✦Moving · 12 recordsMove abroad

An international move has a small number of blocking items with long lead times, and a large number of small ones that only matter once you have arrived. This puts the blockers first and does not pretend they run in parallel.

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Goal

Landed, legal and set up Month 6

The blockers first. Everything else depends on them.

The blocking paperwork Month 4

Long lead times, and nothing else can happen without them.

  • Check the actual processing time for my visa routeDo firstDay 5
  • Gather documents, translations and any police checkDo firstWeek 6
  • Submit the applicationDo firstMonth 3

Unwind things here Month 6

The half nobody plans: what happens to the life being left.

  • Decide about the tenancy or the propertyMonth 2
  • Sort accounts, tax residency, pensions and postMonth 4
  • Book the flight once the visa is grantedMonth 6

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  • An hour on the moveweekly
  • Check for any application updateweekly
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Blockers first, and they do not run in parallel

Visas and anything needing a government document — apostilles, translations, police checks — have long lead times, and everything including the flight is contingent on them.\n\nThe leaving half is the one people forget. Accounts, tax residency, pensions and post have no prompt and no deadline until they are a problem from another country.

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Move abroad, answered.

Visas and anything requiring documents from a government — apostilles, certified translations, police checks. They are dated first here because everything else, including a flight, is contingent on them.
The things they are leaving rather than arriving at: closing or keeping accounts, tax residency, pensions, and post redirection. Those sit in their own project because they have no deadline and no obvious prompt.
Six months is the shape of this plan. That is comfortable for most visa routes and tight for a few, so the first task is checking the actual processing time for yours rather than assuming this timeline fits.
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