Apply for a change of address for an eID card
If you have an eID card and your address changes, you must also change your address on your eID card. If you have a primary residence, to change your address on your eID card, you will need to go to the Resident Affairs Office at your primary residence. If...
If you have an eID card and your address changes, you must also change your address on your eID card.
If you have a primary residence, to change your address on your eID card, you will need to go to the Resident Affairs Office at your primary residence.
If you are not required to register, the eID card authority in whose district you live at the time of the change of address is responsible for you.
Your address will only be changed on the chip of your eID card because no address is printed on the card itself.
Important notes
Prerequisites
You must have moved.
You must have an eID card.
Documents required
current official registration confirmation
Please note
No
Deadlines
You must have your new address changed immediately on the chip of your eID card.
Procedure & Fees
Procedure
- You report in person to the office responsible for you for resident affairs
- You present your current official confirmation of registration and your valid eID card
- Your location for resident affairs will then change your address on your eID card free of charge
Processing time
The processing time is a few minutes.
Fees
There are no costs.
Legal notes
Legal remedies
- contradiction
- legal challenge
- obligation action
Legal basis
- § 4 Paragraph 4 Number 5 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act - eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__4.html - § 6 Paragraph 1 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act - eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__6.html - § 7 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act – eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__7.html - § 12 Paragraph 4 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act - eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__12.html - § 20 Paragraph 1 Number 1 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act - eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__20.html - § 21 Paragraph 1 Number 1 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act - eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__21.html - § 25 Sentence 1 Number 7 Act on a card for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area with a function for electronic proof of identity (eID Card Act - eIDKG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eidkg/__25.html - § 36b Ordinance on identity cards, eID cards for Union citizens and members of the European Economic Area and electronic proof of identity (ID Card Ordinance - PauswV)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswv/__36b.html
Downloads & Links
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Last updated: 12.05.2024