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.
Identity cards and, if applicable, passports and children's identity cards or children's passports must be presented. If you have moved within the district of Mayen-Koblenz, please also present the vehicle registration document for amendment. There is no charge for registering and changing identity papers. A fee of EUR 10.70 is charged for changing the vehicle documents.
- 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:
Your responsible office:
Verbandsgemeinde Maifeld - Fachbereich 6 - Teilgebiet 6.2 - Bürgerservice
Address
56751 Polch
Building access
Contact
Telephone
Fax
Website
Opening hours
Remark:
- Citizens' office
- Residents
- Business
- Civil status
- Funeral services
- Pension office
- Tourism / Culture
- Associations
Contact person
Address
56751 Polch
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
- Maifeld:
- Age and marriage anniversaries
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- Apply for a license as a real estate agent, loan broker, property developer, building supervisor or residential property manager
- 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 parking permit for severely disabled persons
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport replacement if you lose your passport abroad
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a stand permit
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a workshop card for the first time
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an extension of the driving license for categories AM, A1, A2 or A
- 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 exemptions from prohibitions in travel trade
- Apply for extension of the travel business card
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Apply for issuance of the driver qualification certificate
- Apply for municipal funding for associations
- Apply for the fixing of trade fairs, exhibitions or markets
- Applying for a company card for the first time
- Applying for a driver card for commercial goods and passenger transport for the first time
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Applying for a special use permit for advertising in public spaces
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Business re-registration
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Catering industry, apply for permission on special occasions
- Census 2022
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Checking the reliability of traders in the case of industries requiring monitoring
- Christmas market
- 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
- Deregister trade
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Driving licence: Conversion of a service driving licence into a civilian driving licence
- Driving license for categories B and BE for accompanied driving from the age of 17
- Duplicate business registration
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- European Certificate of Good Conduct
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Extension of a temporary driving license
- Fisherman's Exam Acceptance
- Fishing licence issuance
- 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
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- 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
- Landlord confirmation
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Marriage consummation
- Motor vehicle: obligation to wear seat belts and safety helmets - exemption
- 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
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- 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
- Pawnbroking - apply for a permit
- Paying out municipal funding for associations
- 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 business
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Report undeclared work
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Request information about traders
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Subsequent inclusion, amendment and supplementation of conditions or listed activities of the traveling trade permit application
- Take the examination for financial investment brokers
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for a liquor license
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
56751 Polch
Remark:
Building: Town hall
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
- Maifeld:
- Age and marriage anniversaries
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- 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 parking permit for severely disabled persons
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport replacement if you lose your passport abroad
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a workshop card for the first time
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an extension of the driving license for categories AM, A1, A2 or A
- 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 exemptions from prohibitions in travel trade
- Apply for extension of the travel business card
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Apply for issuance of the driver qualification certificate
- Apply for the fixing of trade fairs, exhibitions or markets
- Applying for a company card for the first time
- Applying for a driver card for commercial goods and passenger transport for the first time
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Applying for a special use permit for advertising in public spaces
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Business re-registration
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Catering industry, apply for permission on special occasions
- Census 2022
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Checking the reliability of traders in the case of industries requiring monitoring
- 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
- Deregister trade
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Driving licence: Conversion of a service driving licence into a civilian driving licence
- Driving license for categories B and BE for accompanied driving from the age of 17
- Duplicate business registration
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- European Certificate of Good Conduct
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Extension of a temporary driving license
- Fisherman's Exam Acceptance
- Fishing licence issuance
- 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
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- 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
- Landlord confirmation
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- 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
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- 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
- Pawnbroking - apply for a permit
- 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 business
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- 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
- Request information about traders
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Subsequent inclusion, amendment and supplementation of conditions or listed activities of the traveling trade permit application
- Take the examination for financial investment brokers
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for a liquor license
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
56751 Polch
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
- Maifeld:
- Age and marriage anniversaries
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- 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 parking permit for severely disabled persons
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport replacement if you lose your passport abroad
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a workshop card for the first time
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an extension of the driving license for categories AM, A1, A2 or A
- 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 exemptions from prohibitions in travel trade
- Apply for extension of the travel business card
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Apply for issuance of the driver qualification certificate
- Apply for the fixing of trade fairs, exhibitions or markets
- Applying for a company card for the first time
- Applying for a driver card for commercial goods and passenger transport for the first time
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Applying for a special use permit for advertising in public spaces
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Business re-registration
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Catering industry, apply for permission on special occasions
- Census 2022
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Checking the reliability of traders in the case of industries requiring monitoring
- 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
- Deregister trade
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Driving licence: Conversion of a service driving licence into a civilian driving licence
- Driving license for categories B and BE for accompanied driving from the age of 17
- Duplicate business registration
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- European Certificate of Good Conduct
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Extension of a temporary driving license
- Fisherman's Exam Acceptance
- Fishing licence issuance
- 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
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- 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
- Landlord confirmation
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- 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
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- 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
- Pawnbroking - apply for a permit
- 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 business
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- 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
- Request information about traders
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Subsequent inclusion, amendment and supplementation of conditions or listed activities of the traveling trade permit application
- Take the examination for financial investment brokers
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for a liquor license
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
56751 Polch
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
- Maifeld:
- Age and marriage anniversaries
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- Apply for a license as a real estate agent, loan broker, property developer, building supervisor or residential property manager
- 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 parking permit for severely disabled persons
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport replacement if you lose your passport abroad
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a workshop card for the first time
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an extension of the driving license for categories AM, A1, A2 or A
- 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 exemptions from prohibitions in travel trade
- Apply for extension of the travel business card
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Apply for issuance of the driver qualification certificate
- Apply for the fixing of trade fairs, exhibitions or markets
- Applying for a company card for the first time
- Applying for a driver card for commercial goods and passenger transport for the first time
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Applying for a special use permit for advertising in public spaces
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Business re-registration
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Catering industry, apply for permission on special occasions
- Census 2022
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Checking the reliability of traders in the case of industries requiring monitoring
- 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
- Deregister trade
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Driving licence: Conversion of a service driving licence into a civilian driving licence
- Driving license for categories B and BE for accompanied driving from the age of 17
- Duplicate business registration
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- European Certificate of Good Conduct
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Extension of a temporary driving license
- Fisherman's Exam Acceptance
- Fishing licence issuance
- 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
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- 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
- Landlord confirmation
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- 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
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- 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
- Pawnbroking - apply for a permit
- 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 business
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- 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
- Request information about traders
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Subsequent inclusion, amendment and supplementation of conditions or listed activities of the traveling trade permit application
- Take the examination for financial investment brokers
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for a liquor license
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
56751 Polch
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
- Maifeld:
- Age and marriage anniversaries
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- 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 parking permit for severely disabled persons
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport replacement if you lose your passport abroad
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a workshop card for the first time
- Apply for an examination authorization certificate
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an extension of the driving license for categories AM, A1, A2 or A
- 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 exemptions from prohibitions in travel trade
- Apply for extension of the travel business card
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Apply for issuance of the driver qualification certificate
- Apply for the fixing of trade fairs, exhibitions or markets
- Applying for a company card for the first time
- Applying for a driver card for commercial goods and passenger transport for the first time
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Applying for a special use permit for advertising in public spaces
- Applying for an eID card as an EU citizen
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Business re-registration
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Catering industry, apply for permission on special occasions
- Census 2022
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Checking the reliability of traders in the case of industries requiring monitoring
- 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
- Deregister trade
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Driving licence: Conversion of a service driving licence into a civilian driving licence
- Driving license for categories B and BE for accompanied driving from the age of 17
- Duplicate business registration
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- European Certificate of Good Conduct
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended certificate of good conduct
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Extension of a temporary driving license
- Fisherman's Exam Acceptance
- Fishing licence issuance
- 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
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- 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
- Landlord confirmation
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- 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
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- 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
- Pawnbroking - apply for a permit
- 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 business
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- 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
- Request information about traders
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Subsequent inclusion, amendment and supplementation of conditions or listed activities of the traveling trade permit application
- Take the examination for financial investment brokers
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- apply for a liquor license
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage