Our story
Built by someone who did it the hard way first.
ArrivalKit is the 90-day plan its founder wishes someone had handed him before the flight. Here’s where it came from.
The short version
- Korea
- Singapore
- United States
I’ve moved countries three times: Korea, then Singapore, then the United States. You’d think the third one would be easy.
It wasn’t. I arrived with a signed offer letter and a salary about to start, and found I couldn’t do the basic things money is for. No SSN yet, so no bank account. No US credit history, so no credit card, and no apartment, because every landlord runs a check and I came back blank. Employed, funded, and completely invisible to the system that decides whether you can rent a place to sleep.
The maddening part wasn’t that it was hard. It was that all of it was solvable, and nobody tells you how. You can open an account before you fly. You can get a landlord to take three months upfront and an offer letter instead of a credit score. There’s an order to do things in so the deadlines don’t run you over. I learned every one of these the slow way, usually right after it would have helped.
So I started keeping a list: what to do before the flight, what to do in week one, what quietly has a clock on it. By the time I’d been through benefits enrollment and my first US tax season, it had turned into something a friend could actually follow.
That’s ArrivalKit. The 90-day plan I wish someone had handed me, personalized to your visa, your state, and your timeline, because an L1 moving to Texas and an H1B moving to California are not running the same race. I’m not an immigration lawyer or a tax advisor. I’m just someone who did this enough times to write down what nobody else will.
What you actually get
A plan, not a blog post.
Personalized to you
Answer five questions and the 47 tasks filter down to what applies to your visa, your state, your timeline, your comp. No generic checklist.
Ordered by what hurts
Six chapters, sequenced by what costs you most if you miss it: tax traps, benefits windows, banking, housing, getting around, visa realities.
Comparisons built in
When a task needs a tool, the options are right there: Wise vs Remitly, Chase vs Bank of America, with fees and the catch spelled out.
Don’t learn it
the hard way.
The plan took three moves and a lot of mistakes to write. It takes you 90 seconds to start.
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