Stadt Münster: Citizens office
The facilities of the Office for Citizens' Affairs are only permitted to authenticate photocopies or duplicates of documents if
If this is not the case, please ask a notary.
Please bring the appropriate copies along with you. There is also a coin-operated copier in the central office in Stadthaus I.
A copy cannot be authenticated if the original context of a document that consists of several pages is not discernible.
Documents issued by a registry office cannot be authenticated by the Citizens' Office.
The fee is 2.50 euros per page of the original.
On the topics of authentications, legalization, apostille, and obtaining documents for or from abroad please get information from the pages of the Auswärtiges Amt [Foreign Office], the Bezirksregierung [Regional Administration] - both german language - and the Bundesverwaltungsamt [Federal Administrative Office] - german language with english instruction sheets.
