Every citizen in Austria is supposed to change your registration withn 3 days after moving into a new place. The law isn't entirely clear what contitutes the process of moving. Is the process of moving considered when you physically move into a new place or is the fact of signing a lease enough requiring you to change your registration. Well I wasn't going to argue with civil servants that point, as you can only loose that argument. But I have limited time and so it didn't happen within a 3-day period after signing the lease. It was more like a 10-day period.
I wanted to do that before moving into new place since I have to go district office to do so and it usually requries some waiting. I wanted to do that beforehand, since I didn't want Daisy to have to be in the new apartment alone by herself right after moving. So today I took the time and went down to the Magistratische Bezirksamt for the 5th District right when they opened at 8 am. I was prepared to wait about 1/2 at the least to put in your paperwork and have your registration changed. I was quite surprised to find that I was only the second person waiting. And I was done changing my registration within 5 minutes. That was the fastest I've ever been in and out of the district office in my life.
Once I got to work and emailed a copy of my new registration to the city in order to change Daisy registration to the 5th district as well. Now Daisy and I are both oficially rigistered in Margareten (Vienna's 5th District).
I also forwarded a copy of my changed registration to our human resources department in order to get my 2 aditional days off for moving. I talked it out with them and we decided that they would just take 2 days off my regular vacation days, since I'm moving during my vacation. So instead of having to take 10 vacation days I will only take 8 and still have a 2 week vacation.
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