What should a foreigner do if they change their address?

Verified 13 June 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

If you are a foreigner, that you have a residence permit of longer than 1 year and you have moved (in the same commune or another), you must declare your new home within 3 months of your move.

You need to do this online:

Apply online for a residence permit, a change of situation, a travel document, an application for ANEF naturalization

To make your request via the Internet, you must provide in digital all subsequent documents (they must be legible):

  • Residence permit
  • Passport (pages on civil status, validity dates and entry stamps)
  • Proof of domicile less than 3 months old.

If you ask a new residence card, you must also provide proof of payment of the tax and/or stamp duty to be presented when the card is handed over.

Your change of address declaration will be saved for free. You will receive a certificate to be kept.

FYI  

The manufacture ofa new residence card is not mandatory. If you do the demand, you must pay €25 by tax stamps, unless you are an EU nationalEU, of theEEE or the Swiss Confederation or a member of the family of such a national.