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IMPORTANT: Select a location.To obtain application forms, location-specific information and contacts, select a town or zip code.

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The location is used to determine the responsible office for the selected administrative service. In most cases you can enter your place of residence to find the competent authority. However, there are also cases in which a different location must be specified. Here are some examples:

Birth certificateYou want to get married and need a birth certificate. You live in Hanover, but you were born in Celle. You must therefore state your place of birth, i.e. Celle.

Business registrationYou would like to register a business in Braunschweig. Your place of residence is Hanover. You must therefore state the location of your future business, i.e. Braunschweig.

Apply for a building permitYou would like to build a house in Wunstorf and therefore apply for a building permit. Her place of residence is currently Hanover. You must indicate the place where the house is to be built. In this case it is Wunstorf.

Signatures: Certification

The official certification of signatures is used to check identity. The competent authority may certify signatures if:

the signed document is required for submission to a German authority or other body to which the signed document is to be submitted on the basis of a legal provision, and
the signature is made in the presence of the certifying employee.

Signatures may not be officially certified if:

they require public certification by a notary (§ 129 of the German Civil Code (BGB)), e.g.
- certification of signatures under contracts or declarations in the field of family and inheritance law;
- in matters relating to associations and commercial registers;
they are submitted without accompanying text (blank signatures),
the document submitted is not required for submission to an authority or other body to which the signed document is to be submitted on the basis of a legal provision (e.g. so-called "Reich citizen declarations and documents") or is refused to read through,
documents are written in a foreign language.

The responsibility lies with the municipality, the joint municipality and the city, as well as with each authority within the scope of its material competence.

Proof of the applicant's identity (e.g. identity card or passport)
Document on which the signature to be produced is to be certified

Fees may apply, please contact the competent authority.

There are no deadlines to be observed.

§ Section 1 (1) of the Lower Saxony Administrative Procedure Act (NVwVfG)

Citizens' Advice Centre, Citizens' Advice

Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)

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