Certification of fingerprints for submission to foreign authorities
Beglaubigung von Fingerabdrücken zur Vorlage bei ausländischen Behörden
Machine translation of the German page, 2026-09-15. The German original is binding.
Do you need a set of your fingerprints for a visa application, a certificate of good conduct (Führungszeugnis), or your new national passport?
Fingerprints are one of the best-known and most suitable means of identifying a person. For this reason, they are also required by other states — not only for police investigations — for example in connection with a visa application or for a certificate of good conduct (Führungszeugnis) from your home country. More and more states are also moving to include fingerprints in national passports.
• As a rule, you can have your fingerprints taken at your consulate or embassy. Sometimes, however, the embassies or consulates of your home country are not located near Berlin. To spare you time-consuming journeys, the Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (State Office for Civil and Regulatory Affairs) offers the taking of fingerprints for consular purposes as a service.
Book an appointment
Book an appointment (service.berlin.de)
Requirements
• You are registered in Berlin with your main residence
Fingerprinting at the Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (State Office for Civil and Regulatory Affairs, LABO) is only possible if you have your main residence in Berlin. You can prove your main residence in Berlin with your Personalausweis (identity card) or a Meldebescheinigung (registration certificate) together with your national passport. The Meldebescheinigung can also be obtained on site, so you do not need to go to the Bürgeramt (citizens' office).
• Personal attendance is required
Documents you need
• Your Personalausweis (identity card) or national passport
• Documents from your embassy
If your embassy has given you a special fingerprint form, please bring it with you to the appointment.
Fees
• 15.00 Euro
• if a photo also needs to be certified, plus 5.00 Euro
Legal basis
• Gesetz über das Verfahren der Berliner Verwaltung (VwVfG BE) (Act on the Administrative Procedure of the Berlin Administration) <http://gesetze.berlin.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=VwVfG+BE&psml=bsbeprod.psml&max=true&aiz=true>
Processing time
immediately
Who is responsible
Unless the respective embassy handles this itself, if you are registered in Berlin with your main residence, you can obtain this service only from the Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (State Office for Citizen and Regulatory Affairs), Zentrale Einwohnerangelegenheiten (Central Residents' Affairs).
If you live elsewhere in Germany, contact your responsible city or municipal administration.
Responsible for you
Choose a location; the appointment itself is booked on the original page.
- Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO)
- Pass- und Ausweisangelegenheiten in Sonderfällen / Apostillen / BeglaubigungenFriedrichstr. 219, 10969 Berlin
Original
Service number 320310 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/320310/