Registering from abroad
Do you currently live abroad and are you moving (back) to the Netherlands? Or do you want to live in Utrecht for at least 4 months in the next 6 months? You have to make an appointment to register.
What should you bring?
- A valid ID of each person you register.
- Proof that you are allowed to live in the Netherlands. Find out if you need a residence permit if you are coming to the Netherlands for a longer period of time.
- A proof of deregistration when you come from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Saba or Sint Eustatius.
- Rental contract or purchase contract of your home. Or permission from your homeowner. To do this, have the homeowner fill out the declaration of residency form (pdf, 558 kB). Please note that we will not register you before the day your rental or purchase contract takes effect.
- Original documents from abroad of yourself and your children, such as a birth certificate, marriage certificate or divorce certificate. You do not have to bring these documents if we have already seen them when you were still living in the Netherlands and nothing has changed in your situation.
We accept only English, German and French documents without translation by a certified translator. Foreign documents must comply with the rules for legalizing foreign documents.
Read more about submitting foreign documents (information in Dutch)
Making an appointment
Make an appointment for your registration within 5 days of your move.
Do you have a partner or children who are also registering? They must also come with you to the counter when you have made an appointment. Please indicate how many people are coming to the appointment.
Have you lived in the Netherlands before? Even then you must make an appointment to register again.
After your application
It may take 4 weeks before we register your application in the Basisregistratie Personen (BRP). You will also receive a citizen service number (BSN).