Identity Verification for Bank Accounts in Germany

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Revised procedures for ID checks for German banks:

Following the amendment of the German Money Laundering Act the German missions abroad can no longer notarize signatures or perform identity verification to open a new account, for loan applications or similar cases. This also applies to credit card applications.

Please contact the bank which sent you the documents on how to proceed.

Exempt from this new ruling are blocked accounts for foreign students who must apply for a student visa before entering Germany and who need to open an account in Germany in order to prove sufficient financial means for their stay in Germany. In these cases only, the German missions abroad are allowed to notarize signatures or to perform identity verification.

Identity Verification

Map – consular services

Interactive map of German diplomatic and consular representations in Canada

One embassy, three consulates general, and seven honorary consuls offer their consular services across Canada, each covering a specific geographic region. To find out which representation can assist you, what its hours of operation are and how to contact it, you may consult our interactive map.

Interactive map – consular services

Consular Services offered by the German Foreign Missions in Canada

This table gives you an overview on the consular services offered by the German foreign missions in Canada.

Service Overview

Book Your Appointment

Notice

In order to keep waiting periods short, the Consulates General in Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver and the Embassy in Ottawa are using an online appointment booking system, that is available to you 24/7. Please book your appointment in advance:

Appointments - Consulate in Montréal

Appointments - Consulate in Toronto

Appointments - Consulate in Vancouver

Appointments - Embassy Ottawa

Please be aware that the administrative and consular districts of the German foreign missions in Canada have changed as of March 1, 2013.
More information can be found here.

Appointments with the Honorary Consuls are being made of the phone. Please find their contact details here.

The visa section of the German Embassy in Ottawa has closed!

Schengen visa in passport

Information for residents of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario (only the National Capital Region and the following counties: Lanark; Leeds and Grenville; Prescott and Russell; Renfrew; Stormont, Dundas and Glengary), Prince Edward Island and Québec:

Additional information

No Consular Service at the German Embassy in Ottawa and the Consulate General in Montréal

Notice

Please note that neither the German Embassy in Ottawa nor the Consulate General in Montréal can offer consular services. For consular matters please contact the Consulate General in Toronto. For short-term Schengen visas, please contact the Embassy of Austria in Ottawa.

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