Leaving Dresden
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This is our checklist to help you thinking of all the administraive details that have to be considered before leaving Dresden/ Germany.
Upon request, we can also provide you with different templates for cancellation letters and similar documents. Just email us.
Three months before departure
- Cancel your rental agreement
Please check your contract for the termination period. Three months is a very common time frame to cancel rental agreements. - Cancel electricity, water, gas, TV, internet, phone contracts
- Cancel insurances and all other contracts
- Deregister your children at their day-care and school
Two weeks before departure
- Deregister your car
- Apply for redirection of your mail at the post office
If this is advantageous for you, there are three options for the redirection of you mail: order a relocation notice (Umzugsmitteilung: senders get a message with your new address), apply for a redirection order (Nachsendeauftrag) or get your mail scanned and via e-mail (E-Postscan)
See the link for all information from the Deutsche Post (german) - Complete your tax return due on the 31 July for the previous year
One week before departure
- Close down your bank account
- Join the alumni network of your university/ institution
- give notice of departure at the Residents Registration Office (Bürgerbüro: adresses and opening hours)
- Cancel the payment of public television fees (Rundfunkbeitrag)
You need to already have the confirmation of city deregistration. It is possible to do the cancellation online here. - inform the Familienkasse (Kindergeld) that you are going to leave Germany
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