6 - 8 Weeks before moving:  

• Keep receipts on your new household items, as these can be tax deductible.
• If moving with children begin exploring school options and requirements at your new home.
• Check all passports are valid and arrange all consular procedures.

 5 Weeks before moving: 

• Check on vaccination requirements and arrange for if necessary. Sometimes vaccines must be done four weeks before departure.
• Arrange for mail to be redirected.
• Can your drivers license be used at your new residence? If not, make arrangements.

4 Weeks before moving: 

• Obtain your family's medical and dental records and notify the medical authorities that you are leaving the country.
• Arrange transfer of school records.
• Begin consuming or disposing of frozen foods as these cannot be shipped.
• Check home owners’ insurance policy to see if moving is covered. -Determine value of inventory for insurance purposes. -
• Notify your children's school and arrange for school records to be forwarded to the new school.
• Obtain all necessary visas, work permits and residency permits.
• Make arrangements to open bank and credit card accounts at destination and request bank and credit references for use overseas.
• Transfer or cancel any publications, organizations, clubs and associations you are a member of.    

3 Weeks before moving: 

• Decide which items are to be moved or donated to charity.
• Consume all flammables and aerosols before you move as these cannot be shipped.
• Notify magazines to which you subscribe about your new address. -Be certain the new residence is ready.
     

2 Weeks before moving: 

• Advise everyone of your change of address (post office, insurance companies, credit card companies, DHSS, bank, relatives, friends etc).
• Discontinue utilities and delivery service on the specified date i.e. Milk Man, papers etc.
• Cancel all membership agreements i.e. sports club, video library etc.
• Draw up a floor plan of your new home and indicate placement of furnishings.

1 Week before moving: 

• Gather important medicines and papers i.e. passports, visas and permits etc, for personal transport to new residence.
• Clean outdoor items (e.g. garden tools, out door furniture).
• Make arrangements with your neighbours to allow enough parking for our vehicles on the day of the move.
• Ensure that you have labelled everything clearly, i.e. sea/air/do not pack/storage etc., for our packers.
• Start packing your own suitcases for personal transport.  
• Return any borrowed items i.e. books, videos, DVDs etc.

2 Days before Moving: 

• Make sure you have allocated a parking space for our vehicle on moving day.
• Defrost your freezer, disconnect washing machine etc and drain all hoses.
• Keep aside any documentation you will require for your travel, so they are not accidentally packed.
• Prepare your luggage for your trip to your new residence.
  

Moving Day: 

• Let our packers know what items you will require immediately at your new residence, so they are loaded last into the container.
• Keep aside any documentation you will require for your travel i.e. passports, visas, work permits etc, so they are not accidentally packed.
• Leave new contact details to the new occupants of your home.  
• Remember to keep aside your own suitcases for personal transport.
• It is also advisable you personally take with you all original versions of essential documents, i.e. birth certificates, educational certificates and awards etc.
• Before the Smooth Movers truck departs have one last look around to see that nothings been left behind.