EXPATRIATE ABROAD

Working and living abroad. A challenge, an adventure, an experience.

Deciding to live abroad needs a long and mature thought out.

Before leaving your home to build a new life somewhere else, you have different choices. You can opt for selling or renting if you are the owner. It is also possible to proceed to exchange; countries like United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland or Norway accept year's apartments' exchanges.

If you are the tenant, think about sending a registered letter in order to cancel your rental agreement with confirmation of receipt. But before getting over this step, you would need to follow various stages in order to lead this big adventure of expatriation.

Prepare your departure

Make inquiries

Knowing the country, which would welcome you, is for sure, the first step of the expatriation.

To begin, you could check on various forums and trip's blog, which usually bring lots of information.

You would also need to find out about cultural and geographic aspects, the socio economical and politic situation of the country in order to be prepared.

Concerning health and education, does the country have necessary infrastructure or not.

Before setting out, a total health check up for you and your family would be required.

Also settle your fiscal situation.

It is also required to inform your bank about your departure. This would involve you in opening a new account in the welcoming country and ending or not your actual one. You would have to make the same for the fiscal administration, because you would have to carry out your taxation and at the same time determine your situation concerning the taxation service of the welcoming country.

Administrative formalities and procedures to follow

For sure, this is the longest step of your preparation and the most important one.

Start to check if your passport is still valid, because on the opposite case, no visa would be delivered.

Same for your identity card, it would allow you carrying out all kind of administrative steps.

Getting a visa from the consulate is necessary if your nationality is different from the welcoming country. It would indicate on your passport the time and the purpose of your stay. It exists different types of visa, according to your assignment: working visa, business or working holiday visa.

The stay card come with the visa. It would allow you to stay and work in the country on purpose. It could be permanent or temporary. It could also be reformed according to your needs. The obtaining of this renewal would only depend on administration of the welcoming country.

For the country from the European Union, it is required to ask for a residency card for up to three months stay from the local abroad services or authorities. This card would help you to open a new bank account or buy a vehicle.

It is important to note that you would have to get from the town council the authorization for under age children to go out to countries out of the European Union.

If you have a driving license, think about activating it to international. This would help you to drive an official car of the company.

The last point and the not the least, would be getting the working card, which would be necessary for all those who would get a job in a foreigner country. The process is quite long (3 to 6 months) in order to acquire it, so better to begin it as soon as possible.

Check all the necessary documents for your trip

When everything is absolutely ready, you would have to check meticulously all the things you would need during your journey

Put together:
- Papers for the airport: passport, visa, residency permit, permission to go out of the country for under age people, insurance certificate, currency one.

- Necessary documents for work: working permit, employment contract, driving license, curriculum and diploma copies.

- Documents for the family: family record book, birth extract, act of marriage extract, children's report card, child's health record, international book of vaccination.

If you travel with our pet, find out how to let your pet travelling in the best conditions.

Usually, airlines are very strict concerning the transportation of domestic animals. In some of them it is not allowed.

Transportation is payable and be regulated. You should be able to show the vaccination book or in some cases the aptitude certificate of animal in service.

Be quite organized in order to have time to fill up the forms required for its transportation.

Customs formalities

If you reside in one of the State members of the European Union, you won't have any customs formalities to fulfill.

On the opposite case, you would have to provide in duplicate the inventory of all your belongings, you want to bring (furniture, vehicle.). This document needs to be exhaustive, estimated, dated and signed.

For example, it could be possible for you to be exempted of eligible taxation on belongings' import, if you keep your home in France.

In case of vehicle transportation, documents are required as the invoiced, ticket, insurance certification and if necessary the different authorizations required and delivered by the Minister or official organization according to through customs.

The taxation of goods through customs can be calculated from the proportion applied on values or on their qualities. In that case, appeal to a company specialist on international transport; they could be able to provide all the formalities for personal belongings and furniture export.

Due to the fact that it would be an international moving, we advise you to use a professional with acknowledged certifications.

All stages done, right now, "softly", get to your welcoming country and begin a new life.

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