Adoption of a foreign child Notarization in the birth register

You can apply for the subsequent certification of the birth of your child born abroad at the registry office of your place of residence. The registry office registers your child in the birth register. After registration, you will receive a German birth certificate for your child upon application.
 
Note: The registry office, which carries out the subsequent certification of the birth of your child born abroad, informs:

• the registry office that keeps the birth records for the adoptive parents
• the registry office I in Berlin that the birth of the child born abroad was subsequently certified in Germany
• the registration authority.

Please contact the registry office of your place of residence.

All documents that were required in the country of origin for the certification of the birth and for the adoption must be submitted.
 
Note : You need foreign documents with over-certification by the competent foreign authority (apostille) or legalization by the German mission abroad.

• § 36 Civil Status Act (PStG)
• § 27 Civil Status Act (PStG)
• § 49 Civil Status Act (PStG)
• § 50 Civil Status Act (PStG)
• § 57 Civil Status Ordinance (PStV)
• Point 16.5.4.4 of the Special Schedule of Fees of the General and Internal Administration, including the Police Administration

If you do not agree with a decision of the registry office, you can contact the district court. The district courts which have their seat in the place of a regional court have exclusive jurisdiction to make decisions.

30.11.2018