Loss of residence or identity documents

Course description

You can report the following stolen or lost documents to the Foreigners Office:

• Residence document (eAT, Duldung or permit)
• ID card (only for EU citizens)
• Travel document (for refugees, foreigners or stateless persons)
• Foreign passport

If you have found your document again after reporting it lost, then revoke the loss.

Report the loss or cancellation of a lost document to us online or by post. You can make the report for your own identity documents and those of your minor children.

We will process your report of loss and have the documents placed on the wanted list. The documents blocked in this way can no longer be used for travelling.

If it is an eAT, travel document, tolerated stay permit or permit, you will receive an appointment from us to reorder the respective document after you have reported the loss.

If you have lost your eAT, you will receive a certificate of residence title from us as a replacement for use in Germany. We will arrange for the eAT to be reordered within 14 days of notification of the loss.

If the loss is revoked, it cannot always be expected that the document will be immediately cancelled worldwide in the international search systems. It is therefore possible that a recovered document cannot be used without restriction and that there may be queries when travelling internationally at a later date.

Prerequisites

You are resident in the city of Munich with your main residence and have lost your document.

Required documents

• Details of the circumstances of the loss (date, place and circumstances)
  
• Police report of loss (if available)
  
• Details of the ID card data (if known: issuing authority, ID card number/passport number/serial number and date of issue)
  
• Copy of the document concerned (if available)
  
• If the loss is revoked: notification of loss from the Foreigners Office Munich
  

Legal basis

§ Section 57a Residence Ordinance