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I am a student and I am going to complete my studies this April and I will go back to India permanently. I live in a shared WG and we are paying the ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio Beitragsservice fee from my reference number. I want to de-register from ARD. I will de-register from the city hall by mid of April as I will leave by end of April to India.

What is the procedure to de-register from ARD. Can anyone please guide me through the same?

Will a flight ticket to India suffice as proof that I am moving out of Germany? Or what else is required? I will not be here from 1st of May. I guess I have to move out from Germany within 15 days of my de-registration from the city office. So, I don't know if that period is sufficient to de-register from ARD.

unor
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Even though as you found out calling is also sufficient, there is also a form available for this:

Abmeldung der Wohnung/en

One of the reasons listed is

Ich ziehe dauerhaft ins Ausland

(I am moving abroad)

They ask for a

Meldeamtliche Bescheinigung

for this case. That's the deregistration notice.

YviDe
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probably, now it can be done online via : https://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/buergerinnen_und_buerger/formulare/abmelden/index_ger.html

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I called up the ARD customer care and they said we can just call them and tell them when we are leaving the country and they will automatically de-register us from that month. I guess they will cross check with the city de-registration details.

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