Registration at domicile and/or temporary residence or removal from the record

The record of inhabitants is kept by registering at the domicile and/or temporary residence in publicly owned or privately owned dwellings, or in other habitable premises regulated by the legislation in force.

Persons may have only one domicile and/or temporary residence simultaneously. If they have more than one dwelling, they may establish their domicile or temporary residence in any of them. 

The registration of the person at the temporary residence does not entail compulsory removal from the domicile record. 

Domicile registration is carried out at the same time as the removal from the previous register, without the deletion notice. 

Registration at the domicile or temporary residence of a child who has not reached the age of 14 years shall take place at the domicile or temporary residence of the parents, one of the parents or the legal representative, unless otherwise determined by the court.

The application for registration at the domicile and/or temporary residence or removal from the record shall be submitted in person or by the authorized representative by a power of attorney authenticated by a notary or other persons authorized by law to do so or by a power of representation based on electronic signature, recorded in the Register of powers of representation based on electronic signature.

If the change of domicile or temporary residence is not a condition for the change of the identity document, other persons are allowed to apply, namely:

  • in the case of a child, including a child without parental care or a child without parental care over whom guardianship or curatorship is established, as well as in the case of a person subject to a measure of judicial protection in the form of guardianship, the appropriate legal representative of the applicant (one of the parents, guardian, curator) acts as the applicant. The concept of child does not include a minor who has acquired full capacity of exercise until the age of 18 years under Article 26 paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova.
  • in the case of a child separated from his or her parents, including a child placed in a family-type placement service, with the exception of guardianship/curatorship service, or in a residential-type placement service, the application shall be submitted by the territorial guardianship authority within the territorial jurisdiction of which is the place of stay or placement of the child due to the temporary stay of the parents/single parent for a period of more than two months in another locality in the country or abroad, as well as in the case of a child with the status of a child temporarily left without parental care or a child left without parental care who has not been placed in the guardianship/curatorship service, the application shall be submitted by the territorial guardianship authority in whose records the child is;
  • in the case of a child having the status of a child temporarily left without parental care or a child left without parental care over whom no guardianship or curatorship is established or has been revoked in accordance with the legal provisions and who is placed in a family or residential-type care, or in an institution of public social assistance, education, teaching, treatment or other similar institution, the application shall be submitted, as the case may be, by the professional parental assistant or the parent-educator or the administration of the respective placement services, on the basis of the agreement of the legal representative and the provision to this effect of the territorial guardianship authority, within whose territorial jurisdiction is the place of placement of the child;
  • in the case of pupils, students, master students, doctoral students, residents and clinical secondary students accommodated in dormitories, of military personnel serving military service on term, as well as elderly persons, persons with disabilities, persons undergoing treatment by coercion, interned or placed in care or placement in social care institutions, specialized healthcare institutions (retirement homes, placement centres, rehabilitation centres, multifunctional community centres, psychoneurological institutions, and other similar institutions), persons sentenced to imprisonment serving their sentence in penitentiary institutions - during the period of imprisonment, and in the case of persons sentenced to life imprisonment - permanently, socially disadvantaged homeless persons temporarily placed in social centers, the application for registration for temporary residence may be submitted through the representative of the service responsible for the record of the tenants in the habitable premises or through an employee of the institution delegated with such duties.
  • other persons empowered by law to act in such a capacity may submit the application by power of representation on the basis of the electronic signature, recorded in the Automated Information System "Register of powers of representation based on electronic signature" (MPower).

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    Step 1. Submitting the application

    The application for registration at domicile and/or temporary residence or removal from the record shall be submitted in the following ways:

    • in the country, at any service for issuing identity documents, including within the Multifunctional Centre of the Public Services Agency;
    • abroad, at the Diplomatic Missions or Consular Offices (DMCO) of the Republic of Moldova. In the absence of the DMCO in the applicant's state of residence, the application may be submitted to any DMCO.

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    Step 2. Paying for the service

    Payment is made via the Government Electronic Payment Service MPay.

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    Step 3. Processing and Examination

    Checking the documents required for registration at the domicile and/or temporary residence. Drawing up the application-questionnaire depending on the service requested (certifying the identity of the person and the data recorded in the application-questionnaire, printing the extract from RBI/RSUATA/RSUD, printing the declaration/declarations, printing the letter of notification regarding the change of domicile/temporary residence and filling it in, as the case may be).

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    Step 4. Final result

    At the counter of the territorial subdivision of the PSA takes place:

    • Handing over of the identity card of the citizen of the Republic of Moldova of generation II or III - in case of initial registration at the domicile, change of domicile or modification, rectification, completion of the domicile address;
    • Application of the mention regarding the domicile/residence in the reserved place on the accompanying sheet to the identity card of generation I, provisional identity card;
    • Application of the mention regarding the residence in the place reserved on the accompanying sheet to the identity card of the citizen of the Republic of Moldova of generation II and III;
    • Updating the data in the RSP regarding the registration of domicile and/or temporary residence.

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