How to register your residence
A notice of residence can be submitted through the e-Population Register or, if necessary, by submitting a paper form to the municipal government.
Reception hours for residence and family-related procedures at the municipal office can be found here.
A notice of residence may be submitted for yourself, your minor children or persons under your guardianship, as well as for other adults living at the same address (a joint notice of residence). If the person submitting the notice is not the owner of the dwelling, the owner’s (or owners’) consent or a document proving the right to use the dwelling must be attached to the notice of residence. The owner’s consent or proof of the right to use the dwelling is not required for a person who is a family member of the owner (spouse, minor child or parent with incapacity for work) or who has a personal right of use entered in the Land Register.
When changing your place of residence within Estonia, moving abroad, or moving to Estonia from another country, you must submit a notice of residence to register your new address in the Population Register:
- within 14 days of moving to a new place of residence in Estonia;
- within 30 days of moving abroad.
Legitimate request of the owner
If a person's place of residence is registered as a property belonging to someone else, which they are not entitled to use as their place of residence and which they do not use as their place of residence, the owner of the property has the right to submit an application to the local government with the corresponding address to change the details of the persons registered as users of the property. The owner can view the details of the persons registered as users of their property on the e-population register or apply for a list of residents through the local government (free of charge).
The property’s owner must submit a written application to the local government (as an online service on the e-population register or through a digitally signed e-mail, by mail or in person at the local government), stating:
the address of the property in question;
the name of the person who is registered as a resident of the property in question in the population register;
a confirmation that the person does not have the right to and does not use the property as their residence.
The local government will notify the person of the property owner’s application within 10 working days by way of registered letter sent to the e-mail address entered in the population register or to the address entered in the population register, as well as through the journal ‘Ametlikud Teadaanded’, if the obligation to notify has not been fulfilled in any other way. If a person provides documents proving their right to use the property as their residence within one month, or if there is a litigation over the right to use the property, the owner's application will be rejected.
However, if the proceeding results in the legitimate request of the owner being granted, the person's place of residence in the population register will cease to be valid.
Contact information
Anneli Ritsing
registrar of the population register
higher education, social work
Last updated: 09.09.2026
