Apply for an identity card
Source: BUS 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
Special information for Association Simmern-Rheinböllen
You can apply for the desired service at the Simmern Citizens' Office or the Rheinböllen branch office, regardless of where you live within the municipality.
- 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.
For online application:
The nearest responsible office to you:
Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen - 2.3 Bürgerbüro Simmern
In order for us to be able to deal with your concerns comprehensively and to save you unnecessary waiting times, it is necessary to make an appointment before visiting our administration. The municipality of Simmern-Rheinböllen uses an online appointment system for this purpose. For frequently requested, customer-relevant services, you can book an appointment directly with us using the following link:
To make an appointment
Visitor address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Building access
wheelchair accessible
Contact
Telephone
06761 837-150
Website
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 08:00 - 12:00
Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00
Thursday 14:00 - 18:00
As well as every first Saturday of the month from 08:00 - 12:00.
Please note: Short-term changes (e.g. closing days) will be announced in the current news on the homepage of our website.
Contact person
Visitor address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Telephone
06761 837-214
Website
room
131
Responsible for:
- Simmern-Rheinböllen:
- 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 postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an apostille
- 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 an eID card as an EU citizen
- 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.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Correct mayoral election Voters' register
- Correction of personal data by the registration authority
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Deutsche Rentenversicherung Servicetelefon
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Eligible persons for the European elections
- Exclusion from European elections
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Having the electoral roll for the European elections corrected
- 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 information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- Local elections: Correct voters' register
- Local elections: Enter EU citizens in the voters' register
- Local elections: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Local elections: consult voters' register
- Local elections: register returnees
- Mayoral election: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: Enter Union citizens in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: View voters' register
- Mayoral election: register returnees
- 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 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
- Placing an animal
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registering on the electoral roll as a German after returning from abroad for the European elections
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- 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
- Request personal data information
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- View the electoral roll for the European elections
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- be entered in the electoral roll for the European elections as a German living abroad or as a German living abroad
- be registered or have themselves registered on the electoral roll for the European elections as a German resident in Germany
- register on the electoral roll for the European elections as a citizen of the Union
Address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Visitor address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Telephone
06761 837-138
Website
room
131
Responsible for:
- Simmern-Rheinböllen:
- 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 postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an apostille
- 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 an eID card as an EU citizen
- 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.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Correct mayoral election Voters' register
- Correction of personal data by the registration authority
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Deutsche Rentenversicherung Servicetelefon
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Eligible persons for the European elections
- Exclusion from European elections
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Having the electoral roll for the European elections corrected
- 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 information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- Local elections: Correct voters' register
- Local elections: Enter EU citizens in the voters' register
- Local elections: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Local elections: consult voters' register
- Local elections: register returnees
- Mayoral election: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: Enter Union citizens in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: View voters' register
- Mayoral election: register returnees
- 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 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
- Placing an animal
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registering on the electoral roll as a German after returning from abroad for the European elections
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- 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
- Request personal data information
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- View the electoral roll for the European elections
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- be entered in the electoral roll for the European elections as a German living abroad or as a German living abroad
- be registered or have themselves registered on the electoral roll for the European elections as a German resident in Germany
- register on the electoral roll for the European elections as a citizen of the Union
Visitor address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Telephone
06761 837-221
Website
room
131
Responsible for:
- Simmern-Rheinböllen:
- 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 postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an apostille
- 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 an eID card as an EU citizen
- 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.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Correct mayoral election Voters' register
- Correction of personal data by the registration authority
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Deutsche Rentenversicherung Servicetelefon
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Eligible persons for the European elections
- Exclusion from European elections
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Having the electoral roll for the European elections corrected
- 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 information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- Local elections: Correct voters' register
- Local elections: Enter EU citizens in the voters' register
- Local elections: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Local elections: consult voters' register
- Local elections: register returnees
- Mayoral election: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: Enter Union citizens in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: View voters' register
- Mayoral election: register returnees
- 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 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
- Placing an animal
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registering on the electoral roll as a German after returning from abroad for the European elections
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- 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
- Request personal data information
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- View the electoral roll for the European elections
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- be entered in the electoral roll for the European elections as a German living abroad or as a German living abroad
- be registered or have themselves registered on the electoral roll for the European elections as a German resident in Germany
- register on the electoral roll for the European elections as a citizen of the Union
Visitor address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Telephone
06761 837-216
Website
room
131
Responsible for:
- Simmern-Rheinböllen:
- 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 postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an apostille
- 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 an eID card as an EU citizen
- 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.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Correct mayoral election Voters' register
- Correction of personal data by the registration authority
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Deutsche Rentenversicherung Servicetelefon
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Eligible persons for the European elections
- Exclusion from European elections
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Having the electoral roll for the European elections corrected
- 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 information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- Local elections: Correct voters' register
- Local elections: Enter EU citizens in the voters' register
- Local elections: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Local elections: consult voters' register
- Local elections: register returnees
- Mayoral election: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: Enter Union citizens in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: View voters' register
- Mayoral election: register returnees
- 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 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
- Placing an animal
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registering on the electoral roll as a German after returning from abroad for the European elections
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- 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
- Request personal data information
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- View the electoral roll for the European elections
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- be entered in the electoral roll for the European elections as a German living abroad or as a German living abroad
- be registered or have themselves registered on the electoral roll for the European elections as a German resident in Germany
- register on the electoral roll for the European elections as a citizen of the Union
Visitor address
Brühlstraße 2
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
55469 Simmern/Hunsrück
Telephone
06761 837-219
Website
room
131
Responsible for:
- Simmern-Rheinböllen:
- 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 postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an apostille
- 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 an eID card as an EU citizen
- 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.
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of main residence
- Change of residence
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Correct mayoral election Voters' register
- Correction of personal data by the registration authority
- Declaration of consent for minors traveling without a legal guardian
- Deregister residence due to emigration
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Deutsche Rentenversicherung Servicetelefon
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Eligible persons for the European elections
- Exclusion from European elections
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have your address changed on your ID card
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Having the electoral roll for the European elections corrected
- 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 information issue
- Identity card status query
- Information and transmission blocks in the population register Entry of information block
- Issuing information from the population register
- Local elections: Correct voters' register
- Local elections: Enter EU citizens in the voters' register
- Local elections: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Local elections: consult voters' register
- Local elections: register returnees
- Mayoral election: Enter Germans in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: Enter Union citizens in the voters' register
- Mayoral election: View voters' register
- Mayoral election: register returnees
- 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 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
- Placing an animal
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registering on the electoral roll as a German after returning from abroad for the European elections
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- 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
- Request personal data information
- Residence deregistration
- Residence registration for inland navigation skippers and seafarers
- Simple certificate of good conduct
- Simple information from the population register
- Submit a lost and found report
- Unblocking electronic proof of identity
- View the electoral roll for the European elections
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- be entered in the electoral roll for the European elections as a German living abroad or as a German living abroad
- be registered or have themselves registered on the electoral roll for the European elections as a German resident in Germany
- register on the electoral roll for the European elections as a citizen of the Union
Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen - 2.3 Bürgerbüro Außenstelle Rheinböllen
Address
Am Markt 1
55494 Rheinböllen
55494 Rheinböllen
Contact
Telephone
06764 39-30