The Journey
Your route through your first months in the U.S.
Moving here is a sequence, not a pile of tasks. Five stages take you from packing to settled, and each stage lists its guides in the order most people need them. Start where you are.
Where are you right now?
Before You Leave
Documents, money access, phone backups, and your first nights booked — all easier to handle from home.
3 guides
Arrival Day
Get through the airport, into safe transportation, connected to data, and to your first address.
4 guides
First Week
Make daily life workable: phone plan, transit, groceries, a bank account, and your paperwork started.
7 guides
First Month
Build the systems you will live with: housing, utilities, credit, and health insurance.
28 guides
Settling In
Longer-term decisions: credit cards, furnishing your place, sending money, and avoiding scams.
14 guides
Not sure where you are? If you haven't flown yet, start at the beginning — the first stage takes care of everything that is easier to fix from home.
Start at the beginning