CurrencyFair Blog Coming home: How to prepare for your return home from overseas

What happens when a period of living and working abroad comes to an end? It could be sooner than you expected. Around 4% of people return home within a year, although most spend between 5 and 10 years overseas. There’s been a steady exodus from the United Arab Emirates after the pandemic, and significant departures from Hong Kong, China (Covid) and Singapore (cost of living). Brexit also forced any British citizens who didn’t have settled status in the European Union to leave the EU too.