Hello, everyone! I have a family reunion visa (my wife is German) and in a couple of months I move to Germany to live together with her. She contacted her local Bürgerbüro office on the matter of what documents should I or we bring once I arrive there in order for me to be registered at her place. However, I'm a bit confused by their reply as I feel like it reads as either automated email or addresses solely her (obviously, she's already registered there).
Do we need a confirmation from her landlord that I live there prior to Bürgerbüro visit and a change of contract beforehand (right now her rental contract implies only her)? If anyone had an experience of joining their spouse and getting registered, I would like to hear your suggestions!
My visa page also has address information that I'm going to stay at her place btw.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
by Leather_Cry5430
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Just turn up with ID and your Mietvertrag, if they need your landlord’s confirmation they will tell you and give you a form, as per my last umzugs experience.
Edit: Clearly didn’t read the post correctly.
When I first came over I moved in with a German party but had zero idea of processes, language etc.
I remember anmeldung was all very smooth, but have no idea how I was linked to the address.
Just turn up, they’ll tell you everything you need to know.
It’s likely they’ll offer leeway on the confirmation, but the anmeldung won’t be complete without it.
The Bürgerbüro doesn’t need a copy of your rental contract. However, they need a Wohnungsgeberbescheinigung gem. § 19 BMG. This is a one-page document that you fill out and the landlord signs, confirming that you’re living there.
No. They went out of their way to respond in English and with a personal message. The tone is friendly: „No need for an appointment. Just drop by.“
If you want to register at a certain address, you may be asked to provide a confirming statement by the owner of the building that you live there. It is called „Wohnungsgeberbescheinigung“.
There is no official form for that. Some communities have improvised their own form. The landlord can make up his own, too.
You don’t need this, if you own the building. In that case you just declare that you live at a place that you own during registration.
Yes I think you are gonna need those documents beforehand. In my opinion any one of the two should work, but having the contact with both your names is the stronger one.
She has to inform her landlord anyways, becaue depending on the contract, it has to be updated. So why not ask him then to send a confirmation?
There is a form that your landlord has to fill out (Wohnungsgeberbestätigung). The exact form is different from city to city. Sometimes there is a form from the Bürgerbüro that you have to fill in. You can do that beforehand or usually they also have some empty forms printed out, that you can fill in there. Your Bürgerbüro should have a website that lists the documents required. You take the form(s) and ID to the appointment to register.
Best thing to do is go with your wife. No need for an appointment. If she rents the place you live in, she may bring her rental contract (even though I don’t think they will ask).
Just don’t forget your passport and visa.
Welcome – and study German as much as you can.
Usually most Bürgerbüros of any City or municipality have some form of online presence where the needed documents are explicitly mentioned. Can you share in which city you are living, I can have a look.
My husband also came here on family reunification visa. The first step should be to get you added to your wife’s rental contract of the appartment. I don’t see why she should be on it alone. Once you arrive, your wife and you should make an appointment with the landlord and they can add a page to the rental agreement which will show your information and what date you moved in. You all sign. Then, they provide a Wohnungsgeberbescheinigung (as others have said, there are no exact form for that, either the office has a template or the landlords provide their own). That doesn’t take long, maybe the landlord can provide it on the same day you sign the rental agreement. You bring that, along with your ID and residence permit/visa and voilà!
You’re lucky — the procedure looks simply and easy. Where I live, we foreigners have to deal with the Ausländerbehörde for everything, even for a simple Anmeldung :’)
Make sure that her landlord knows that you are moving in as an additional tenant. More people mean that calculations for utilities will change with more people in the calculation. For example, the landlord may have to order larger bins for trash, there will be more water usage, etc.
The landlord may (or will) refuse additional tenants if the contract states a limit or if the space available is too small to accommodate more than a certain number of tenants.
If the existing rental contract is just expanded, you will need the Wohnungsgeberbescheinigung from the landlord for registering your residence.
If you want to set it up as a subletting agreement your girlfriend will act as your landlord, and she will have to provide the Wohnungsgeberbescheinigung.
It’s already amazing that you don’t need an appointment, I’m envious.
In my city you have to get an appointment online and they update the open slots only once in the morning and all appointments are gone within minutes. Then you go there and there’s nobody there, because half the people cancel or are no-show.
You know you can change your address online in Germany. Yes in Germany you reqd that right.
Better do it online before the Germans start protesting and hurling fax machines through the windows of the Bürgerbüro to stop the digital registration
Federal States with Online Registration
According to the national portal, the service is already available in:
Berlin
Bremen
Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein
And in many municipalities across these states:
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Hesse
Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern
Lower Saxony
North Rhine‑Westphalia
Rhineland‑Palatinate
Saxony‑Anhalt
Thuringia
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