Apply for an International Mortuary Passport
You want to transport a deceased person to a place outside Lower Saxony. In order to be able to carry out the transport, an international mortuary passport may be required. You can also have it applied for by the funeral home in charge of the transport.
Who should I contact?
The responsibility lies with the health authorities of the district or the district-free city.
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 certificate of release from the public prosecutor's office required for the issuance of an international mortuary passport in the event of an unexplained cause of death or an uncertainly identified deceased person is available.
- The transport regulations in accordance with the International Convention on the Transport of Corpses are complied with.
Applications / forms
Informal application
Which documents are required?
- written, informal application
- in case of application by a funeral home: written power of attorney
- Certificate of proper coffin and compliance with the transport regulations in accordance with the International Convention for the Carriage of Corpses (IALB) by the funeral home
- Death certificate with confidential section
- Death certificate or death notice from the registry office
- Certificate of release from the public prosecutor's office in case it is not a natural death or the deceased person cannot be identified with certainty.
What are the fees?
Fee: 40,00 EURPayment in advance: no
Process flow
The application can be submitted either by you as a private individual or by the commissioned funeral home to the health department of the place of death.
Only when all the necessary documents have been obtained and all requirements have been met can the health department process the application for the issuance of an international mortuary passport.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
There are no deadlines to be observed.
What else should I know?
When transporting a corpse abroad, the legal regulations of the destination country and the countries of transit must be observed. Information can be obtained from the relevant consulates and embassies of these countries.
Appeal
- Complaint
