Apply for a temporary passport

• You apply for the temporary passport in person.
• The application is completed on site at the citizens' office. All you have to do is sign it.
• You will receive your temporary passport immediately.

Responsibility lies with the municipality and the city in which your main residence is located.

• It is no longer possible to obtain a passport through the expedited process in time.
• You have German citizenship.
• There must be no grounds for refusing a passport. This includes, for example, the assumption that you will be able to obtain a passport by leaving the country.
  • a criminal prosecution,
  • the execution of a sentence or
  • want to evade a statutory maintenance obligation.

• Biometric digital passport photo: taken on site at the authority or by a registered domestic photo service provider (photographer)
  • When applying at German diplomatic missions abroad, exceptions may apply and a paper passport photo may be required
• Previous passport or identity card
• civil status certificate, if applicable, such as birth or marriage certificate
• Proof that the temporary passport is necessary, for example:
  • Flight tickets
  • other travel documents

• Section 1, paragraph 2, item 3 of the Passport Act (PassG)
• § Section 6 of the Passport Act (PaßG)

• You cannot change your name in your temporary passport at a later date.
• If you lose your temporary passport, you must report this immediately.

• Notification of the loss/retrieval of an identity card, passport, child ID card, temporary identity card or temporary passport