Adjusting incorrect personal data

Your personal data is recorded in the Basic Register of Persons (BRP). If you notice an error in your personal data, you can ask the municipality to correct it. This is also known as a “correction request.”

You can check your information at MijnOverheid.

In addition to your first names, last name, gender, and citizen service number (BSN), the BRP information about your:

• parents
• nationality
• marriage or registered partnership
• death
• registration in the BRP
• residence (address)
• children
• residence permit (if you are from another country)
• relationship of authority and receivership
• travel document (passport and/or identity card)
• suffrage

• You ask the municipality to amend your data. This is called a correction request.
• Show that your information is incorrect. For example, in a letter from the municipality that contains incorrect information about you. Or by taking a screenshot of your information on MijnOverheid .
• Clearly state what you want to change and why you want it.

Requesting correction request

• The municipality will make a decision on your application within 4 weeks.
• You will be notified by mail or e-mail.

There is a Reporting Point for Errors in Government Records (MFO).

An error in data must be corrected with the organization concerned. If the reporter does not know where to turn or the organization itself is unable to solve the problem: report this to the MFO.