Old paper and card-format driving licences are gradually becoming invalid and must be exchanged. Here you can find out how to apply for a new driving licence at the State Office for Transport (LBV).
If you are living in Hamburg without valid residence papers and need medical care, you can contact the relevant office at the Refugee Center. Further information is available here.
If you are a German citizen, you can apply for a passport. You will need a passport, especially if you want to travel to a country outside the European Union.
The tax authorities offer employers who are unable and for whom it is unreasonable to electronically access the wage tax deduction features of their employees a substitute procedure (so-called 'hardship rule'). For this purpose, the employer must ...
Do you have an old (grey or pink) paper driving licence? Here you can find out how to apply for a new EU card driving licence at the Hamburg Service on site.
If you need a registration certificate, you can apply for one locally at your registration office. You will receive a certificate from the register of residents containing the data stored about you.
If you have been diagnosed with a degree of disability of at least 50, you can apply for a severely disabled person's pass. If your severely disabled person's pass expires or you have lost it, you can apply for a new one.
Instead of the tax class combination IV / IV or III / V, spouses / partners can apply for tax class IV in connection with a factor, the so-called factor procedure. For each spouse / partner, the tax-relieving regulations are applied to their own ...
Exemptions for biological and adopted (adopted) children as well as foster children who have reached the age of 18 on January 1st are taken into account monthly as wage tax deduction features upon application by the tax office. However, they do not ...
Withholding church tax on final taxed investment income (e.g. interest from banks): Church tax on final taxed investment income has been automatically withheld since January 1, 2015 and paid to the tax-collecting religious communities. Automatic ...
Would you like to take over an alcohol-serving restaurant from someone else? In order to continue the catering business without any interruption in time, you can first apply for a temporary permit, which will later be replaced by the final permit.
Foreigners who want to stay in Germany need a residence permit. Since September 1st, 2011, the electronic residence permit (eAT) has replaced the residence permit issued as an adhesive label: the residence permit, settlement permit and EC long ...
If you are not a German citizen, you may need an electronic residence permit (eAT) as proof of your residence status. Further information can be found here.
If you want to adopt a child from abroad, you should clarify in advance whether such an adoption will be recognized in the country. Recognition is granted by the family court by means of a ruling.
With a building lease, you can build your own house on someone else's land without buying the property. You pay a regular ground rent for this. You can obtain this right for a single plot of land, for several plots of land or for existing building leases.
If you, as a guardian, want to carry out certain legal, financial and commercial transactions for your ward (person under guardianship), you must first obtain permission from the family court.
With a referendum, the citizens of a district actively decide on a district political issue. A successful referendum is a prerequisite for a referendum. All residents of the affected district who are entitled to vote at the district assembly are ...
If you have a driving license from another country in the EU or EEA and live in Germany, you must have your driving license converted into a German document under certain conditions.
