Printable Travel Document Checklist (Free PDF)

The printed rows cover passport, national ID card, visa or entry permit, travel insurance policy, health or vaccination record, driving licence and permit, flight tickets and boarding passes, train, bus and ferry tickets, accommodation bookings, car hire voucher, paperwork for a child travelling, pet travel paperwork, bank and payment cards, cash and spare cards, emergency contact list, and copies of all of the above. Two blank rows at the end take whatever your trip adds.

Five columns run across each row: a tick box for having it, the number or reference, the date it is valid until, a tick box for having made a copy, and where it is kept. The expiry column is the one that catches people out, because it is rarely the passport itself that has lapsed but the insurance, the licence or a permit nobody thought to look at.

What the sheet does not do is tell you what any destination requires. That depends on where you are going, your nationality, how you travel and who travels with you, and only the authority or the carrier concerned can answer it. A line under the table repeats the advice that matters either way: keep the copies apart from the originals — one set in another bag, one with someone at home, one in your email or cloud drive — and a ruled box records where yours are. One page, US Letter or A4.