# Moving of a CHW **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Support\ **Tags:** move-contacts\ **Created:** [June 11, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/moving-of-a-chw/3662 "2024-06-11T12:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![jkuester](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/jkuester/32/806_2.png) [@jkuester](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/jkuester)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/moving-of-a-chw/3662/2 "2024-06-11T13:44:21Z")
As [previously noted](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/moving-of-places/3440/2), moving contacts is current a hot-topic for the CHT since the current functionality is not sufficient. > [@Anro](#): > > Is that the expected behavior? I think the short answer is, yes, this is expected behavior. [These docs](https://docs.communityhealthtoolkit.org/apps/guides/updates/moving-contacts/) cover the general process of moving contacts (particularly for an admin user moving contacts between offline users). Unfortunately, I am not sure we have any specific docs regarding moving a _user’s contact_. The process should be similar as what is documented for moving any other contact with this addition (as you noted) that the `facility_id` value for the doc in the `_users` db and the `user-settings` doc in the `medic` db will need to be set to the contact’s new place id. FWIW, I know that improving the process of moving users is a priority for [GitHub - medic/cht-user-management](https://github.com/medic/cht-user-management) and progress is being made, and more features are being added to cht-core to help support this… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/moving-of-a-chw/3662)._