Container via Veracruz or Manzanillo
Chosen by destination city to shorten trucking inside Mexico.
Latin America · Colombia ⇄ Mexico
International movers between Colombia and Mexico
Executives, families and students move between Colombia and Mexico in both directions. The key document is obtained here, before shipping: the certified household goods list.
Colombia ⇄ Mexico
To import household goods into Mexico with tax benefits you need a consular certificate of your household goods list, issued only by the Mexican consular office in the country where you lived; if you are leaving Colombia, that is the Mexican Embassy in Bogotá. Permanent residents import duty-free, temporary residents under temporary import, and a Mexican customs broker is always involved.
How your move travels to Mexico
For Mexico City and central Mexico we usually arrive at Veracruz from the Caribbean; for Guadalajara or the Pacific coast, at Manzanillo from Buenaventura. There is no direct land route: the Darién Gap has no road.
Groupage
For students or one-room moves.
Air to Mexico City
For urgent items, documents and essentials.
- Arrival: Seaports: Veracruz, Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas
- Arrival: Airport: Mexico City
Household goods rules for Mexico
Mexico applies different rules depending on your immigration status and requires its consulate to certify your list before shipping.
- Certificate of the household goods list, issued by the Mexican consular office in the country where you lived; get it before shipping.
- Permanent resident: definitive, duty-free import. Temporary resident or student: temporary import for the length of your status.
- List in Spanish, signed, with description and quantity of each item; make, model and serial for electrical items.
- Used goods only; items bought at least six months before import count as used.
- Vehicles, alcoholic beverages and goods used for commercial or industrial activity are excluded.
- A Mexican customs broker clears the shipment at the port of entry.
What not to pack for Mexico
- Vehicles inside the household goods.
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Perishable food, plants and seeds.
- New goods that cannot be justified as personal use.
Moving back from Mexico to Colombia
For people returning from Mexico City, Monterrey or Guadalajara, our agent collects and the container leaves from the most convenient Mexican port to Cartagena or Buenaventura, where our own customs broker clears it.
How moving to Colombia works“Goods handled with care, clean work, excellent staff, very fast and efficient. I have no complaints at all.”
Questions about moving to Mexico
Where do I get the household goods certificate if I live in Colombia?
At the Mexican Embassy in Bogotá. It must be issued by the consular office of the country where you lived and from which the goods ship.
Can I include my car in a move to Mexico?
Not as part of household goods. Vehicles follow a different regime and should be reviewed separately.
What changes if I am a temporary resident?
Your goods enter under temporary import for the duration of your status, instead of the definitive relief for permanent residents.
Can I move from Colombia to Mexico by land?
There is no road across the Darién Gap, so moves travel by sea or air.