Register residence
Source: Serviceportal 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.
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
Registration office - supplementary sheet for registration (DIN A4)