Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzYour identity card is invalid after a change of name. So if you have had your surname changed, for example after a divorce or the dissolution of a civil partnership, you must apply for a new identity card.
There is one exception: as long as you have a valid passport document, i.e. passport or temporary passport, with the new name, you do not have to apply for a new identity card.
The EU logo on the front of the ID card, which will be introduced from 2 August 2021, will not invalidate ID cards without this logo.
The period of validity depends on your age at the time of application:
- under 24 years: Identity card is valid for 6 years.
- 24 years and over: Identity card is valid for 10 years.
A temporary identity card is valid for a maximum of 3 months.
You can apply at your Bürgeramt at your main place of residence. Applications can be made at any other Bürgeramt if an important reason is given. There is a surcharge for lack of competence, which means that the costs of issuing the card increase.
You can apply for an identity card at the Bürgeramt in your place of residence, or at your main place of residence if you have more than one place of residence. You can also apply for your identity card at any other citizens' registration office. However, you must have an important reason for doing so. If you contact the Bürgeramt you have chosen beforehand, you can find out whether and to what extent the Bürgeramt recognises your reason.
- Many Bürgerämter allow you to make an appointment online, by e-mail or by telephone. You can find out what options your Bürgeramt offers on its website, for example.
- When you apply, your Bürgeramt will inform you when you can collect your identity card.
- Your identity card is produced centrally by Bundesdruckerei GmbH in Berlin.
- You can make an appointment to collect your identity card online, by e-mail or by telephone at many Bürgeramt offices. You can find out which options are offered by your local Bürgeramt, for example, on its website.
Please contact the identity card authority in your place of residence.
The obligation to apply for an identity card applies to you if you
- have German citizenship
- have reached the age of 16 and
- are registered in Germany,
- do not have a valid passport or provisional passport with the new name.
To apply outside your main place of residence:
- You must be able to show an important reason why you are not applying for the identity card at the Bürgeramt at your main place of residence.
- old identity card or passport (with the old name) and, if available, valid passport (with the new name)
- Divorce certificate
- certificate of the name from the registry office
- biometric passport photo: The photo must be
- be up to date and
- meet the photo requirements for electronic ID cards.
Special information for Association Weißenthurm
Photos for identity documents may only be taken by certified photo studios that use a secure, digital transmission channel to the authorities. The photo must not be older than 6 months.
Alternatively, citizens of the municipality of Weißenthurm can have their photo taken on site / at the town hall using a special device. A fee of 6 euros is payable for the photo in addition to the basic fee for the relevant ID document. Please note that no passport photo can be printed and handed out.
- EUR 37.00 for applicants aged 24 and over
- EUR 22.80 for applicants under 24 years of age
- EUR 10.00 for the temporary identity card
- EUR 13.00 surcharge for applications submitted outside office hours or to authorities not having jurisdiction
- EUR 30.00 surcharge for issuance by consular or diplomatic representation abroad
Fee reductions or exemptions are possible for people in need. This is at the discretion of the Bürgeramt.
You must apply for the new identity card immediately after the name change.
Exception: You have a valid passport document, i.e. passport or temporary passport, with the new name.
From the time of application, it usually takes at least 2 weeks until you can collect your identity card from the Bürgeramt.
29.08.2024
The nearest responsible office to you:
Verbandsgemeinde Weißenthurm - Fachbereich 2 - Bürgerdienste
The Weißenthurm municipal administration sees itself as a modern service provider and service point for our citizens. This applies in particular to Department 2 (Citizen Services), as it is a very public-intensive area. This is where the tasks of hazard prevention and the tasks of the registration authority are carried out. In addition to enforcing the hazard prevention ordinance for the municipality of Weißenthurm, it also monitors stationary and moving traffic and issues business and restaurant permits.
Department 2 "Citizen Services" is divided into the following sub-areas:
2.1 "Citizen services, public safety and order"
2.2 "Road traffic authority, fire protection and disaster control"
2.3 "Social affairs, debt counseling"
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
Visitor address
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
Contact
Telephone
+49 2637 913-0
Fax
+49 2637 913-100
Website
Contact person
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Address
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
Telephone
02637 913-108
Website
room
Bürgerbüro
Responsible for:
- Weißenthurm:
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct
- 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 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 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 an identity card for the first time
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- 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
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Applying for information from the central trade register
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- 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
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- 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
- 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
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- 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
- 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 certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report a bicycle without a master
- Report free-roaming and abandoned pets
- 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
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Address
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
Telephone
02637 913-109
Website
room
Bürgerbüro
Responsible for:
- Weißenthurm:
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct
- 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 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 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 an identity card for the first time
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- 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
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Applying for information from the central trade register
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- 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
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- 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
- 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
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- 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
- 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 certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report a bicycle without a master
- Report free-roaming and abandoned pets
- 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
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Telephone
02637 913-149
Website
room
Bürgerbüro
Responsible for:
- Weißenthurm:
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct
- 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 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 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 an identity card for the first time
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- 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
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Applying for information from the central trade register
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- 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
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- 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
- 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
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- 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
- 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 certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report a bicycle without a master
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Report free-roaming and abandoned pets
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- 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
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Address
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Telephone
+49 2637 913-148
Fax
+49 2637 913-100
Website
room
Bürgerbüro
Responsible for:
- Weißenthurm:
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct
- 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 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 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 an identity card for the first time
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- 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
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Applying for information from the central trade register
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- 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
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- 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
- 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
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- 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
- 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 certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report a bicycle without a master
- Report free-roaming and abandoned pets
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- 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
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Telephone
+49 2637 913-0
Fax
+49 2637 913-100
Website
room
Bürgerbüro
Responsible for:
- Weißenthurm:
- Apply for a certificate of good conduct
- 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 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 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 an identity card for the first time
- Apply for exemption from the identification requirement as a permanently disabled person who cannot move around in public
- 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
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for assisted persons
- Applying for exemption from the identification requirement for permanently housed persons
- Applying for information from the central trade register
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- 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
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- 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
- 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
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- 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 due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Pick up identity card
- Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Registration certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Report a bicycle without a master
- Report free-roaming and abandoned pets
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Passport notification
- Passport theft report
- Population register information Provision of group information
- 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
- 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
Verbandsgemeinde Weißenthurm - Bürgerbüro
Address
Kärlicher Straße 4
56575 Weißenthurm
56575 Weißenthurm
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
P.O. Box
56572 Weißenthurm
Building access
Lift available, wheelchair accessible
Contact
Telephone
+49 2637 913-0
Fax
+49 2637 913-100