Talk:Deutsche Telekom Germany/@comment-203.106.159.100-20170318051135/@comment-24682153-20170318093253

No this is clearly wrong. There are more than million people living here without German citizenship and lots of visitors, migrants etc. You can buy a SIM card in Germany as a foreigner or non-resident. You are only required to give a German postal address for registration and to show your ID. This can be the address where friends or familiy live or where your hotel/B&B/hostel is. But it must physically exist.

In a provider store (like "T-Point" for Telekom) you can show your passport or national ID card. Online you can register on the same document, but the website may only be in German. That's why we recommend to go to a store of the provider, but that's not possible with SIM cards bought in supermarkets or petrol stations as they don't register there.

Some providers actually verify this given German address by sending you a "welcome letter". You should try that this letter is not returned to sender as unknown, if you want to use your SIM card for longer. But even then you can fax or mail your ID copy to the provider to avoid being suspended.

The online (not the in-store) registration may change this summer, as a new law requires provider to "verify" your ID. Probably a video ID verification will be introduced. Details are still unknown, but all passports (and for the Europeans other ID documents too) will still be accepted to buy a German SIM card.