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Here is a good list:A Florida resident has a true, fixed and permanent home in Florida. Certain actions establish residency; other actions only indicate intent to establish residency. Combining the two action groups result in a well-documented change of residency to Florida.Actions to establish residency—the minimum requirements:File a Declaration of Domicile: File a Declaration of Domicile in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court in which you intend to reside. You may download the declaration from your Florida County’s website. The counties require notarization of the form. The clerk’s office usually has a notary public on site. If the state of your former residence has a Declaration of Non-domicile, consider filing it. Some Florida counties include the Declaration of Domicile on the homestead property tax exemption form.Apply for a Homestead property tax exemption: Qualify for the homestead property tax exemption if you own your Florida residence. You have until March 1 to file for the homestead property tax exemption with the County Property Appraiser in your Florida county of residence. You may follow the links to the specific county property appraiser site to download the county’s homestead exemption application (Florida Dept. of Revenue). Call the appraiser’s office to see if you need to submit the form in person or if you can mail it in, as each county has a different procedure. You will need a copy of your deed, a Florida driver’s license, a Florida automobile registration (if applicable), your voter registration card and/or a filed Declaration of Domicile, and your social security number in order to complete the form. If you do not drive, you must get a Highway Patrol identification card issued at the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles office (DHSMV). For jointly owned property, both parties must furnish the proof.Register to Vote: After moving to Florida, register to vote as a resident of Florida. Contact the County Supervisor of Elections for residency requirements for voting and then register. Contact the county Board of Registrars of your former state of residence to notify the Board of your change of residence and instruct the Board to remove your name from your former county’s voting roll.Actions to indicate intent to establish residency:Florida driver’s license: Obtain a Florida driver’s license and plates for your automobile. You must visit a Florida DHSMV site in person to obtain an initial Florida driver’s license. Florida law requires identification, proof of date of birth (i.e. certified US birth certificate, valid US passport, Certificate of Naturalization), proof of residential address (i.e. deed, Florida voter registration card, Florida vehicle registration) and proof of social security number (i.e. social security card, W-2, pay stub) from all residents before issuing a driver’s license or identification card. If you’ve recently changed your name (i.e. marriage), be sure you’ve updated your records with the Social Security Administration before applying for a Florida license. Contact the local Florida DHSMV for driver’s license requirements (Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles).Income tax returns: File future Federal income tax returns using your Florida address. (IRS Service Center in Austin, TX if no payment due. IRS Service Center in Charlotte, NC if payment due.) If you have income sourced in a state outside of Florida (i.e. your former state of residence), file a nonresident income tax return in the state of the sourced income if that state has an individual income tax.Wills and estate planning: If you do not have a will or you have a will executed in your former state of residence, contact an attorney to draw a will declaring Florida as your state of legal residence. Execute your estate planning documents in Florida.Tax agency: Notify taxing officials of your change of residence by either calling the state’s Department of Revenue or, if your state of former residence has a change of address form, filing the change of address form. Most states’ part-year resident returns provide a place on the return to indicate your period of residency ending within the tax year.Physical presence: Be physically present in Florida for more than half of the year. Own or lease, and occupy, a dwelling in Florida.Stocks and ownership interests: If you own corporate stocks or own a Partnership/LLC interest outside of a broker account, notify the entities of your change of residence. This will not only indicate your intention to establish Florida residency, it will ensure you receive your Forms 1099 and Schedules K-1 to assist you in preparing your income tax returns. Transfer financial (i.e. securities, bank) accounts from your state of former residence to Florida. Change your mailing address to Florida for any out-of-state accounts (i.e. brokerage accounts, bank accounts) you maintain.Safe deposit box: Rent a safe deposit box in Florida to hold all your valuables.Contracts and other documents: In all future contracts and other documents containing reference to your state of residency, cite Florida as your state of residency.Club memberships: Withdraw membership in any club outside of Florida if a requirement of membership includes residency within the state of the club’s location. Change an out-of-state club membership to a “nonresident” membership, when possible.Religious affiliations: Transfer your religious affiliations to Florida.Communications: Declare Florida your state of residence in all oral and written communications concerning your residence or domicile.Hotel registrations: Register at hotels as a resident of Florida.Business: Transact business in Florida.Social Security: Notify the Social Security Administration of your change of address.Passports: Use your Florida address for your passport.Credit cards: Use your Florida address for your charge accounts.Insurance: Register your Florida address with your insurance company and Medicare.Checks: Have all income, pension, dividend/interest checks and other payments mailed to your Florida address.

Nothing is required before the move. You simply pack and go. You will need a new place to live, of course, so you will have to either rent or purchase a home in the new location, but as long as your old checking account is still active, that should pose no problems. You may want to open a new bank account in your new state, but since many banks are national or regional, this may not be necessary. If your old bank isn’t available in your new state, you will eventually have to open an account with a bank in your new state.Then, you’ll need to go to the DMV in your new state and reregister your vehicles, and get a driver’s license in your new state. Every state has its own regulations, so what this will entail varies depending on where you are going.You will of course have to notify every company with which you do business or correspondent with which you communicate of your new mailing address. You may want to fill out a Postal Change of Address kit, available at every U.S. Postal office. The Postal Service will then take care of forwarding all of your mail for one year. As you get mail forwarded, you can then contact each correspondent to change your address. This is not done automatically. The USPS only takes care of sending the mail on to you, not notifying the sender to change the address. That remains your responsibility.If you have kids, you’ll need to register them in school. Every school district has its own requirements, but at a minimum, you’ll need to have proof of age, residence, immunization status, and previous school so they can get the records transferred.You’ll have to re-register to vote. (This is true even if you just move to the next block.) You can pick up a voter registration form in most public buildings (city hall, county court, libraries, state representative’s office, etc.) and mail it in.Maybe you’ll want to register for a new library card, or a new gym membership. I’ll leave you to figure that out.

If you live in a state with party registration, such as Florida, your voter registration card has your party listed on it, along with your precinct, the location where you would vote in person on Election Day (unless you vote by mail or at an early voting center) and your district numbers for Congress, state legislature, county or city, etc.In most of these states, known as closed primary states, you can only vote in the primary (and primary runoff) of the party in which you are registered at the time, which is the state’s primary reason (pun!) for having your party on your registration record. In the general election you can vote for any candidate in any party. Usually, party activist organizations will require you to be registered in that party, and sign a limited loyalty oath to the party, in order to be appointed to, or run for, official status as a precinct chair or higher, or to vote at party meetings (but not to hang out, volunteer with a campaign, help register voters, etc.).Note that the word “independent,” commonly used to mean non-partisan, is also the name of a minor party, so the registration form will most likely use the abbreviation IND to mean you are registering in the Independent Party; if you don’t want to belong to any party, you will probably choose NPA, for “No Party Affiliation” (that is Florida’s abbreviation, other states may differ).If you live in an open primary state, such as Georgia, there is no party affiliation on your voter registration (or anyone else’s, even your Governor, Senators, or any other elected officials). The parties keep their own internal membership records as private organizations for activists and candidates for elected office. When you go to vote in a primary election, or request a mail-in ballot, you choose any party ballot, or a non-partisan ballot, which only contains the offices for which candidates run without party labels (and sometimes judge retentions and questions on the ballot). If there is a primary runoff between the top two candidates for one or more offices, you automatically get the ballot for the same party. The next primary cycle you get to choose again.Obviously, this makes partisan canvassing, by phone or in person, more difficult in open primary states. Parties and campaigns in every state can get public record voter registration lists, with either the voter’s current party registration in closed primary states, or the voter’s last few choices of primary ballot in open primary states (if the voter did vote in a primary). The actual votes of each voter are, of course, secret. So, for example, the election office will know whether you voted in the 2016 Democratic primary, but not whether you voted for Clinton, Sanders, or another candidate, or skipped the Presidential race and only voted for Senate candidates, and not whether you voted for Clinton or Trump, or anyone, in the general election in November.If you don’t have a voter registration card with your current residence address, you aren’t even registered to vote and don’t belong to any party yet. You can find out your status by calling your state or local (county or parish) elections office, or going online or in person. In most states the deadline for registering if you aren’t registered, or for changing residence address, other contact information, or party (in closed primary states) is about a month (may be exactly 29, 30, or some other number of days) before a non runoff election. If you move after the deadline, you can bring proof of your new residence to your new precinct or to the election office (depending on state law).Once you are registered, you remain registered unless you fail to vote in two or three (varying by state) election cycles. However, watch the news, because some states have been known to run voter purges close to an election in order to stop people with certain demographics from voting. Also, the early voting days and locations, and precinct polling place locations, sometimes change just before an election. And the specific kinds of ID needed to vote in person also keep changing in some states.My knowledge comes from decades of personal experience as a voter and volunteer party activist in two states (Florida and Georgia, one open and one closed primary state), and from following election related news during and between elections. Register, study candidates and issues, volunteer to help the ones you like, and vote every chance you get!