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Changes and corrections

A record of material content and tool changes.

7 October 2026: a focused relocation cash-planning product

  • Rebuilt the site's purpose, navigation and visual design around evidence, housing offers, moving cash and payment dates.
  • Retired broad visa, tax and working-hours content from the active site. Unsupported and unrelated legacy routes return genuine noindex 404 pages; the existing housing case moved to a descriptive address.
  • Added a housing comparison calculator with term costs, deposits, move-in prepayments, uncertain-bill ranges, funding gaps, valid cost crossovers and local CSV/JSON files.
  • Added explicit in-memory baseline comparisons and an accessible balance graph to the dated cash-flow planner. A changed currency blocks numerical comparisons.
  • Rebuilt the monthly and moving worksheets with blank starting fields, explicit fictional examples, optional local evidence notes and accurate cross-tool handoffs.
  • Published original case studies on annual prepayments, deposit-refund gaps, full transfer costs and payment commitments. The deposit case includes an editable teaching calendar.
  • Disclosed AI-assisted production and the exact calculation methods. Removed unsupported credential metadata. Funding is secondary to the tools, with one optional commercial quote source at the point of use.
  • Moved the optional Google-service choices after guide content. The prior-load permission, valid-consent requirement, refusal and withdrawal controls remain in place.

This release makes no promise of AdSense approval, ongoing legal compliance or earnings. A new advertising review was already requested on 7 October; the site has not been removed and re-added.

7 October 2026: connected budgets and checkable decisions

  • Connected the monthly worksheet to the moving budget and dated cash-flow draft through explicit local carry buttons. Actual dates and bills are still required; example savings are cleared when your own monthly figures are carried.
  • Added editable cash-flow files that can be saved and reopened locally. Unsupported or invalid files leave the current calendar unchanged.
  • Replaced the general destination worksheet with an original housing-offer case comparing arrival cash, six-month costs, deposits, uncertain bills and a nine-month cost crossing.
  • Added a complete backwards document schedule with a validity-window check, plus blank CSV records for housing evidence and document dependencies.
  • Made reproducible tool outcomes central on the homepage and clarified referral funding. Updated privacy disclosures for optional tab-session handoffs and local files.

6 October 2026: identifiable website requests

Added an ExpatTools subject to contact-form notifications so website and privacy requests can be identified in the publisher’s inbox.

5 October 2026: matching quotes and privacy recovery

  • Added a local brief for requesting a matching second transfer quote, using the first quote’s total debit and currencies.
  • Kept supplier referral links separate from worksheet entries, with commission disclosure at the point of use.
  • Restored privacy controls when Google’s service does not respond. Advertising remains paused until the required valid privacy choice is available.
  • Redirected duplicate index addresses to their canonical pages and shortened older tool redirects.
  • Clarified that contact-form email notifications depend on their configuration.

1 October 2026: reusable plans and quote records

  • Added a dated cash-flow planner with a downloadable schedule, explicit same-day timing assumptions and reserve checks.
  • Added local downloads for moving and monthly-cost worksheets.
  • Added quote timing, funding and delivery notes to transfer comparisons and a locally generated report.
  • Replaced the outdated social preview of withdrawn city prices and rankings with the current five tools.
  • Completed publisher contact details and corrected Google consent initialization. Advertising continues to require valid privacy choices and Google approval.
  • Added publishing checks for active routes, links, structured data and tool calculations; excluded obsolete source files from public deployments.

30 September 2026: planning toolkit rebuilt

  • Replaced preset city costs and exchange assumptions with user-entered budgets and real quote comparisons.
  • Separated moving costs, refundable deposits and protected cash reserves.
  • Replaced static tax and visa comparisons with sourced research guides.
  • Withdrew unsupported city rankings and destination preset pages from the active website.
  • Reworked working-hours comparison around a specified date and browser time-zone rules.
  • Served fonts locally and introduced explicit advertising consent controls.
  • Focused the commercial model on clearly labelled transfer referrals and potential advertising subject to Google approval.

This revision does not establish that Google will approve advertising or that the site will earn a particular amount.

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