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If you have several residences in the federal territory, you must declare to the registration office which of these residences is your main residence.

Main residence is:

• if you are married or in a civil partnership and live only temporarily separated from your family or your civil partner: the predominantly used dwelling of the family or the civil partnership.
• if you are married or in a civil partnership and live permanently separated: Your predominant home
• if you are a minor: the main home of your parents or foster parents. If they live separately, the main residence is the residence in which you mainly live.
• Only if the predominantly used dwelling cannot be determined beyond doubt, the focus of the living relations is to be taken into account. Indications for this are, for example, the type of dwelling, personal ties, social and communal political activities as well as membership in clubs and other organisations.

A secondary residence is any other residence within the country. You can therefore have one main residence and several secondary residences.

If you change your main residence, you must inform the competent registration office.

Identity card or passport

You have several flats in the federal territory.

Within the specified period, usually free of charge. However, depending on a local fee statute, a processing fee may be charged in individual cases.

If your circumstances change and one of your secondary residences becomes your main residence, you must inform the registration office responsible for the new main residence.

Note: You must also state which flats you have in the federal territory and which of them is your main flat every time you register or deregister. This applies regardless of whether you change your main residence or not.

Processing usually immediately on site

You must notify the change of main residence within two weeks to the registration office responsible for the new main residence.

Please note that when you change your main residence, the address or place of residence in your documents must also be changed. You can find out how to do this in the"Moving house" section and the associated services.

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