Moving within Hamburg

Prerequisites

Documents required

• Your valid identification document (identity card, passport, passport substitute) and, if applicable,
  • Your eID card or
  • Your (electronic) residence permit
• Children (up to 18th birthday): if available, ID and/or passport, otherwise birth certificate; personal presence is not required –
• Proof of your move and your new address
  • Purchase contract or land register extract (when moving into residential property)
  • Confirmation of accommodation provider with the following data:
    • Name and address of the landlord and, if he is not the owner, also the name of the owner,
    • Move-in date,
    • Address of the apartment and
    • Names of all persons moving into the apartment
• if applicable, original identification documents and written authorizations of the absent persons whose move you are reporting
• if applicable, vehicle registration document

Please note

Please contact the responsible authority in advance by telephone if you wish to re-register minor children under the age of 16 without both legal guardians.

If you want to re-register your minor child, who has previously lived with both parents in a main residence, into your new main residence without the other parent, you will need the consent of the other parent, a written agreement on the child's center of life or a family court decision on the transfer of sole right of determination of place of residence.

The same applies if you want to change the sole or main residence of your minor child from the residence of one parent to the residence of the other parent.

From the age of 16, minors can re-register without the consent of their legal guardians.

If you own a car, you must also have your address changed on the registration certificate part I (formerly the vehicle registration document).

Deadlines

Please register no later than 2 weeks after your move.

Procedure

• You can make an appointment online or by calling 115.
• You bring all necessary documents with you to the appointment and present them.
• You change your address.
• Your address will be changed in the residents’ register.
• Your address will be changed in your official documents.
• You will receive a registration confirmation.
• You pay the fee.

You can re-register online:

• You have a valid German identity card or a valid eID card.
• You access the online service.
• You register to use it.
• You log in to the online service with your user account.
• You enter all the required data.
• Your address will be changed in the residents’ register.
• You may receive address stickers that you can stick on your identity card over the old address.
• If there is a chip in a document, the address on it will be changed.
• You will receive an official registration confirmation.
• If you use the online service, it is free of charge for you.

Processing time

Processing on site usually takes 6 to 8 minutes.

Fees

There is a charge of EUR 13.00 per person or family unit with the same moving dates.


If you use the online service, it is free of charge for you.


If the address on the registration certificate I (formerly vehicle registration document) is changed within 14 days of the change of registration, costs of 11.40 euros will be incurred.

Legal remedies

• Contradiction


• Action for annulment


• Action for an order

Legal basis

Federal Registration Act (BMG)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bmg/index.html


General administrative regulation for the implementation of the Federal Registration Act (BMGVwV)

https://www.verwaltungsgesetze-im-internet.de/bsvwvbund_27092022_VII2201041418.htm