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Getting or renewing a driving licence from your local commune in Brussels can take as little time as a week, but also as long as three months, depending on the commune in which you live, an invest
A bill tabled by Ecolo-Groen would allow Belgians to change their last name at will once in their lives, choosing between their father’s or mother’s surname, or a combination of the two.
The Brussels municipality of Etterbeek is doing away with a policy that offers a discount on name-change fees if someone has a "foreign-sounding" birth name.
Belgium has issued birth certificates for the first time for children who were born to Belgian fathers and Congolese mothers during the country's brutal occupation of the Congo in the 1940s and 19
Myria, the federal body in charge of migration, has found shortcomings in the formalities for European Union citizens registering in Belgian municipalities according to the results of a new study.
The governor of the province of Flemish Brabant, Jan Spooren, has cancelled the municipal council of Kraainem’s project to create a linguistic register.
A woman in Anderlecht had the shock of her life when she received a letter from the commune saying she had been declared dead.
Few countries are more complicated to explain than Belgium, with its many governments, parliaments, languages, regions and identities.