Preparing your permanent return to Algeria: the last 12 months timeline

A permanent return cannot be improvised: each step triggers another, and some cannot be done out of order. Here is a reference timeline, to adapt to your situation.

12 to 9 months before

• Define the project: target date, household composition, city of settlement.
• Audit your situation: housing in Algeria, pension rights, bank accounts, vehicle, any company.
• Update civil status: birth certificates, family record book, transcription of events that took place abroad.

9 to 6 months before

• Secure housing: works and utilities, or finding a property and checking its legal situation.
• Prepare the children's schooling: recognition of qualifications, enrolment, school calendar.
• Start the long files: pension, supplementary insurance, health cover on return.

6 to 3 months before

• Organise the removal: inventory, choice of the regime applicable to personal belongings and the vehicle, quotes.
• Prepare the bank side: accounts to keep, accounts to close, transfers to plan in compliance with exchange regulations.
• Inform your employer, landlord, insurers and administrations.

Last month and arrival

• Close contracts and subscriptions, complete departure formalities.
• After arrival: administrative settling-in, opening of rights, consular procedures, including consular deregistration, to be timed correctly.

The most frequent mistakes

• Starting too late and chaining emergencies.
• Deregistering from the consulate before finishing the procedures that depend on it.
• Shipping the removal without checking the applicable rules.
• Neglecting health cover for the first months.

Timelines are indicative and depend on each case. Our Permanent Return pack turns this timeline into a personal action plan, with a single contact and follow-up in your client area.