How long does a registration card take?

There is no published service standard we are willing to quote you as a timing. What we can say is that the card is the thing everything else waits on, and that appointments are booked into a diary that fills. Arrange it before you land rather than after.

Can you open a bank account for me?

No, and nor can anyone else. The bank wants the person. What we can do is make sure the appointment succeeds first time, which means the right documents, a real address, and a card if the bank is asking for one.

We are arriving in stages. Does that cause problems?

It is a common and sensible pattern. The trap is that several registrations are per person and cannot be done by proxy, so the later arrivals repeat a fortnight of the first. Plan both waves at the same time.

Do we need private medical insurance?

That is a household calculation rather than a rule, and it is different from the UK one — you are pricing against charged primary-care appointments and off-island specialist care rather than waiting lists. Price it against how your household actually uses healthcare before cancelling anything you hold.

Is any of this different for a High Value Resident?

The arrival layer is much the same; the sequence in front of it is not. What changes is that the housing permission is already settled by the time you land, which removes the constraint that holds most arrivals up.

The first ninety days

Settling in

Settling in is the administrative layer that follows arrival: the cards, accounts, registrations and appointments that turn a house into a life. None of it is difficult. All of it depends on something else being done first, which is why it goes wrong.

What is included

Registration cards arranged, with the right documents assembled beforehand
Bank account opening, prepared so it succeeds at the first attempt
GP registration and an explanation of what Jersey healthcare actually costs
School applications and introductions, states and fee-paying
Driving licence exchange, and vehicle import including the GST position
Utilities, telecoms, parish registration and the practical accounts
Pet import routes and the paperwork that has to line up with the crossing

The order

Status and employer permission. Registration card. Accommodation you are permitted to occupy. Bank account. Then everything that needs an address.

Each of those is waiting on the one above it. Attempting them in parallel feels faster and reliably is not — the usual outcome is a fortnight of circling while paying for temporary accommodation.

What the first ninety days actually contains

Week one is the registration card and the documents that unlock everything downstream. Weeks two and three are the bank, the GP and the school conversations, all of which want an address and some of which want a card.

The car, the licence exchange, the utilities and the parish registration follow. Medical records transfer more slowly than anyone expects and is worth starting from the old country rather than the new one.

None of it is hard. All of it is booked into other people's diaries, and the diaries fill.

What we cannot do for you

We do not open accounts, sign documents or collect cards on your behalf. Banks and government offices want the person, and rightly.

What we do is remove the reason those appointments fail: the wrong documents, the missing address, the card that needed the tenancy that needed the status. We prepare, book, brief and come with you.

Arriving ahead of the household

A common and sensible pattern: one person lands first, sorts the card, the account and the tenancy, and the rest of the household follows at the end of a school term.

It works, and it has one trap. Several registrations are per person and cannot be done by proxy, so the second arrival repeats a fortnight of the first. Plan the second wave at the same time as the first rather than after it.

Fees

Fixed, and quoted once we know the size of the household and the arrival date. Settling in is the one service where the price genuinely tracks the number of people, because every registration is per person.

What this does not cover

We do not open accounts or sign documents on your behalf. We prepare, book, brief and accompany.

Our regulatory positionsets out in full what we do and what we are not permitted to do.

Before you ring

How long does a registration card take?: There is no published service standard we are willing to quote you as a timing. What we can say is that the card is the thing everything else waits on, and that appointments are booked into a diary that fills. Arrange it before you land rather than after.
Can you open a bank account for me?: No, and nor can anyone else. The bank wants the person. What we can do is make sure the appointment succeeds first time, which means the right documents, a real address, and a card if the bank is asking for one.
We are arriving in stages. Does that cause problems?: It is a common and sensible pattern. The trap is that several registrations are per person and cannot be done by proxy, so the later arrivals repeat a fortnight of the first. Plan both waves at the same time.
Do we need private medical insurance?: That is a household calculation rather than a rule, and it is different from the UK one — you are pricing against charged primary-care appointments and off-island specialist care rather than waiting lists. Price it against how your household actually uses healthcare before cancelling anything you hold.
Is any of this different for a High Value Resident?: The arrival layer is much the same; the sequence in front of it is not. What changes is that the housing permission is already settled by the time you land, which removes the constraint that holds most arrivals up.

Arrive with the sequence already booked

Tell us your arrival date and who is coming. We will have the appointments, documents and accounts lined up in the order that works.