The last ninety days before a move abroad run on paperwork that moves at other people's speed: forms that wait on signatures, documents that wait on appointments, letters that wait on the mail. This moving abroad checklist is a free printable two-page set for that window. Page one is a 90-days-out table with 8 write-in task rows, each with a done circle and a notes column. Page two covers the landing side: a first-week box with 5 lines and a paperwork folder box with 3. It is a relocation checklist built for printing, not an app to log into. If you want the document records themselves, the expat document checklist printable tracks names, expiry dates, and copies; the 12-month moving abroad checklist starts the timeline earlier, and the cost checklist handles the money.
How to use this page: print both pages at 100% scale. On page one, one row per task: write what needs doing, circle Done when it is finished, and use the notes column for whatever the row waits on, like the office you mailed the form to or the date you expect an answer. Nothing on the sheet names the tasks, because the ones that matter depend on your route; write your own from whatever your research turns up. On page two, use the first-week lines for the handful of things arrival-day-you will not remember on its own, and the folder box to decide where the paper lives before it piles up. Requirements vary by country - check official government sources, and treat these pages as a place to organize what you find, not a source itself.
Nothing on the sheets is pre-filled: the 8 rows, the 5 lines, and the 3 lines are empty on purpose. The same two pages work for a work transfer, a study term, or a family move, because nothing on them assumes a country or a reason for the move.
One row per task. Write the task, circle Done when it is finished, and use Notes for whatever the row waits on: an office, an expected date, a person.
| Task (write it in) | Done | Notes (write it in) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. ____________ | ||
| 2. ____________ | ||
| 3. ____________ | ||
| 4. ____________ | ||
| 5. ____________ | ||
| 6. ____________ | ||
| 7. ____________ | ||
| 8. ____________ (the task only your route asks for) |
Eight rows is a cut, not a limit: when the table is full, the leftover tasks go on the back of the page, and the ones that made the cut are the ones with a date or a dependency attached.
Arrival week runs on a short list, and the paperwork folder needs a home before the papers do.
| 1. | ____________ (the thing tomorrow-morning-you needs first) |
| 2. | ____________ |
| 3. | ____________ |
| 4. | ____________ |
| 5. | ____________ |
| Where the folder lives | |
| What goes in it | |
| What is still missing |
Check your destination. What any task on this list involves (forms, offices, translations, or nothing at all) depends on the countries on your route, and those requirements change. The answer lives with the destination's official government sources, not on a printable. This sheet records what you find; it does not decide it.
These two pages are a checklist sheet: task lines, circles, and boxes. They hold no country requirements, no filing steps, and no visa or immigration information, and they are not legal, immigration, or tax advice.
The 90-day table keeps tasks straight, but it cannot tell you what your route asks for, and it does not try. The pack these sheets come from is built that way on purpose, and the pack's README opens with it:
“A printable relocation planner that runs on paper: count down the twelve months, track every document, log each application, budget the move, hunt the apartment, pack the boxes, and land with a checklist instead of a panic. Everything is write-in by design, so one pack works for any destination. No country-specific rules anywhere on purpose: requirements vary by country, and the official government source for your route is the thing to trust, not a printable.”
- Expat Relocation Planner README, first paragraph
The same README covers printing: the pack ships as two files, one for A4 paper and one for US Letter, prints at 100% scale, reads fine in grayscale, and fits a 1-inch binder, which the README argues matters when an official asks for a paper you filed three months ago.
Two pages cover ninety days and one week. The full Expat Relocation Planner covers the whole move at the same write-in depth: a 12-month countdown, a 30-row document tracker, a permit and application tracker, budget pages with currency columns, a 20-row housing hunt log, a 30-row shipping inventory, healthcare and banking setup, home-country cancellations, an arrival-day checklist, and a first-week spread with 7 day boxes. The free angles of the same pack: the document records checklist, the 12-month checklist, the cost checklist, and the documents organizer on screen.
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