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Re-register residence
Service Description
If you move, you must register at your new place of residence. Even if you move within the same city, municipality or administrative community, you must register with the registration office within two weeks of moving into the apartment.n.
For children up to the age of 16, the person into whose home the children are moving must register them. If necessary, the consent of the legal guardian is required.
Late re-registration can be punished with a fine.
- After moving into the apartment by personal appearance within two weeks.
- Registration before moving in is not possible.
- A family (spouse, civil partner, children) with the same, previous and future residences can be represented by a registrant. Family members do not include friends, fiancés, or persons living in a common-law relationship.
- For persons for whom a caretaker or guardian has been appointed, who has the right to determine the place of residence, the caretaker or guardian must perform the obligation to register. The guardian's identity card or the court order must be presented at the registration office.
- In exceptional cases (e.g. if a personal visit is not possible for health reasons), a change of address or registration can also take place with the presentation of a power of attorney or health care proxy (in the original). In addition, the certificate of residence and the personal documents (ID card or passport, if applicable) of the grantor of the power of attorney and the authorized representative are required.
Process flow
You must complete and sign a registration form and submit it to the registration office together with your identity card, recognized and valid passport or passport replacement document, and confirmation from your housing provider or the corresponding assignment feature. If the registration register is kept automatically, you may be exempted from filling in the registration form if you appear in person at the registration office and confirm the correctness and completeness of the data collected at the registration office on a printout by signing it. You can also be represented at the registration by a person presenting the required documents (registration documents and power of attorney).
Family members and members of a civil partnership should, if they move on the same day from a common dwelling to a new common dwelling, use a registration form together; it is sufficient if one of the registrants makes the registration.
Newborns born in the country shall be registered only if they are admitted to a dwelling other than that of the parents or the mother.
If a guardian or custodian has been appointed for a person of full age who can determine the residence, the registration is incumbent on him or her.
Following the registration, you will receive a confirmation of registration.
Who should I contact?
Please contact the registration office of your municipality.
Requirements
Actual occupation of the new apartment (this apartment will be used permanently or at least with some regularity, primarily for living and sleeping).
Which documents are required?
- Identity card or passport, if the registrant has reached the age of 16 years.
- personal documents of the family members who are registered together on one registration form
- in the case of children: Children's passport or birth certificate
- Housing provider confirmation
- completed and signed registration form (registration form is available at the registration office)
The registration office may require the submission of additional documents that serve as proof of the information (for example, birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce decree).
- Identity card and/or passport
- In the case of representation by a person subject to registration, the identity cards and/or passports of the other relatives must also be submitted for the change of address.
- Presentation of a certificate of residence
- If applicable, guardian's identity card, power of attorney, health care proxy and documents of the authorized representative.
- If a minor resident (up to the age of 16), who previously lived with both parents in a main residence, is re-registered by one parent in a new main residence, the written consent of the other parent with custody is required .
What are the fees?
No fees are incurred. However, if you do not fulfill your obligation to re-register or do not do so in time, you commit an administrative offense that can be punished with a fine.
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What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
You must register your new apartment with the registration office within two weeks of moving in.
Processing duration
Registrations are usually processed immediately.
Legal basis
What else should I know?
To vote in a municipality election, you must have lived in the municipality for at least three months and be eligible to vote. If you register with a municipality with your main place of residence, you will automatically be entered on the electoral roll for the next upcoming election or vote. Special features apply to the European election for foreign citizens of the Union.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
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Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Competent Authority
Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Stadtverwaltung - Meldeaufgaben
Visiting address
99084 Erfurt
