Your own municipality takes the application
Passport applications are taken at the counter of your own municipality. Each office sets its own booking routine, serves visitors in its own languages, and has rules for children and for collecting the finished passport, with or without a new appointment.
Sint-Niklaas
Grote Markt 1, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
Book your application, wait for the city’s message, then collect it yourself or send someone with a power of attorney.
Bring your identity document and previous passport if held. Use a compliant professional photo or the counter camera if you can sit upright and still with your mouth closed. If someone else collects, arrange a power of attorney.
Related services
For people who cannot cover rent, food or other essentials: what the local social welfare centre can arrange and how to ask for an appointment.
A paper or digital certificate showing where you are registered, with versions for address history or household. Find the municipal office that issues it.
Reset an eID PIN, replace activation codes or set up a digital key for online services. Useful for residents, residence card holders and some non-residents.
The eID for teenagers and adults and the Kids-ID for children. See how applying works and find the municipal office that handles your card.
For anyone who has moved house in Belgium. See who reports, what happens after the address check and which office handles it in your new town.
Learn whether you need an extract or a full copy, who can request it and how to reach the civil registry office in your municipality.
Other countries
Moving on, or comparing before you decide? See how this works elsewhere.
Most offices in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Deventer
Most offices in Bielefeld, Hanover, and Leipzig
Most offices in Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville
Most offices in Warsaw, Białystok, and Kraków
Most offices in Akranes, Akureyri, and Borgarnes
Where to next
See who can apply, what is different for children and how to prepare, then find the municipal office that handles passports.
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