Documents to be carried - Studying Abroad at foreign universities

You are success full in getting admission into a foreign university and you are excited to travel. While packing the items you want to carry its good to pay special attention to the documents. Its often noticed that students forget to carry valuable documents or misplace them in hurry! There fore in the list of items you are carrying while traveling abroad give documents the high priority. Following are the few important documents to which you should pay attention:

• Passport: It may seem, its easy to remember. But passport is one of the most important document, student miss place during travel. Plan well where you are going to put your passport in your travelling bag ( Never ever put it in your check in bag), always make sure that you place back the passport after showing it to officers at airport or to any other authorities. Never give it to strangers. Scan the passport and email it to your personal email account. Its good to carry copies of passport in your check in bags and leave a copy with your family.
• Travelling tickets and Passes: Before travelling just imagine as if you are travelling from the source to destination and ask yourself where you might need the tickets, it may be air tickets, bus or train. Make sure that you have all the required tickets in your travelling bag, Also leave the copy of those tickets with your family.
• Money: Check out the currency of the country you are travelling and make sure you have enough money in cash till you reach the destination. Its good to carry money in different formats for example travelers check, credit cards, preloaded debit cards etc... Never carry huge cash with you and never give any cash information to strangers.
• Medical Insurance: Its very important to have medical insurance before you travel. There are various options available to get medical insurance. Better is to contact the university you are going for more information on the medical insurance. Each country has its own medical system and medical facility at some countries are very costly. Therefore its strongly advised not to take any chance better purchase a medical insurance.
• University Admission Documents: Carry all the college admission documents such as admission confirmation, fee payment receipt, scholarship and all other documents provided by admitting university or college.
• Other documents to carry:  - If you have made the arrangement for stay such as hostel, apartment or hotel, make sure that you carry the copy of document confirming the booking. - All the documents, which you submitted to Visa office in your country to get travel visa.

If possible scan all the copies of  important documents and carry in the flash drive or external hard disk ( Its good to email into your personal email account). Finally make sure that the travel bag containing all the documents is always with you.

Add any other documents to be carried while travelling abroad for studies in the comment section.