Change of address on a French carte grise

What a change of address is

It is the SIV declaration of the new residence of the keeper already shown in field C.1. The vehicle stays the same, the keeper stays the same: only the mailing and checkpoint address changes.

Everyday language also says domicile update, address sticker, or “change the address on the carte grise”. For France Titres, the precise term is a change of address of the registration-certificate holder.

Filing is online. Office Carte Grise instructs the file, chases a blurry scan, then teletransmits. The title or the sticker then leaves by tracked post.

Carte grise, registration certificate and the address shown

Carte grise is the everyday name. The official name is certificat d'immatriculation (CI). The address is there for roadside checks, delivery of the mail item, and consistency with the insurer.

The formula number identifies the copy. It does not change for a simple SIV sticker. It does change when a new title is printed: fourth change, or rollover from an old FNI document to SIV.

Keep the sticker on the title, or the new certificate. An obsolete domicile later blocks a duplicate, a transfer or a change of keeper.

What a change of address is not

It is not a change of keeper, not a duplicate, not a transfer declaration, not a first import registration. A mis-aimed file is the first reason for rejection.

One-month deadline and article R.322-7

Article R.322-7 of the Highway Code gives the keeper one month from the date of the move to declare the new address. The month is calendar days.

Filing within the deadline is enough: instruction and delivery of the mail item may run past the month. Proof of address less than six months old is still required, even if you file on day thirty.

Start at step 2 of the procedure as soon as the proof of address is legible.

Fourth-class fine

After one month, driving with an obsolete domicile on the title is a fourth-class offence. The fixed penalty is in practice €135 (€90 reduced, €375 increased, €750 maximum).

A roadside check does not “see” your lease: it reads the certificate. Up-to-date insurance does not cancel the address offence.

Regularising afterwards does not refund a fine already notified. It does stop the next SIV procedure from stalling.

SIV or FNI: two procedures

The outcome depends on the plate format, not the département. SIV (AA-123-AA, often written AB-123-CD) is not FNI (123 AB 01, the old département millésime).

SIV adhesive sticker

For a title already in SIV, the first three address changes produce a sticker. It is affixed on the certificate, in the box around the previous address.

The sticker is an official document. A title without it, once SIV has already recorded the new domicile, is a problem at a check.

Do not cover the formula number or the technical fields. If the sticker is damaged before you affix it, say so: a duplicate is not the immediate reflex.

Fourth change of address

After three stickers, SIV does not print a fourth. A full certificate leaves, with the updated domicile and a new formula number.

SIV plates stay the same. Delivery time then matches a classic carte grise, not a sticker-only mailing.

Old FNI format and new plates

An FNI title does not take a sticker. The address change rolls the vehicle into SIV: new number, new certificate, plates to be stamped in AA-123-AA format.

Tell the insurer the new number before driving on SIV plates. Keep the old title for five years, then destroy it.

This is still not a change of keeper: the name in C.1 does not move. Regional tax Y.1 is still not recalculated.

Typical file documents

The core is short: current certificate, the keeper’s valid photo ID, proof of address less than six months old, Cerfa 13757 mandate, Cerfa 13750 application.

Proof of address must bear the name of the person whose address will appear on the title. With a co-holder, that is not always the first name listed if you agree otherwise.

Sharp scans, both sides, avoid a round trip. A blurry PDF is the second reason for rejection, after a file aimed at the wrong procedure.

Proof of address less than six months old

Energy bill, tax notice, rent receipt, home-insurance attestation, land-tax statement: the administration accepts recent nominative papers.

An envelope, a loyalty card or a delivery SMS is not enough. The printed date must be less than six months old on the filing day.

A change of PO box or of a “care of” line still needs proof in the keeper’s name, or the hosted trio described below.

Hosted person: attestation and host papers

If you have no proof in your own name, attach a hosting attestation, the host’s ID and the host’s own proof of address less than six months old.

The attestation dates and locates the stay. A handwritten sentence without the host’s identity does not pass.

The host is not recorded as keeper. They only certify that you live there.

Co-holder and the address printed on the title

The certificate may show a co-holder. Only one address appears. It is the person designated for delivery.

Attach the co-holder’s ID. Proof of address is that of the person whose address will be printed, not necessarily both households.

A disagreement between co-holders about the domicile is settled before filing. SIV does not referee a family dispute.

Legal person, registered office and establishment

For a company, the address shown is in practice the registered office or the declared establishment, backed by a recent Kbis extract.

A registered-office move is not a change of keeper. If the company name changes, use other procedures: that is no longer a simple domicile.

A secondary establishment is declared with the legal person’s papers, not with an employee’s rent receipt.

Leasing, LOA and LLD: lessor mandate

In hire-purchase or long-term rental, the SIV keeper is often the finance company. The hirer cannot file a change of address as if they were C.1.

You need a lessor mandate authorising the procedure. Without that paper, the file is rejected. Use other procedures or contact rather than improvising a private-individual flow.

We do not draft a lessor mandate in the finance company’s place. We instruct when the mandate is legible.

Cerfa 13757 mandate and Cerfa 13750 application

Cerfa 13757 mandates the authorised professional. Cerfa 13750 is the certificate application. Both are prepared before upload, or via the document generator.

Sign as keeper (or as representative of the legal person). A mandate in the name of an unauthorised third party has no effect in SIV.

Do not substitute Cerfa 15776 (transfer): it is for a sale, not for the domicile.

ANTS, France Titres, Simplimmat or an authorised provider

Three doors. The site immatriculation.ants.gouv.fr (France Titres, formerly ANTS) requires FranceConnect. Simplimmat, on a smartphone, covers mainly titles already in SIV. An authorised professional teletransmits without an end-user account.

Office Carte Grise is authorised by the Ministry of the Interior. The accompaniment fee (€30 incl. VAT) applies if you use us. No Y.1 tax is due for this procedure.

No authorised provider “is” the ANTS. The title leaves the same SIV. What changes is who chases a blurry paper before a silent rejection.

Price: €30 incl. VAT with no Y.1 tax

A change of address does not recalculate the regional fiscal-horsepower tax. No Y.1, no malus, no mutation registration stamp.

You pay the €30 incl. VAT fee. The amount is shown before payment. This is not a WW package, nor an import package.

A later change of keeper will use the new keeper’s département. That is not this page.

Timescales after the order and tracked mail

After legible papers and teletransmission, the sticker or title usually leaves within four to seven business days, by secure post.

The fourth change and the FNI rollover take the timescale of a certificate print, not of a sticker-only mailing.

An incomplete file does not “run”: the legal month keeps running until SIV has recorded the application.

Insurance and driving licence

The registration certificate is only one of the documents to update. The insurer must know the new domicile — and the new number if FNI rolls into SIV.

The licence and ANTS identity services sit on other portals. This page does not update them.

A green card at the new address is not the same as an up-to-date SIV.

Several vehicles with the same keeper

Each certificate is a file. Two cars, two orders; two proofs of address may serve, but two teletransmissions.

Sticker rank (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) belongs to each title, not to the household.

A van in the company’s name and a saloon in the director’s name do not share the same C.1.

Temporary move, second home, PO box

SIV expects the domicile where you can be reached and checked, not a convenience address.

A second home may appear if that is truly the address you put on the title, with proof in your name.

A PO box alone, without a nominative paper, is not enough. A “care of” line without a hosting attestation is not enough either.

Moving abroad or returning to France

Leaving France with a French title is not this flow. Importing a vehicle that is still foreign is the foreign-vehicle file (quitus, COC, WW), not a sticker.

Coming back to settle in France with a title that is already French: then a change of address is relevant again, with French proof of address less than six months old.

A temporary WW does not “carry” a domicile like a definitive CI. Do not order a sticker on a WW.

How this interacts with a duplicate

If the title is lost, stolen or unreadable, the duplicate is the procedure. An obsolete address often lengthens that duplicate: a longer ANTS teletransmission.

When the title is still readable, regularise the domicile here first, then chain the duplicate if the document later disappears.

This page is not the duplicate encyclopedia. Loss / theft / damage detail stays on its landing.

How this interacts with a transfer and a change of keeper

Selling the vehicle: transfer declaration on the seller side, then change of keeper on the buyer side. The buyer’s address is set in the mutation, not here.

Keeping the vehicle and moving house: this page. Swapping the two files creates a rejection or an unexpected Y.1 tax.

An FNI title that is sold is handled as a mutation, with SIV rollover on the buyer side. That is no longer the seller’s change of address.

Roadworthiness test: what changes and what does not

A change of address does not require a fresh contrôle technique. The test follows the vehicle, not the sticker.

If the title is missing and the test has expired, the FIV lets you present the vehicle — not this procedure.

A test issued at an old test-centre address remains valid: that is not the keeper’s domicile.

Frequent mistakes

Filing a change of keeper “to save time”: you pay Y.1 for nothing, or the file is rejected.

Forgetting the lessor mandate on a LOA. Affixing the sticker over the formula number. Sending proof older than six months. Expecting an FNI title to receive a sticker.

Waiting for a duplicate while the title is still there, only at the wrong address. The two topics overlap; they do not replace each other.

What we do not do on this page

We are not the ANTS. We do not recalculate Y.1. We do not invent a leasing flow without a lessor mandate. We do not turn a WW import into a sticker.

We do not correct a company name, a divorce or an estate here: other procedures, or contact.

We do not sell plates. After an FNI rollover, stamping is done by a plate professional, then the insurer is told.

How to order the change of address

Create the account, pay the €30 incl. VAT fee, then deposit the scans. Upload comes after payment, at step 2 of the procedure.

A file that is legible the same day leaves faster than a “we’ll see on Sunday” file. The legal month does not pause while the photos sit in the phone.

The summary shows the amount before payment. No hidden regional tax.

After the sticker or the title arrives

Affix the sticker without covering the formula or the technical fields. File the new certificate if this is a 4th change or an FNI rollover.

If FNI became SIV, have the plates stamped and tell the insurer the new number before the next trip.

Keep the old document for five years if it was replaced, then destroy it. It no longer authorises driving.

Documents recap table

Private-individual papers, then variants. Cerfa forms download from the document list on this page.

Useful links and the rest of the journey

The dated 2026 article tells the year’s framework. The order file, the tables and the on-page FAQ live here.

For a sale, a lost title, an import or a collector vehicle, follow the cocoon links at the bottom of the page rather than forcing this procedure.

If you are hosted by someone else

• Hosting attestation
• The host's valid photo ID
• The host's proof of address less than 6 months old

If there is a co-holder

• The co-holder's photo ID

If the keeper is a company

• Kbis extract

If the vehicle is on lease

• Lessor mandate authorising the change of address