Request personal data correction in the civil register

Would you like to have your reporting data corrected or completed? You can find out more here.

The registration office is obliged to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete personal data.
If you discover that the registration authority is processing incorrect or incomplete personal data about you, you can informally request that this data be corrected or completed.

The authority will then check whether the data is indeed incorrect or incomplete. If this is the case, the data will be corrected or completed.

The competent registration authorities.

In order to prove that the personal data processed are inaccurate or incomplete, documents showing the correct data may have to be provided.

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Informal application to the registration office. It must be substantiated which data is incorrect or incomplete and how a correction or addition is to be made. Corresponding documents to prove the request for correction should be submitted

As soon as you have requested a correction of incorrect personal data by submitting the relevant documents and the authority establishes that the data is indeed incorrect, the correction will be made insofar as the authority is aware of the correct data.

You will be informed of the result of the examination of your request for correction.

The registration authority will also inform those public bodies to which the incorrect or incomplete data has been transmitted as part of regular data transmissions in accordance with the Federal Registration Act.

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Low.

In simple cases, the correction is made immediately; however, if necessary, the verification of whether the personal data is actually incorrect and the identification of the correct data takes time.

free of charge