India to Europe
Moving a dog or cat from India to Europe
The EU animal health certificate, a rabies antibody test and the wait your new country sets. Allow 4 months or more, and tell us the exact country early.
Stop by stop
The timeline for Europe.
In the order it happens. Where the authority sets a minimum gap, it's written on the line.
01 · Start
Start planning
4 months or more, and we need the exact country.
02 · Vet
Microchip
ISO 11784/11785, before the rabies work.
03 · Vet
Rabies vaccine
Recorded against the chip number.
04 · Vet
Antibody test
At an approved lab, to the EU's Annex IV standard.
05 · Wait
The country's wait
Set by the member state, not one EU rule. We check yours.
06 · Papers
EU health certificate
Plus the export permit endorsed in India.
- about 7 days before
07 · Check
AQCS export check
The pet and the whole file go to the quarantine office, by appointment, about a week before the flight. The export certificate is good for 10 days.
08 · Travel
Flight
The mode the airline and route allow.
09 · Arrive
Home
The same team runs the far end from the same file: the import permit, the clearance, the duties and any inspection, then the drive to your new address. Someone from our team is with your pet after he lands.
Families who took this route, in their own words.
“We were kept up to date on Scobby's progress through customs and received regular pictures and videos on her onward travel to Paris.”
“I was informed by the team during each of the stages in the process which greatly reduced by anxiety about their well being.”
How it works.
For the EU, the microchip, the rabies vaccine, the antibody test at an approved lab and the waiting period after it are one regulated sequence. The wait isn't one fixed EU rule, so we check the member state you're moving to before we fix a date.
We take the blood sample with your own vet or a government approved vet, send it to an approved international lab, and hold the travel date until the result is in our hands. On top go the EU animal health certificate for entry from outside the EU, and the export permit endorsed by the Indian authorities.
The file for Europe
- The EU animal health certificate for non-commercial entry from a non-EU country.
- A rabies antibody test to Annex IV of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013, and the waiting period your country applies.
- The extra documents and blood tests Europe asks for on top of the standard export file.
All of this sits on top of the standard export file.
Quarantine: Not in our published list
Our published list names a held quarantine place for Singapore and Malaysia. It doesn't name this destination, and it doesn't say anywhere else is exempt either. So we check the current position with the authority, for your pet and your date, before anything is booked.
The thing that moves the date
Each member state can add its own conditions, so the country matters as well as the bloc. Tell us whether it's Lisbon or Berlin, not just Europe.
Checked against the authority's own pages
- European Commission, non-commercial entry from non-EU countries read 31 Aug 2026
Rules change. We check the live rule for your pet and your dates before anything is booked, and nothing here is a promise about a date.
Tell us about him.
The quickest way is a message. Both of these open with it already written, from what you picked above, and a founder answers.
Hi, I'd like to move my pet.
Or fill in his pass, and it goes on WhatsApp or by email with everything in it