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

If you wish to re-register minor children up to the age of 16 without both legal guardians, please contact the relevant authority by telephone in advance.

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 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 register their change of address without the consent of their legal guardians.

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

Married couples can register their partner in a shared apartment without a power of attorney, but only by presenting their identity card.

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

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

Costs of €16.00 per person or family group with the same moving dates will apply.


Using the online service is free of charge.


A change of address on the vehicle registration certificate Part I (formerly vehicle registration document) within 14 days of re-registration will incur 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