Change of residence

To register, you must complete and sign the official registration form. You must hand this in personally or instruct another suitable person to hand it in.

Depending on the offer of the municipality, it may be possible to dispense with filling in the registration form and to receive the data directly if you appear in person at the competent office. You must then confirm the accuracy of the data on a printout by signing it.

Family members and members of a civil partnership should use a joint registration form if they move from a joint dwelling to a new joint dwelling on the same day.

Following the registration, you will receive a registration confirmation.

If the competent authority of your new place of residence has opened an Internet access for the registration, you can also transmit the required information via this access using a qualified electronic signature.

You cannot use this service if you are

• move from abroad or
• use a pseudonym instead of your name in your electronic signature.

In these cases, you must register as described above.

the registration office of your new place of residence

the registration office of your new place of residence

• identity card or passport, if the person obliged to register is over 16 years of age
• 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

The registration office may request the submission of further documents which serve as proof of the information provided (e.g. birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce decree).

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If you do not comply with your obligation to re-register or do not do so in good time, you are committing an administrative offence which may be punishable by a fine.

• § 1 Absatz 1 Melderechtsrahmengesetz (MRRG)
• § 11 Melderechtsrahmengesetz (MRRG)

To vote in a parish election, you must have lived in the parish for at least three months and be eligible to vote. If you register with a municipality with your main residence, you will automatically be entered on the electoral roll for the next upcoming election or vote. Special rules apply to the European elections for foreign citizens of the Union.