Letter address
With a postal address, you can be reached by the government even without a residential address. A letter address is only an administrative address; you do not live there. You cannot use a postbus as a letter address.
Please note! If you are staying somewhere or living in a vacation home, you must register there. These are also residential addresses. You are not eligible for a mailing address.
You can register at a letter address only in the following situations:
- You are homeless or homeless
- You reside in a care facility, youth facility, shelter or prison
- You stay abroad for less than 8 months per year
- Short-term housing between two residential addresses
- You have no fixed place of residence due to your occupation, for example, as an inland waterway barge master or international truck driver
- You live at an address that cannot be recorded as a residential address for security reasons
You must register in the Basisregistratie PersonenBRP) if you live in the Netherlands for at least four months in a year. You do this with your home address. Are you temporarily staying with a friend or relative? Then this is your home address and you must register at that address.
Are you leaving abroad for eight months or more? If so, you cannot apply for a postal address. You must deregister from the municipality by filing a declaration of emigration with the civil affairs department. More information can be found on the webpage moving abroad.
If you live in a vacation park, you must be registered at that address under the Dutch Residence Registration Act ( BRP ), because that is where you actually reside. This will then be listed as a residential address in the Dutch Population Register ( BRP ) and not as a mailing address. For more information, see the page on living in a vacation home.