Make identity card notifications

If anything changes with regard to your ID card or the data entered on it, you must report this immediately.

The data on your ID card must always be up to date, otherwise it will become invalid. In addition, as a German citizen, you are obliged to have an ID card from the age of 16.
You are therefore obliged to notify the Citizens' Registration Office of the following:

• Name changes
• Loss of your identity card
• Theft of your identity card
• If you have found your ID card again after reporting it lost.

Note: You can also report the loss and theft of your ID card to the police.

There are 2 exceptions:

• If your address or height changes, your ID card remains valid.
• If you do not comply with the obligation to register a new address within Germany, you are committing an offense.

Please contact the identity card authority.

In the event of a change of data, e.g. change of name:

• Proof of the new name by means of a new civil status certificate (e.g. marriage certificate, register extract from the registry office about the new name)
• Biometric photograph, if applicable

You are in possession of a German identity card.

• Report the change, loss, theft or subsequent recovery to a citizens' office. You can also report loss and theft to the police.
• You can also report the loss or theft digitally if the relevant ID card authority offers a corresponding online service.

You must make the notification immediately.

Your message will be recorded immediately.

You will not incur any costs as a result of the notification.
If you report a change of name, fees may be incurred as the document must be reissued if you do not have a valid passport with the new name.