply for a new ID card if you lose it
- Apply for a new identity card due to change of name on marriage
- Apply for a new identity card due to name change after divorce
- Apply for a new passport due to name change
- 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 a temporary passport
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Applying for an ID card for the first time
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have a new address entered on your ID card
- Have your identity card changed
- House number assignment
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- ID card storage in the chip
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- 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
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Make identity card notifications
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Notarization of documents or signatures
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- 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 notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Pick up identity card
- Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- 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
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
Visitor address
Ravenéstraße 61
56812 Cochem
56812 Cochem
Telephone
+49 2671 608-142
Fax
+49 2671 608-88142
Website
room
1.07
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- Apply for a new ID card due to expiry of validity
- Apply for a new ID card due to theft
- Apply for a new ID card if you lose it
- Apply for a new identity card due to change of name on marriage
- Apply for a new identity card due to name change after divorce
- Apply for a new passport due to name change
- 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 a temporary passport
- Apply for an emergency travel document for foreigners
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Applying for an ID card for the first time
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Budget certificate
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have a new address entered on your ID card
- Have your identity card changed
- Homelessness Help with imminent loss of housing
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- ID card storage in the chip
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- 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
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Make identity card notifications
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Notarization of documents or signatures
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- 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 notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Pick up identity card
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- 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
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
Forms
Collection of identity documents