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As persons subject to registration, you must notify the registration office of any change in your main residence within two weeks.

If you have several residences in Germany and the status of your residence has changed (main residence is now used as a secondary residence or secondary residence is now used as the main residence without any move-in or move-out to a new residence or from a previous residence), you are required to notify the relevant registration office.

Main residence is:

• If you are married or in a civil partnership: the predominantly used home of the family or the civil partnership. This also applies if you are only temporarily living apart from your family or civil partner.
• If you are married or in a civil partnership and live permanently separated: Your predominantly used home.
• If you are a minor: the predominantly used 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 organizations.

At the same time, you are required to inform the registration office of any other residences (secondary residences) you have in Germany in addition to your main residence.

A secondary residence is any other residence in Germany. You can therefore have one main residence and several secondary residences.

Please bring a personal document (for example, identity card or passport as proof of identity and to change the apartment details).

You have several residences in Germany.

Your previous main residence is used by you as a secondary residence or your previous secondary residence is used as your main residence.

none

Personal appearance at the competent registration office is mandatory.

none (the change of status is entered directly in the population register at the registration office)

You are obliged to notify the relevant registration office of the change of status of your residence within two weeks.

The period begins with the day on which a change of the previous residence has taken place.

• Change in the status of the apartment
• Any change in the main residence (for example, previous secondary residence is used as the main residence and the previous main residence is now used as a secondary residence) must be reported to the relevant registration office.
• The registration office for the new main residence is responsible.

Registration authorities in the independent cities, large cities belonging to a district, administrative districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The registration authority for the new main residence is responsible

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the competent registration authorities are the mayors of the independent cities, the mayors of the large cities belonging to a district and of the independent municipalities, and the heads of the municipal offices as local registration authorities.

Some registration authorities offer forms on the Internet.

• Online procedure possible: generally no
• Written form required: possible
• Personal appearance required: in principle yes

If the registration office in your place of residence has opened Internet access for registration matters, you can use this access to transmit the required information using a qualified electronic signature in accordance with the Signature Act.