Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
As a person with German citizenship and permanent residence abroad, you are not subject to the general obligation to register and therefore also not subject to the obligation to obtain an identity card within Germany.
However, it is possible for you to apply for an identity card in person at selected German missions abroad that have been designated as identity card authorities by the Federal Foreign Office or, under certain conditions, at any citizens' registration office in Germany.
Notice:
Please inquire in advance at the foreign mission in whose district you are staying whether it can issue identity cards, since not all foreign missions are also identity card authorities.
Who should I contact?
Responsible authorities
Einheitsgemeinde Haselünne, Stadt
Building Access
elevator available, wheelchair-accessible
Contact
Bürgerservice Stadt Haselünne
responsible for:
- Haselünne:
- AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Counseling
- Animal enclosure display
- Application for a certificate of no impediment to marriage for German nationals, stateless persons, homeless foreigners or foreign refugees within the meaning of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with habitual residence in Germany
- Application for approval as a transport company in accordance with the EU Animal Welfare Transport Regulation
- Application for issuance of a German death certificate in case of death abroad
- Apply for a death certificate
- Apply for a permit to supply / dispense certain hazardous substances and mixtures in accordance with ChemVerbotsV
- Apply for a resident parking permit
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Apply for blindness benefit
- Apply for care assistance
- Apply for certificate of seclusion according to the Condominium Act
- Apply for infection protection instruction including certificate
- Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities, minors with physical or mental disabilities or sensory impairments
- Assistance for subsistence: granting
- Assistance in other situations Authorisation
- Authorisation for exemptions from the Highway Code: granting
- Authorisation for the non-commercial handling and acquisition of explosive substances Granting
- Avian influenza
- Basic provision in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity (social assistance)
- Birth certificate issuance
- Birth registers
- Broadband coverage
- Building file archive
- Building permit issuance in the simplified building permit procedure
- Bulky waste disposal by collection
- Bulky waste disposal by personal delivery
- Calculating and setting the wastewater levy
- Car towed - municipal information
- Carcasses and animal by-products: disposal
- Change to the church tax deduction when joining the church
- Change to the church tax deduction when leaving the church
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Church admission: Declaration
- Citizens' consultation hours
- Citizenship card: Issuance
- Commercial properties
- Community licence for the international and national carriage of passengers by coach and bus: issue
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Damage to roads and bridges: Notification
- Data protection in municipalities
- Disaster prevention
- Documents and copies: Certification
- Dog ownership deregistration
- Driver's license issue new due to name change
- Driving licence: Extension - driving licence of categories C and D
- Driving licence: issued - on trial
- Early Aid Offer
- Earth excavation display for wells
- Electronic proof of identity blocking
- Electronic residence permit issuance
- Enrollment of a child in elementary school
- Establishment of a civil partnership Notarisation
- Event: Display
- Events in public transport areas: Permission
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exemption for the use of floodplains: granted
- Exemption from the driving ban on Sundays and public holidays: Authorisation
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Extend registration of prostitution activities
- Family book: Exhibition
- Family name change
- Firearms license
- Foster children
- GIS - Geographical Information System
- Game Warden Confirmation
- Garden waste disposal
- Guardianship Institution
- Guardianship law
- Handling of water-polluting substances Display
- Help for pregnant women
- House number: Fixing
- Household waste disposal
- Hunting lease: Advertisement
- Hunting license: exhibition
- Information blocking device
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with custodial partner
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with divorced or widowed partner
- Interference with nature and landscape: authorisation
- Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
- Keeping of farm animals - display
- Land use plan
- Landscape and green space plans
- Lost property
- Manufacture, authorization, supply and import of veterinary medicinal products: information provided
- Markets and festivals
- Marriage consummation only for German citizens
- Marriage consummation with foreign partner
- Medical Service / Youth Medical Service
- Municipal sports facilities
- Naturalization: Approval - for foreigners entitled to naturalization
- Obligations of waste disposal and recovery companies
- Operation Prostitution Business Permit
- Operation of a shooting range in enclosed spaces: display
- Organ donation
- Organization or execution of prostitution events Permit
- Parenting, marriage, family and life counselling
- Parking barrier for a move: Facility
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance new due to change of name upon marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Passport issuance new due to change of other data
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport status query
- Pay trade tax
- Permit-free construction measures Notification
- Permits and exceptions to excessive road use: granting
- Planning approval
- Playgrounds: Maintenance
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Possession of poliovirus display
- Preservation of Historical Monuments
- Process-free construction measures
- Protection of children and adolescents
- Providing a prostitution vehicle permit
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Psychiatric institution (closed) - Accommodation
- Recognition of paternity
- Register at the secondary school
- Register burial
- Register marriage
- Registration for the transportation of animal by-products
- Report significant changes for housing benefit such as number of household members, rent, charges or income
- Reporting suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Representation permit for a prostitution business Permit
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Residence Registration as main residence
- Road signs and traffic facilities: modification
- School enrolment examination
- School excursions, school trips and comparable trips from day-care centres: reimbursement of costs
- School travel costs
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips by day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to the Federal Child Benefit Act
- Second home tax exemption
- Self-help groups
- Senior citizens' and nursing homes in Lower Saxony
- Shelter (children, adolescents and young adults)
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Special obligation to register in accommodation establishments Registration
- Store opening hours
- Studying in Lower Saxony
- Tax Life Certificate: Issuance
- Temporary authorisation for road passenger transport: grant
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- Undeclared work notification
- Vacation
- Vaccination: Advice
- Vegetable waste disposal by incineration
- Voluntary Social Year
- Voluntary work Appointment as a youth alderman
- Advertisement of non-profit and commercial waste collections
- Ambulance transport
- Animal Event Permit
- Application for exemption from presentation of the certificate of marriageability for foreign nationals.
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Applying for a permit under immission control law for the construction and operation of systems
- Applying for an increase in housing benefit
- Assistance for the elderly
- Avoidance, recycling and disposal of waste Consulting
- Building encumbrances: Entry - in the register of building encumbrances
- Building permit issuance
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Cancel display
- Care and care of children and adolescents in emergency situations
- Carrying out collections Provision of information
- Change of use of buildings Approval
- Childcare services for seniors
- Children's Passport Issue
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Chimney sweep
- Compensatory and substitute measures for nature conservation
- Confirmation of development
- Construction site: Issuance of construction site orders under traffic law
- Construction supervision
- Conveyance
- Cycling
- Declaration of the right to a name
- Decoration of Honour of the Land
- Determination of the route of dangerous goods transports: Issue - Determination of individual routes
- Distinction between crafts and non-crafts - consulting
- Dog ownership registration
- Driving licence: transfer - foreign driving licence
- Early intervention for the hearing impaired
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Environmental information on contaminated sites and areas suspected of being contaminated sites: Information
- Exemption for compulsory use of seat belts and helmets: Granting
- Exemption for the use of tools between 20:00 and 7:00: issuance
- Express passport issue
- Family holidays: Funding
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Food inspection
- Granting access to building permits for neighbours
- Have address and personal data changed
- Helping the homeless
- Home care
- Housekeeping help
- Housing benefit cancellation/invalidity
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Licence for the (cross-border) carriage of goods by road for commercial purposes / Community licence
- Local law
- Memorials
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Obtain a certificate for carrying narcotics when traveling abroad
- Out-of-court dispute resolution
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- Passport issuance new due to expiry of validity
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport report for theft
- Pension scheme
- Permit for the extraction of mineral resources: Granting
- Professional drivers - confirm basic qualification
- Protection of animals
- Register home slaughter
- Register of contaminated sites: Information
- Register your child at a secondary school
- Report conclusion of the land lease agreement
- School performance: assessment
- Show installation of a prostitution vehicle
- Signatures: Certification
- Street cleaning
- Towing permit: issue
- Urban land-use planning
- Use of sound amplification systems: granting - exemption
- Violence against women
- Waste disposal
- Waste tyre storage facilities of less than 100 tonnes: approval
- Water law permit for structural installations on water bodies: Granting
- Winter service
- Apply for a subsidy for expenses on a monument
- Assessment of second home tax
- Bathing water quality monitoring
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Commercial Waste Disposal
- Commuter Portal
- Dementia - Information options
- Direct discharge of rainwater: permission
- Disturbance of street lighting: message
- Driving licence: Issuance - International driving licence
- Driving license: Issue - Passenger transport
- Environmental impact assessment
- Exemption from the observance of the night's rest for events: granting
- Flood protection
- Gun ownership card: issuance - for sport shooters
- Health advice for prostitutes
- Hunting permit: notification
- Immission control: Inspection - due to impairment
- Medical officer
- Notification period of an auction: shortening
- Nursing homes, forms of assisted living, outpatient assisted living communities: Obligation to notify - Operation
- Outdoor Advertising: Approval
- Parking permit
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport notification due to loss
- Petrol stations Advertisement Commissioning: Limitation of the release of fuel vapours
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Resident certificate issuance
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB II
- Special reporting obligation in hospitals, homes and similar institutions Registration
- Tuberculosis counselling
- Veterinary affairs
- Volunteering
- War Victims' Welfare Grant for injured persons
- property tax assessment received
- Addiction counselling
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a tree felling permit for municipally protected trees
- Apply for certificates of origin and other certifications required for foreign trade from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Assistance to overcome particular social difficulties
- Biowaste disposal
- Carrying out school dental check-ups
- Certificate of competence for keeping chickens for fattening
- Children's passport report for theft
- Citizens' advice
- Commercial cattle trade: advertisement
- Commercial road haulage - Apply for a permit
- Confirmation of landlord
- Construction of a small sewage treatment plant: Advertisement
- Day care
- Dog tax assessment
- Driving license: Extension
- Extending the validity of a resident parking permit
- Identity card status query
- Improvement of regional economic structure Support
- Legal biotope protection
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: Issue
- Nature conservation area: Determination
- Organization or implementation of prostitution events Advertisement
- Permission to drive in protected landscape areas: Issuance
- Permission to operate a prostitution establishment
- Permit and exemption for large-capacity and heavy goods traffic: issue
- Preliminary building inquiry and preliminary building permit
- Private trips abroad with pets (dogs, cats, ferrets)
- Recovery of maintenance
- Register prostitution activity for the first time
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB XII
- Setting a waste fee
- Voluntary work Appointment as alderman
- Waste paper: disposal
- Water Supervision
- Water permit for the abstraction of groundwater: Granting
- Welfare
- Wohnberechtigungsschein: Issuance
- Zoo: Approval
Address: Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin, Stadt
Requirements
An identity card can be applied for by:
- Persons with German citizenship regardless of their age
Applications / forms
- Forms: yes
- Online procedure possible: no
- Written form required: yes
- Personal appearance: yes
The application for the issuance of an identity card in Germany is informal.
Please use the application forms provided by the German mission abroad responsible for you
Which documents are required?
When applying, you must submit:
- biometric passport photo
- if you have moved away from Germany (also: non-residents, world travelers):
- De-registration certificate from the last German place of residence, if a German place of residence is still entered in the most recent identification document;
- If your address abroad is to be entered in the ID card: additionally proof of your habitual residence abroad, e.g. foreigner's ID card, registration certificate of your host country, rental contract, telephone, electricity or gas bills.
In this respect, please note that the online function of an ID card can only be used if a foreign address is recorded.
- Your previous identity card or passport or children's passport,
- in case of loss of the old document: additionally a police report of loss;
in the case of a first-time application or changes that have occurred
- Birth/parentage certificate, alternatively German marriage/partnership certificate, German family book;
- If you are or were married/partnered:
- Marriage/partnership certificate with note on name keeping or excerpt from the family register with note on name keeping if married abroad, if applicable, name certificate according to German law;
- If applicable, certificate of acquisition of German citizenship (naturalization certificate in case of initial application);
- if applicable, certificate of acquisition of a foreign nationality;
- If applicable, doctoral degree certificate (in German or English, with name and date of birth), if the doctoral degree is not evident from a previous passport/identity card and the entry in the new passport/identity card is desired;
for children under 16 years additionally:
- for birth in Germany after 01.01.2000, if at least one parent did not have German citizenship at that time: birth register extract;
- for children of married parents: Marriage certificate of the parents;
- for children of divorced parents and sole custody of one parent: Proof of sole custody by custody decree or divorce decree; if applicable, recognition of a foreign divorce decree for the German legal sphere;
- for children born to parents who were not married at the time of birth: acknowledgement of paternity and custody agreement in accordance with the law of the child's country of residence;
- if applicable, certificate of acquisition of German citizenship;
Please bring all documents with you in the original and with a copy. Please note that in individual cases the presentation of further certificates and documents may be necessary.
What are the fees?
- for applicants under 24 years of age: EUR 52.80
- for applicants over 24 years of age: EUR 67.00
Note
Fees may be waived or reduced for those in need.
Process flow
You must apply for your ID card in person at the mission abroad responsible for you or at a citizens' registration office.
Details on how to apply abroad as well as the application form can be found on the websites of the respective mission abroad.
Overview of German missions abroad.
- Please compile the necessary documents and make an appointment by telephone, e-mail or online via the appointment booking system at the mission abroad or citizens' registration office responsible for you.
- When you apply in person, you must pay the fee - please inquire in advance about payment options (cash, giro or credit card).
- Pick up your identity card at your local diplomatic mission or citizens' registration office, or clarify the procedure for handing over documents when you submit your application.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
none
Processing duration
- for processing the application: usually 4 weeks
- Informationen zur Beantragung des Personalausweises für Deutsche mit ständigem Wohnsitz im Ausland auf der Internetseite des Auswärtigen Amts
- Übersicht der Pass- und Personalausweisstellen im Ausland auf der Internetseite des Auswärtigen Amts
- Übersicht über die Gebühren bei der Ausstellung von Personalausweisen auf einer Internetseite des Bundesministeriums des Innern, für Bau und Heimat
Legal basis
§ Section 1(4)(2) of the German Identity Card Act (PAuswG);
§ Section 8 (8) of the German Identity Card Act (PAuswG);
§ Section 35 of the German Identity Card Act (PAuswG);
§ Section 2 KonsG
- § 1 Absatz 4 Nummer 2 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG)
- § 5 Absatz 2 Nummer 9 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG)
- § 7 Absatz 2 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG)
- § 8 Absatz 2 und 4 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG)
- § 23 Absatz 4 Satz 2 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG)
- § 35 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG)
- § 2 Konsulargesetz (KonsG)
- G.5.2.1 und G.5.2.2 Personalausweisverwaltungsvorschrift (PAuswVwV)
Appeal
If your application for an identity card is rejected:
- File a complaint with the Berlin Administrative Court
