Tag: relocation
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- Best places to live in Vietnam — the expat ranking by lifestyle
Đà Nẵng, HCMC (Thảo Điền), Hanoi (Tây Hồ), Hội An — ranked by lifestyle category. Where to live if you're a family, a nomad, a retiree, or a business expat.
best · Updated 2026-07-06 - Importing household goods to Vietnam: checklist
A practical checklist for shipping personal effects to Vietnam — customs allowances, restricted items, realistic timelines, and how the work permit or TRC affects duty exemption.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - Importing a vehicle to Vietnam: cost and process
What it typically costs and involves to import a car or motorbike to Vietnam as a foreign resident, and why most expats buy locally instead.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - Document apostille and legalisation for Vietnam
Vietnam isn't a Hague Apostille signatory. Here's what that means for your birth, marriage, degree and criminal-record documents — and how to get them legalised by source country.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - Finding a good immigration agent in Vietnam
When to use a Vietnamese immigration agent, what they should cost, the four questions that filter the serious from the rest, and the agent-related red flags.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - Healthcare setup in your first week in Vietnam
Five healthcare tasks to complete in your first seven days in Vietnam — insurance activation, GP registration, hospital network choice, prescription transfer, and the local emergency card.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - Importing a car to Vietnam: the honest reality
Bringing a car to Vietnam is almost always more expensive than buying one locally. Here's the actual cost stack, when it's worth doing, and the diplomatic / specialist exemptions.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - Registering Vietnamese tax residency as a new arrival
The day-counting that triggers Vietnamese tax residency, what to set up in your first 90 days to keep records clean, and what to ask a Vietnamese tax adviser about your home country.
relocation · Updated 2026-06-30 - International schools in Vietnam by city
A city-by-city comparison of international schools in HCMC, Hanoi, Da Nang, and Hoi An, covering curricula, tuition ranges, and how to shortlist.
living in vietnam · Updated 2026-06-30 - Bringing Pets to Vietnam
Cats and dogs can come — with current rabies vaccination, microchip, rabies titer test, and a health certificate. No quarantine for most countries. Plan 3–6 months ahead.
living in vietnam · Updated 2026-06-30 - Arrival week in Vietnam: the seven-day checklist
Day-by-day tasks for your first week in Vietnam — what to do landing day, what to do day 2, what to leave for later. The honest sequencing that prevents arrival burnout.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - Plan your Vietnam exit before you arrive
Sketching how you'd leave Vietnam — pets, belongings, tax close-out, motorbike sale, lease exit — before you arrive sounds morbid but makes the rest of the move calmer.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - First 90 days in Vietnam: the relocation completion checklist
What to complete in your first three months — TRC, bank account, motorbike, long-term lease, driving licence, registered tax code. The sequencing that makes none of it a fire.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - Moving to Vietnam: the 12-month-to-arrival checklist
A staged checklist from 12 months out through your first 90 days in Vietnam. Documents, visa route, housing, banking, schools, pets, shipping, tax, exit plan.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - Pet relocation to Vietnam: the 12-month timeline
Bringing a dog or cat to Vietnam takes longer than most people realise — the rabies titer alone needs four months. Here's the month-by-month timeline from one year out.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - School enrolment in Vietnam: the 6–12 month waitlist timeline
The international school waitlist clock starts a year before you move. Here's the pre-arrival enrolment timeline for HCMC, Hanoi and Đà Nẵng, plus the documents you need ready in month one.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - International shipping to Vietnam: getting and comparing three quotes
How to source three real quotes from international movers, what to compare beyond the headline price, and the contract clauses that catch first-time movers out.
relocation · Updated 2026-05-21 - Vietnam relocation checklist (printable)
A printable master relocation checklist — 12 months out through arrival week. Visa, shipping, schools, pets, banking, healthcare, lease, motorbike.
checklists · Updated 2026-05-21 - Importing Personal Belongings to Vietnam
Shipping a household to Vietnam — what's allowed, what's banned, customs duty thresholds, the agencies that handle the paperwork, and what's cheaper to buy locally.
living in vietnam · Updated 2026-05-21 - Repatriation and Leaving Vietnam
Closing your TRC, final tax filing, terminating contracts, what to ship home, what to sell locally, deregistering your motorbike — the leaving-Vietnam checklist.
living in vietnam · Updated 2026-05-21