Finalise your move from the UK
Run two lanes together: the final official Aliyah instructions for your file and a complete UK departure plan covering money, family, health, property and logistics.
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Finalise your move from the UK
The UK-to-Israel lens
Leaving Britain is a separate workstream
Tell the relevant UK bodies about your move, including HMRC and any office handling benefits, pensions or student loans.
Close, retain or change each UK account deliberately and protect access to UK authentication and post.
Carry essential originals, medication and arrival details in hand luggage; do not put the only copy in shipping.
Lane A
Your official Aliyah process
- Follow the final approval and pre-travel instructions issued for your file.
- Complete visa or status documentation where it applies to your case.
- Coordinate arrival notifications and any eligible programme arrangements.
- Flight arrangements or assistance can depend on your status and current programme. Follow the instructions issued for your case.
Lane B
Your UK departure
Doing this with children?
Make space for goodbyes, packing and Travel Day.
Use the goodbye plan, suitcase activity and Travel Day pages alongside the adult departure checklist. Excitement and sadness can both be true.
The short version
Three things to keep in view
Tax residence is determined by facts and law—not by a one-off declaration.
Decide which UK accounts, property, pensions and legal arrangements will continue after the move.
Carry essential documents, medication and arrival information rather than shipping them.
Ninety days or more before departure
- Build a departure register covering HMRC, National Insurance, pensions, employer or business, housing and insurance.
- Request medical summaries, repeat-prescription information and children’s school or support records.
- Check passport, application and travel-document instructions for every traveller.
- Plan shipping, storage, pets and temporary accommodation with contingency time.
- Review wills, powers of attorney and who can act on UK matters after you leave.
Tax, work and retained UK interests
A move does not by itself settle UK tax residence or remove UK tax obligations. UK property income, employment, companies, investment activity and return visits can remain relevant.
- Confirm how to notify HM Revenue & Customs for your circumstances; Self Assessment users may follow a different route from P85 users.
- Record the departure date, work pattern, UK days, homes and ties needed for residence analysis.
- Tell an employer where duties will physically be performed and obtain cross-border payroll and tax advice where needed.
- If retaining UK property or a business interest, plan management, banking, insurance and tax reporting.
Obtain UK and Israeli tax advice before relying on a residence, payroll or double-tax position.
Home, accounts and services
- Give your council a forwarding address and settle Council Tax or tenancy questions.
- Close or transfer utilities, broadband, mobile contracts and subscriptions deliberately.
- Ask banks, card providers, lenders and insurers whether they support customers resident in Israel.
- Arrange secure mail handling and update only verified organisations.
- Keep a list of direct debits, standing orders, deposits and expected refunds.
Health, education and family records
- Ask your general practitioner and relevant clinicians for concise records needed for continuity of care.
- Carry an adequate lawful supply of medication, prescriptions and generic drug names after professional advice.
- Collect school reports, assessment plans, vaccination information and evidence of additional support.
- Arrange dentist, optician and specialist follow-up according to clinical advice.
- Do not assume continuing entitlement to NHS services after becoming ordinarily resident abroad.
Final week and hand luggage
- Passports, visas or approval documents and the arrival instructions for every traveller.
- Original civil-status and eligibility documents in a protected folder.
- Medication, prescriptions, clinical summary and essential equipment.
- Arrival address, emergency contacts, bank access and more than one payment method.
- Chargers, adapters, change of clothes and items children need for the journey.
- Encrypted digital copies stored separately from the originals.
Check live FCDO advice, airline rules and official arrival instructions immediately before travelling.
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