Your own municipality takes your departure, so start with your city
You deregister from the municipality where you currently live, so pick that city. Each office shows whether a whole household can report online or everyone has to come in person, whether it can give a certificate of deregistration, and what to bring, such as ID for everyone who is leaving.
Alkmaar
Mallegatsplein 10, 1815 AG Alkmaar
Report your move in the last five days before you leave, online with DigiD or at an appointment at the city office.
Prepare your departure date and overseas address. Bring valid identification to the counter. You cannot report for an unmarried partner without a registered partnership; they must report themselves. Inform your bank, health insurer and DUO where applicable.
Guides
Related services
For Dutch citizens renewing a passport and for residents without a passport from their own country: who can apply and what to prepare.
Get a hand with applying for or activating DigiD, and with the online forms, messages and allowances that depend on it.
See who can apply for income support, what a municipality takes into account and where to get advice if the application is difficult.
For Dutch citizens who need a new or replacement ID card: who can apply, what to bring and how collection works.
For holders of a Dutch licence: how renewal works online or at the counter, how to replace a lost licence and where to collect it.
For newcomers and returning residents: what registering at the town hall means, who it applies to and what to prepare before your appointment.
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 Liège, Charleroi, and Tournai
Most offices in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Terrassa, and Almería
Where to next
For people leaving the Netherlands: when deregistration applies, what happens to your BSN, which organisations are told, and how to start.
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