Wohnsitz Änderung innerhalb der selben Stadt oder Gemeinde

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.verwaltungsvorschriften-im-internet.de/bsvwvbund_27092022_VII2201041418.htm

If you move within Hamburg, you must re-register.

If you have moved within Hamburg, you must re-register. You must have your new address changed in your official documents. This may affect

• Your identity card,
• Your eID card or
• Your electronic residence permit.

The data on the chip of your document will be changed by the responsible authority.

You will receive a registration confirmation.

If you re-register, your previous residence will be deregistered by the responsible authority or retained as a secondary residence.

• Your valid identification document (identity card, passport, passport substitute) and, if applicable,
  • Your eID card or
  • Your (electronic) residence permit
• 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

They moved within Hamburg.

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.

• 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 under the following conditions:
  • 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 on site usually takes 6 to 8 minutes.

Please register no later than 2 weeks after your move.

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).

• Contradiction
• Action for annulment
• Action for an order

• Re-registration of the apartment
  • Entering the new address in the existing official documents such as
  • Identity card
  • eID card
  • electronic residence permit
• The address change on the chip of the document occurs when you re-register and change your address in the residents’ register
• Receipt of registration confirmation
• Deregistration of the old address is carried out by the responsible authority
  • the old apartment can be kept as a secondary residence

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