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.
- Annulment of the marriage
- Apply for a certificate of no impedimentContact person available
- Apply for subsequent certification of a marriage contracted by Germans abroad or with their participation
- Apply for subsequent certification of a marriage entered into abroad by persons recognized as stateless or recognized as refugees or with their participation
- Applying for a marriage certificateOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for exemption from the obligation to present a certificate of no impediment to marriage for foreigners
- Applying for subsequent certification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Issuance of a certificate of marriageability for German citizens with residence, or habitual abode abroad.Contact person available
- Issuing a certificate of no impediment to marriage for foreign persons
- Marriage consummation
- Notarisation of a marriage abroad by a German registry office
- Register marriageOnline service availableContact person available
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroadContact person available
- Apply for a change of surname as a displaced or late resettled person, their spouse or descendantContact person available
- Apply to change the child's surname by renaming or renaming backContact person available
- Change first name
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spousesContact person available
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partnersContact person available
- Change order of first names
- Declaration on the use of the name - Declaration on the use of the name of spouses without a domestic marriage or marriage entryContact person available
- Family name change child - by single parentContact person available
- Requesting a change of surnameContact person available
- Requesting a change of surname for important reasonsContact person available
- Requesting a change of the child's birth name in the event of subsequent joint custody, pseudo-paternity or a declaration of connectionContact person available
- resume one's birth nameContact person available
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth nameContact person available
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for a foreign spouse to join a German spouseOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for the reunification of other family members with a German citizenOnline service availableContact person available
- Residence permit for family reasons Issued for the family reunification of a foreign spouse with a German nationalOnline service availableContact person available