Please enter a search term.

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

For an area outside of Lower Saxony and foreign languages, some menu items and functions are not available. Please go to the service page of the respective country.

Please specify an area.

Your selected location: Twist (497...)

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.

Reporting obligation

If you move into an apartment or move out of an apartment, you must register or deregister with the competent office within 2 weeks. If you move domestically, you do not need to deregister.

The obligation to register exists regardless of whether the person subject to the obligation to register is entitled to use the apartment (e.g. squatting) or whether he or she has a residence permit that may be required.

Apartment is any enclosed space used for living or sleeping. Apartments are also weekend houses, shared accommodation, rooms in subletting and pure sleeping places, which are used at least occasionally for living or sleeping. Size and texture are not important.

If there is more than one apartment, one of them is the main residence, the others are secondary dwellings.

The responsibility lies with the municipality, the Joint Community and the city in which you have your residence.

Landlord's certificate

There are no fees.

If you move into an apartment, you must register with the competent authority within 2 weeks.

Federal Registration Act (BMG)

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

Further Links

Single points of contact of the state of Lower Saxony, Single points of contact of the countries of Europe, advice and assistance for EU citizens and their families.

Access information on the single point of contact for the state of Lower Saxony

visit Website Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Visit advice and assistance for EU citizens and their families