Apply for a change of residence in your passport

If your place of residence in Germany changes:

• Contact the registration office responsible for you.
• You can authorise another person in writing to change your place of residence in your passport at your local registration office.
• You can have your passport amended at the same time as you re-register in Germany. Please present your valid passport when re-registering.
• The registration office will affix an official residence sticker with your new place of residence to a free space in data field 11 or on the page for official endorsements in your passport.

If your place of residence changes abroad:

• You can register with the German diplomatic mission responsible for your new place of residence abroad, for example at an embassy or consulate.
• There is no obligation to register with a German diplomatic mission abroad.

• You have a valid passport.
• Your place of residence has changed.
• You bring your passport with you to the authority for re-registration.

• valid passport
• current official confirmation of registration,
  for proof to be provided abroad, please contact the relevant German diplomatic mission abroad.
• by proxy:
  • Power of attorney

• § Section 15 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)

• § Section 15 Passport Act (PassG)
• § Section 19 (3) of the Passport Act (Passgesetz - PassG)
• § Section 23a of the Federal Registration Act (BMG)
• § Section 1 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
• § Section 15 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
• Annex 1b Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
• Annex 1c Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
• Annex 11 Table 4 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Ordinance - PassV)
• § Section 21 (2) number 21.2.8 General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Passport Act (Passport Administration Regulation - PassVwV)

• Contradiction
• Action for avoidance
• Compulsory action

There are no indications or special features.

• Passport change due to change of residence
• only the place of residence, not the address, is stated in the passport
• A change of residence in Germany must be entered in the passport
• Changes should be made immediately
• No change necessary if new address is in the same place of residence or if you are moving abroad
• Change of residence takes place:
  • personally or
  • by another person with written authorisation
• The passport can be amended at the same time as the change of registration
• The place of residence is changed by means of an official residence sticker in a free space in data field 11 or on the page for official endorsements
• the change of residence in the passport is free of charge
• When moving abroad: a change of residence can be reported to a German diplomatic mission abroad (embassy or consulate), but there is no obligation to register.
• Responsible: Registration office or German mission abroad (embassy or consulate)