Newcomer Kit First 30 days checklist
Your first 30 days: a week-by-week checklist
Four weeks of small steps. Tick them off as you go: ticks stay on this device, the page works offline, and you can print it or save it as a PDF.
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Week 1 (days 1 to 7): settle in Choose eSIM or a physical SIM and ask the provider which ID it accepts for your country. Phone data guide Check that calls, texts and data work, and note down your new number. Save the local emergency number in your phone and learn how to say your address in the local language. Emergency numbers Keep copies of your passport, residence papers, tenancy and work contract: one on your phone, one on paper in a different place. Meet people: pick one event near you this week and go; coming alone is fine. Meet & Mint shows events and people near you on one map. Meet & Mint · speak.comealone.app ES Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Official source read Yes. Operators must keep a register of prepaid buyers. You are identified with an identity document, and the operator records your name, surname, nationality and the number and type of the document. Ley 25/2007, disposición adicional única (BOE). The law does not list which documents count. Source : BOE-A-2007-18243 · Last checked 2026-10-20PT Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Partly verified Being changed. On 29 May 2026 the Government approved a bill (legislative authorisation) that would make identification of prepaid mobile users mandatory. We could not confirm that it has passed or when it applies. Carry an ID document anyway. Communiqué of the Council of Ministers, 29 May 2026 (portugal.gov.pt). Source : portugal.gov.pt · Last checked 2026-10-20FR Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Not verified Not confirmed. A 2025 anti-narcotics law (Loi n° 2025-532) was drafted with a clause requiring operators to check the identity of prepaid buyers with an official photo ID. We read the parliamentary report on that clause but not the promulgated text, so we cannot confirm the rule or its start date. Carry a passport or ID card. Assemblée nationale report no. 1044 on the bill (art. 12 bis, new art. L. 34-1-1 CPCE); Ministry of Justice circular of 28 July 2025 for the law's reference. Source : assemblee-nationale.fr · justice.gouv.fr · Last checked 2026-10-20DE Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Official source read Yes. The provider must check your identity before activation with an ID card, a passport, another valid official photo ID accepted in Germany, or a residence permit or equivalent document. The Bundesnetzagentur may approve other methods, such as remote identification, but they must still use one of these documents. § 172 (2) Telekommunikationsgesetz (gesetze-im-internet.de); Bundesnetzagentur page on prepaid identification procedures. Source : gesetze-im-internet.de · bundesnetzagentur.de · Last checked 2026-10-20IT Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Partly verified Yes. A Ministry of the Interior decree (Gazzetta Ufficiale, 6 Feb 2019) states that companies must identify buyers of prepaid mobile traffic before activation and record the data from an identity document, with its type, number and a copy. The decree also allows remote identification for existing customers who migrate or add a SIM. It cites art. 55(7) of D.Lgs. 259/2003; we did not re-check the current article numbering. Decreto 28 dicembre 2018, Ministero dell'Interno (GU n. 31, 6 Feb 2019), art. 2. Source : gazzettaufficiale.it · Last checked 2026-10-20NL Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Not verified Not confirmed. We found no ID duty for prepaid SIMs in the Telecommunicatiewet (consolidated text of 15 Aug 2026) and no regulator page that states one. That is absence of evidence, not confirmation. Ask the provider what it requires. Telecommunicatiewet on wetten.overheid.nl (searched for prepaid and identification terms). Source : wetten.overheid.nl · Last checked 2026-10-20IE Phone: ID rule to register a prepaid SIM Partly verified No registration law at the time of ComReg's April 2024 draft guidance, which says it is not currently minded to require prepaid SIM registration. It does expect operators to run their own identity checks, and for eSIMs it recommends the customer's name and address, a photo of an official ID and a selfie. We did not find the final guidance. ComReg, Know Your Customer (KYC) Guidance, draft information notice 24/24c, 3 Apr 2024. Source : comreg.ie · Last checked 2026-10-20ES Moving with a pet? The step-by-step checklist with official sources for this country is on this site. Pet travel steps DE Moving with a pet? The step-by-step checklist with official sources for this country is on this site. Pet travel steps FR Moving with a pet? The step-by-step checklist with official sources for this country is on this site. Pet travel steps IE Moving with a pet? The step-by-step checklist with official sources for this country is on this site. Pet travel steps NL Moving with a pet? The step-by-step checklist with official sources for this country is on this site. Pet travel steps PT Moving with a pet? The step-by-step checklist with official sources for this country is on this site. Pet travel steps Week 2 (days 8 to 14): paperwork and people Week 3 (days 15 to 21): routines Week 4 (days 22 to 30): review and plan ahead Set usage alerts or top-up reminders, and give your new number to your employer, school and doctor. Phone data guide Compare what you spent this month with what you planned, and adjust next month's budget. Back up your phone and scan any new documents into the same safe place as your other copies. Choose one regular activity (a class, a club, volunteering, a weekly event) and put it in your calendar for month two. Meet & Mint Write down what is still open and move it to a month-two list. ES Optional, and a good way to meet people: browse volunteering organisations in this country. Volunteering organisations DE Optional, and a good way to meet people: browse volunteering organisations in this country. Volunteering organisations IE Optional, and a good way to meet people: browse volunteering organisations in this country. Volunteering organisations NL Optional, and a good way to meet people: browse volunteering organisations in this country. Volunteering organisations PT Optional, and a good way to meet people: browse volunteering organisations in this country. Volunteering organisations
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