Applying for a civil partnership certificate for a civil partnership entered into abroad
The registry office will issue you with certificates and certified printouts from the civil partnership register on request. If your civil partnership was concluded abroad, this civil status must have been certified once by the registry office in Germany.
You, your civil partner and your direct ancestors and descendants can apply to the registry office for a civil partnership certificate. Under certain conditions and upon application, other persons may also be issued with your civil partnership certificate.
The civil partnership certificate proves the establishment of a civil partnership and contains the following information:
- Place and date of the establishment of the partnership
- First name and surname at the time the partnership was established
- Place and date of birth of both persons
- Gender of the civil partners
- Details of religious affiliation
What happens if your civil status data or that of the other person changes, for example due to a change of name or dissolution of the civil partnership?
Then the relevant registry office will supplement the civil partnership entry with a subsequent certification. Upon request, it will then issue you with a new civil partnership certificate.
Who should I contact?
A certificate is usually issued by the registry office that keeps the underlying register.
Responsible authorities
Bürgerservice
Contact
- Haren (Ems):
- 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
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a civil partnership certificate
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for an International Mortuary Passport
- Apply for an eID card as a European citizen
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Applying for a civil partnership certificate for a civil partnership entered into abroad
- Birth certificate issuance
- Certificate of good conduct extended
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Children's passport report for theft
- Declaration of the right to a name
- Driving licence: Extension - driving licence of categories C and D
- Driving licence: issue
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Identity card status query
- Information on the population register Provision to parties and voter groups
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: Issue
- Lost property
- Marriage consummation with same-sex partner
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Notification of a death
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- Passport issuance new due to change of other data
- Passport issuance new due to expiry of validity
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport status query
- Place of residence Deregistration of main residence
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Recognition of paternity
- Registration certificate issued
- Reporting obligation
- Request simple information from the population register
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- Agriculture: damage caused by game
- Apply for a death certificate
- Apply for a marriage certificate
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Birth Indication
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Certificate of eligibility
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Change of residence
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Confirmation of landlord
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Declaration of resignation from the church
- Documents and copies: Certification
- Express passport issue
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Have address and personal data changed
- ID card issue
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Information blocking device
- Information from the Central Trade Register Application
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Marriage consummation with foreign partner
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport issuance new due to change of name upon marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report for theft
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Population register information issuance extended
- Residence Deregistration of secondary residence
- Register marriage
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Requesting a vehicle to be taken out of service
- Residence Deregistration
- Residence Deregistration for boatmen and seafarers
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Residence Registration as main residence
- Residence Registration for boatmen and seafarers
Requirements
- The civil partnership entered into abroad must have been subsequently notarized in Germany and recorded in the civil status register.
- Only you can submit the application as a civil partner.
- A direct ancestor or descendant can only submit the application if both partners are already deceased.
Applications / forms
Forms:
Online procedure possible:
Written form required:
Personal appearance required:
The possibility of online procedures varies depending on the registry office.
Which documents are required?
as a life partner:
- Proof of identity:
- Identity card,
- passport or
- suitable identification document.
as direct ancestor or descendant:
- Proof of identity:
- Identity card,
- passport or
- suitable identification document.
- Proof of eligibility to apply
as another person:
- Proof of identity
- Identity card,
- passport or
- suitable identification document.
- Proof of legal interest or legitimate interest
What are the fees?
Fees will be charged. Please contact the responsible office.
Fee: 15,00 EURPayment in advance: noIssue of a civil partnership certificate
Emission: 7,50 EURPayment in advance: noFor each additional copy of the civil partnership certificate if it is requested at the same time as the first copy.
Process flow
If you are entitled to apply for a civil partnership certificate or a certified printout from the register, you can submit the application in writing and electronically to the registry office that has subsequently certified the civil partnership:
The registry office will check the application and authorization and then issue you with the certificate or the certified printout from the register.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
You do not have to meet any deadlines.
The period of 80 years for the civil partnership register to be kept by the registry office must not have expired.
Processing duration
It usually takes 2 to 10 days to process the application.
Appeal
If the registry office refuses to issue the civil partnership certificate, you can apply to the competent court to order the registry office to issue the certificate.
