Moving within Hamburg

Prerequisites

Documents required

• Your valid identification document (identity card, passport, passport substitute) and, if applicable, additional documents
  • Your eID card or
  • Your (electronic) residence permit
• Children (up to their 18th birthday): ID card and/or passport if available, otherwise birth certificate; personal presence is not required –
• Proof of your move and your new address
  • Purchase agreement or land register extract (when moving into residential property)
  • Landlord's confirmation with the following information (the submission of the rental agreement cannot replace the landlord's confirmation):
    • Name and address of the landlord and, if the landlord is not the owner, also the name of the owner,
    • Move-in date,
    • address of the apartment as well as
    • Names of all persons moving into the apartment
• If applicable, original identification documents and written powers of attorney from the absent persons whose change of address you are reporting.
• If applicable, vehicle registration certificate part 1 (vehicle registration document)

Please note

Please clarify the procedure by telephone with the relevant authority in advance if you wish to re-register minor children up to the age of 16 without both legal guardians present.

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

The same applies if you wish 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 change their address without the consent of their legal guardians.

For spouses, life partners and family members with the same immigration data (date of immigration as well as previous and current residences), registration by one of the persons required to register is sufficient.

Married couples can register their partner's change of address to a shared residence without a power of attorney, simply by presenting their identity card.

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

The vehicle registration certificate, Part I, can be amended at the Hamburg Service Center up to a maximum of 14 days after the initial registration change. After that, please contact the Hamburg State Transport Authority.

Deadlines

Please register no later than 2 weeks after your move.

Procedure

You can register your change of address in person at the relevant office:

• 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 is changed.
• You will receive an official registration confirmation.
• If you use the online service, this is free of charge for you.

Processing time

Processing on site usually takes 6 to 8 minutes.

Fees

A fee of €16.00 per person or family group with the same moving dates will be charged for re-registration.


Using the online service is free of charge.




Changing the address on the vehicle registration certificate Part I (formerly vehicle registration document) incurs additional costs of 11.40 euros.

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