Hi. The contract of my current apartment is terminating at the end of this month, and after that, I want to temporarily put my address at my friend's place (which is in another city in the same canton). I went to the commune. They gave me a form which need to be filled and signed by both me and my friend. They told me to deregister from my current city, fill in the form, and then register in the new city.
However I still have a couple of questions.
1. The form I got is actually a sub-leasing form, in which we have to specify the rent. Actually I will pay nothing to my friend. Should I just write zero?
2. What will be my address from next month? "$MY NAME$ $NEW PLACE$", or "$MY NAME$ c/o $MY FRIEND'S NAME$ $NEW PLACE$"?
Thank you...
I don't know how it is in your canton, but if it is for a short while maybe it is better to wait until you have a new "permanent" place before you deregister and register elsewhere. It may be cheaper (if not necessarily entirely legal?) to just get the post office to forward the mail to your temporary address.
Yes actually you are right. But I don't know if it is legal. I highly suspect this...
It’s a question of how long it’s likely to be a temporary place for you. Technically you’re supposed to de-register and re-register within 8 days. But if you’re only going to be staying at your friend’s for 2/3 weeks then I’d take a chance and not de-register until it’s time to move into your new permanent abode. The thing is, every time you change something on your permit it costs you money so changing it for a stay of only a short time then changing it again will run up the bill. If temporary means a month or more then de-register and re-register at his place.
whenever you register they need a lease agreement of the new address independent of how long the stay is for and the registration itself(Change in address) will cost you.
Not always somone registered with my address. No lease no questions. I know others that changed without ever showing any form of paperwork, myself included.
Does it cost you only if you're EU or also if you're non-EU? I don't remember what the case is for non-EU when you move, whether they charge you, as the address is not shown anywhere on your permit - though as it is a biometric one, the data are accessible to authorities. I heard changing the address on a EU permit does cost you, as they send in a new paper permit.
When I changed recently (in Basel Stadt) the bill I got had an item for the change, CHF 25 apparently, and another for the emission of the new permit, CHF 10 apparently. They also charged CHF 1 for postage.
It costs whatever your nationality. We had to pay up for our change of address when we moved house and we’re EU.
Yes, I was aware that they charge you if you're EU. I'm not sure if they charge Swiss citizens, however.
Don't think it would make any difference EU or not, but in those places where the permit is still the paper type the address is actually printed on it, so clearly it needs to be changed if you move.
I should have been clearer. I'm EU with B-permit. That is why they charged me also for the re-emission of the permit I guess. My point is that they charged me CHF 20 just for the address change (plus the rest), so I think they will charge anyone that changes address.
This is why I'm asking about non-EU: the address is not printed on it, and it's biometric (not paper, but credit-card format).
In the end, it doesn't matter, it's a small amount of money. I was just wondering.
We didn't have to pay anything when we moved and changed address within the same canton. We're EU too.
Maybe it depends on which canton/ commune you live in?