Services and information on the topic: Marriage
Have you found your partner for life and do you want to make it official? Which authorities do you need to inform of your change in status and perhaps name when you get married? When planning and preparing for your wedding, you need to provide numerous different certificates, agree on the time and place, and clarify questions relating to property. Local registry offices are responsible for the majority of the government services you will need.
- Application for a certificate of no impediment to marriage for German nationals, stateless persons, homeless foreigners or foreign refugees within the meaning of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with habitual residence in GermanyContact person available
- Apply for a marriage certificateOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad as stateless persons or persons recognized as refugees or with their participation
- Applying for subsequent certification of a marriage
- Certificate of no impediment to marriage Exemption for foreignersContact person available
- Certificate of no impediment to marriage Issuance of Germans without ever residing in Germany
- Issuance of a certificate of no impediment to marriage for stateless persons, persons entitled to asylum, recognized refugees and persons whose nationality cannot be determined with habitual residence in Germany
- Marriage annulmentContact person available
- Marriage consummationContact person available
- Marriage Registration of marriages concluded abroad by Germans without domicile in Germany
- Notarisation of a marriage abroad by a German registry officeContact person available
- Register marriageContact person available
- First name change
- First name Change of order
- NameContact person available
- Naming rightsContact person available
- Submit a declaration on the name of spouses without a domestic marriage or marriage entry
- Surname Change Child - Declaration of Affiliation
- Surname Change Child - Naming
- Surname Change due to the declaration of expellees, ethnic German repatriates, their spouses and descendants
- Surname Change due to the declaration on the use of names of spouses (married name)Contact person available
- Surname Change due to the declaration on the use of the name of life partners (civil partnership name)
- Surname Change of child - Redefinition of the birth name in the case of joint custody established later
- Surname Change Re-adoption of maiden name
- Residence permit for family reasons extension for other family reunification to a GermanOnline service available
- Residence permit for family reasons extension for the family reunification of a foreign spouse to a GermanOnline service available
- Reunification for family reasons (to Germans) - apply for a residence permitOnline service availableContact person available