Every person who has a residence (main or secondary residence) registered with the police in the institution, receives an individual form to fill out.

At the same time, the home address for the permanent residence is entered in question 7a "address of the main residence".

If the person lives in the institution for professional, job training or education reasons then, as a rule, the address of the institution is considered a secondary residence and should be entered under question 7b. The address of the main residence - as a rule, the residence of the family to whose household the person belongs - should be stated under question 7a.

If the person does not have an additional residence, then the institution is considered the permanent residence (main residence) and its address is stated in question 7a. Question 7b remains unanswered.

Persons who have an East Germany identification card [should] extract the address of the main residence from the last entry made on pages 6 through 8, [and] the address of the secondary residence from the last entry made on pages 9 through 12.