Documents required for Evidence of Florida Residency Florida Driver license (if known to be held in another state previously, must have relinquished) OR a State of Florida identification card (if evidence of no ties to another state) Florida voter registration. Florida vehicle registration.
Acceptable Proofs of Florida Residency: Current Florida voter registration information card. Declaration of domicile (may be obtained from county clerk's office) Florida homestead exemption. NOTE: Landlord certification is no longer accepted as an alternate proof of residency.
To become a Florida resident, there are several steps to establish that you are a bona fide resident of the State of Florida: File a Florida declaration of domicile. Obtain a Florida driver's license. Register your vehicles in Florida. Register to vote in Florida. Open a bank account in Florida.
To establish Florida residency, you typically need to physically reside in Florida for at least 183 days per year, maintain a primary residence in the state, register to vote in Florida and file a "Declaration of Domicile" document to formally declare your intent to make Florida your permanent home.
You may download a domicile form or obtain one at any Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller location. Bring or mail the form to a Clerk's office location to be recorded. You must bring some form of legal identification if you need your document notarized.
Under the rule, the taxing states require that a person looking to declare residency in Florida must reside in Florida for at least 183 days (in other words, one day more than six months).
Bona Fide Domicile - A person's predominant and principal state of residence and their place of abode that they recognize and intend to maintain as their permanent home. Claimant - The person who is providing evidence of the establishment of permanent legal residence in Florida.
Residency is physically living somewhere. Domicile is physically living somewhere (or lived somewhere) and intent to remain (or intent to return if you're military). You CANNOT have a domicile for a state you have never lived in. You must have physically resided in a certain state to gain its benefits and protections.
1000.21(6). (d) “Legal resident” or “resident” means a person who has maintained his or her residence in this state for the preceding year, has purchased a home which is occupied by him or her as his or her residence, or has established a domicile in this state pursuant to s. 222.17.