Go to the municipality where you are registered now
The report is made where you currently live, so the right office depends on your Belgian address. Towns handle it differently: a walk-in counter, an emailed form, an online request or a phone call first. Foreign residents hand in their residence card as part of it.
Sint-Niklaas
Grote Markt 1, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
Book a departure appointment shortly before you go, and expect a neighbourhood officer to check that you have left.
Bring your identity card and PIN and your new address abroad. For a child’s departure, arrange attendance by the person with parental authority. Keep the model 8 certificate for the relevant registration formalities abroad.
Guides
Related services
For people who cannot cover rent, food or other essentials: what the local social welfare centre can arrange and how to ask for an appointment.
A paper or digital certificate showing where you are registered, with versions for address history or household. Find the municipal office that issues it.
Reset an eID PIN, replace activation codes or set up a digital key for online services. Useful for residents, residence card holders and some non-residents.
The eID for teenagers and adults and the Kids-ID for children. See how applying works and find the municipal office that handles your card.
For anyone who has moved house in Belgium. See who reports, what happens after the address check and which office handles it in your new town.
Learn whether you need an extract or a full copy, who can request it and how to reach the civil registry office in your municipality.
Other countries
Moving on, or comparing before you decide? See how this works elsewhere.
Most offices in Bielefeld, Hanover, and Leipzig
Most offices in Warsaw, Kraków, and Lublin
Most offices in The Hague, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Alkmaar
Most offices in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Terrassa, and Almería
Where to next
For residents leaving Belgium permanently. See why you report the move, what changes for your cards and which municipal office takes the report.
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