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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Will I be deregistered from the Belgian population register?
Dear readers,
The Aliens Department of the Population Department in Ghent has informed me that after returning from Thailand I must report to the counter within one year to avoid being deregistered from the population register.
Are there any Belgians or Dutch Belgians who have had the same experience and have been given permission to stay away longer than 1 year? Was that easy?
Normally the length of your stay is not checked, but when I applied for a new ID card I replied that I was traveling to Thailand for an extended period of time.
I should have kept quiet about that.
Regards,
Niek
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Dear,
The population service of the city of Ghent works correctly, see relevant legislation below.
Source : https://www.vlaanderen.be/melding-van-tijdelijke-afwezigheid
Each person must be registered in the registers of the municipality where that person has established his main residence, at the place where he actually resides for most of the year. It is also the municipality where you have to go for your official documents (eg identity card, driving licence).
If you are staying temporarily and for a short period of time outside the municipality of your main place of residence, you must inform the Civil Affairs department of your municipality. Your primary residence will not be changed by your temporary absence. You remain registered in the registers of your municipality.
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The possibilities for temporary absence (at home or abroad) are strictly limited to:
stay in a nursing home, rest home or psychiatric institution
be absent for less than 1 year for:
holiday accommodation
travel related to your health
study or business trips
professional assignments at home or abroad
student
inmates
professional military and civilian personnel
conscripts (only for non-Belgians)
federal police personnel and absent for more than 1 year
Belgian diplomatic officials
persons whose disappearance has been reported to the local or federal police for 6 months or more.
In addition, you must have a primary residence that you can return to at any time.
Procedure
You must report your temporary absence to the Civil Affairs department of your municipality. In order to avoid removal from the population register, it is possible to declare any temporary absence of more than 3 months.
A temporary absence may not last longer than 1 year. You can extend the absence once by 1 year. After that period, the municipality can assume that you are no longer temporarily absent, but are actually staying in another Belgian municipality or abroad. In that case you will be removed from the population register.
If you are uninterruptedly absent from your main place of residence for more than 6 months without reporting your temporary absence, this may give rise to an official removal by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, insofar as your current place of residence is not known.
Legislation
The possibilities of temporary absence are strictly limited to the categories of persons included in Article 18 of the Royal Decree of 16 July 1992 on the population registers and the register of foreigners (amended by the Royal Decree of 9 March 2017).
Thanks for your detailed response, Ronny.
Indeed, it also counts for holidays, in the attached link of the Flemish Government. (because some municipalities dare to mention this sometimes, but it is the rule!)
https://www.vlaanderen.be/melding-van-tijdelijke-afwezigheid
Dear Nick,
I am the author of the file 'Deregistration for Belgians', which you can find on the left and which you should read. Why does your topic not mention how long you really intend to stay in Thailand? I suppose this is no secret. There is also no mention of your source of income, which is very important, especially for the consequences of not complying with the law.
What Ronny writes here, in response, is fully headlined and written with knowledge.
I can only add that:
– if you are staying outside Belgium for more than 3 months and less than 6 months, there is indeed a REPORTING OBLIGATION. This means nothing, has no consequences for anything, so I wonder why you wouldn't? It only has consequences if you don't.
– if longer than 1 year there is indeed an OBLIGATION TO UNSUBSCRIBE and this also has little or no consequences as you can easily register again afterwards. This also has consequences if you don't do it.
I really wouldn't rely on the fact that there is no check on the length of your absence anyway. Small unforeseen events can easily result in your absence being noticed and you could be in for some serious trouble.
Walk the lawful way, that's still best.
You are right, lung addie, and thanks for your response.