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Apply for exemption from the ID card requirement for permanently housed persons

Service Description

If you are likely to be permanently accommodated in a hospital, nursing home or similar institution, then you can be exempted from the obligation to have an ID card - in other words, from the obligation to have an ID card.
This is the case, for example, if you are no longer able to live in your home because of your medical condition.
If you are no longer able to apply for the exemption for yourself, an authorized person can do this for you.
You can cancel the exemption at any time. All you need to do is apply for an identity card or passport.

Process flow

You can apply for exemption from the ID card requirement in writing.

  • You fill out the application for exemption from the ID requirement in full, or
  • You or a caregiver sign the application.
  • You attach the necessary documents.
  • You send the application and the documents to the relevant ID card authority in your municipality or
  • You go in person to the competent authority.
  • The authority issues you an unlimited certificate stating that you are exempt from the ID card requirement.
  • If you apply in person, you will immediately receive confirmation of the exemption. If you apply in writing, the competent authority will send you the confirmation.

Requirements

  • You must have German citizenship.
  • You must be at least 16 years old.
  • You are expected to be permanently housed in a hospital or nursing home or similar institution.
  • You must be registered with your main place of residence in your municipality.

Which documents are required?

  • written request
  • as far as available: your old identity card or passport
  • if applicable, proof that you are likely to be permanently accommodated in a hospital, nursing home or similar institution, for example by means of a certificate from the family doctor, the hospital, the nursing home or the nursing service

What are the fees?

There are no costs involved.

Applications / forms

  • Complaint to the superior authority, alternatively to the Ministry of the Interior of the federal state.

Appeal

Forms available: Yes
Written form required: Yes
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No

Online services available: No

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs

Professionally released on

01.09.2022

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

No competent authority found