Appointment-System of the German Foreign Office — Atlanta
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Welcome to the online appointment system of the German Consulate General in Atlanta.
To apply for a German passport or ID-card, you need an appointment. Appointments can only be booked online. Please book one appointment per person and per application even if you apply as a family (i.e. 1 adult, 2 children: 3 appointments). Make sure you appear on time at the beginning of your appointment. If you fail to arrive on time, you wil automatically lose your slot and need to book a new appointment.
Appointments can only be booked for 6 weeks in advance. New appointment slots are made available daily. If you are not successful in obtaining an appointment right away, please try again later.
You can find detailed information about how to apply for a German passport on our website. Please familiarize yourself with the procedures before making an appointment for your passport application.
You do not need to bring a prepaid return envelope to your appointment.
What you need to check before you book an appointment:
If your last name has changed after marriage or divorce, or if you apply for a German passport for a child for the first time, a name declaration might be necessary before the passport application.
Please read the link carefully before you book an appointment to make sure if you need a name declaration first or not! ONLY once the new name/the child's name has been registered and confirmed by the German registrar's office (Standesamt) you can book a passport appointment.
Welcome to the online appointment system of the German Consulate General in Atlanta.
Thank you for your interest in visiting Germany!
Please note that the date format for making an appointment is dd/mm/yyyy.
The German Consulate can o n l y accept applications if you are traveling to Germany as your main destination and live in our consular district.
If you are traveling to more than one of the Schengen States, and the main destination is not Germany but another Schengen State (for example France, Italy, Spain), you have to apply at the Consulate of that State.
You should apply for a visitor visa (tourism, business trips) at least 2 weeks before, but no longer than 3 months before your planned trip. If the time between your appointment and your planned trip is less than two weeks, your visa might not be ready in time.
Residence visa (study, employment, moving to Germany) have a processing time of 2 - 4 weeks.
Please go to our website for further information. The link is:
https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/05-VisaEinreise
In case you did receive a Schengen visa within the last 5 years for which your fingerprints were taken, you may send in your Schengen visa application per surface mail. We accept complete applications only. Please see following link for further information:
https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/05-VisaEinreise/-/1794614
Please ONLY use the application forms you find on our webside. Do NOT fill out just any application form you find through an internet search.
The link for the Schengen Visa application (for a stay of less than 90 days) is:
https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/05-VisaEinreise/visa-form-instructions/968992
The link for the National Visa application (for a stay of more than 90 days) is:
https://videx-national.diplo.de/videx/visum-erfassung/#/videx-langfristiger-aufenthalt
Please note the following important regulations concerning your passport/travel document:
- its validity has to extend beyond the duration of the visa you are applying for by at least 3 months
- it has to contain at least two blank pages;
- it must have been issued within the previous 10 years. If it was issued before that, your application can not be accepted. This rule also applies if the validity has been extended by the authorities of your home country.
If your passport/travel document does not meet all of these requirements, you will need to obtain a new passport before applying for a visa.
Please book only one time slot for your application. Each applicant needs one appointment. In case of multiple bookings, all of your reservation will be cancelled without giving notice!
Please note that the use of mobile devices may result in reduced functionality or wrong bookings. We therefore recommend using desktop computers or laptops when making online appointments.
This category is not for booking visa appointments!
Also for other consular services e.g. consular certificates, certifications of signatures and copies at the German Consulate General in Atlanta an appointment via this online appointment system has to be scheduled.
To apply for a German passport or for a visa for entry into German, please DO NOT use this part of the online appointment system and return to the previous menu.
Please book only one time slot per person for your application.
You can book an appointment for a certification of your signature for the following topics:
Requesting a certificate of good conduct
Declaration for renouncing an inheritance
Declaration of Consent, respectively authorizing a Power of Attorney (“Genehmigungserklärung” or “Vollmachtsbestätigung”): someone signed on your behalf a contract or declaration without having received the power of attorney from you. You are now asked to authorize this declaration retroactively, so that the contract will be legally binding.
Simple Power Of Attorney (“Vollmacht”): power of attorney for which the individual gives a lesser authorization, e.g. power of attorney for a single legal transaction that can be revoked , e.g. simple inheritance declarations
After successfully booking an appointment you will receive an e-mail to your submitted e-mail-address. This email contains a link to re-confirm or cancel your booking.
Please print out that e-mail and bring it to your appointment.
More information on consular matters can be found on our website.
New from October 2025: For citizenship applications, please use the "Citizenship" category. If you only need photocopies certified for your application, you may continue to use this category. Please note, however, that no advice on the application can be provided here.
New from November 2025: For appointments in family matters (birth registrations, name declarations, self determination) please use the corresponding category.
The German Consulate General in Atlanta can assist you with all questions concerning German citizenship. We recommend using the information on our homepage www.germany.info
Please note that German citizenship is usually automatically acquired through descent (especially when a child is born to German parents) unless the German parent was born outside of Germany after Dec 31, 1999. Therefore, there is usually no separate application needed to confirm German citizenship when a child is born to German parents in the US. The acquisition of German citizenship can usually be confirmed when applying for a passport for the child. Hence, please make an appointment in the category "German Passports / Identity Cards" in these cases.
Please make an appointment in this category if you wish to submit an application for naturalization, acquire German citizenship by declaration or renounce your German citizenship.
Please be advised that copies for applications in citizenship matters will be notarized during your appointment. It is therefore not necessary to book a seperate appointment for certificatios or obtain certified copies by an US notary public in advance.
The certification of copies for applications pursuant to Art. 116 (2) Basic Law and § 15 Nationality Act (Applications for restoration of German Citizenship for victims of Nazi persecution and their descendants) as well as applications pursuant to § 5 Nationality Act (Citizenship by declaration) are free of charge. You are required to bring the completed forms (A, E15 or EER) to your appointment and submit them at the same time, otherwise you will be charged the regular fee.
All other certifications of copies in citizenship matters (for example applications for a certificate of nationality) are subject to the regular fees.
Detailed information on family matters (birth registrations, name declarations, self determination) can be found on the joint website of the German missions in the USA.
Please note that both spouses or custodial parents must be present for a marriage name declaration or child name declaration. If the child concerned is older than 13, he or she must also be present. Applicants who are 18 years or older submit their name declaration independently.
After May 1, 2025, the name of children born abroad, who have not yet had a birth name recognized in the German legal system, will be automatically derived from the foreign birth certificate. Further information on the new naming law can be found here.
It is still possible to hand in birth registrations.
This appointment cannot be used to apply for a passport. Please book a separate appointment in the category "German Passports".