UK to Mexico Removals

Tourist status does not let you settle or work. The same advice says “Tourists cannot do any type of voluntary or paid work or activity”, and that a visa for work has to be obtained from the embassy before you travel.

Residence is the part this page cannot answer. GOV.UK points to the Mexican Embassy in the UK for visa applications; the embassy and immigration pages did not open for us, so the temporary and permanent residence routes, their costs and their timing are not yet confirmed. Ask the embassy before you book a shipment, because the customs treatment of household goods depends on your status (see the Mexico customs page).

Leaving something off the form is costly: “If you do not declare goods, customs officials may seize them and you could get a fine”. That sentence is written for travellers with luggage. Whether a container of household goods follows the same form, or is handled by your mover’s customs agent, is a question for the consulate and the mover.

States named with a full or partial warning include Baja California (the cities of Tijuana and Tecate), Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Michoacán, Colima, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Jalisco and Chiapas, each with its own exceptions and map. If your destination or the road to it is in one of them, ask your mover how the route is chosen. The Colima and Manzanillo guide and the Guadalajara page quote the lines that touch their areas.

The warning is about people travelling. Whether it changes cargo cover or a mover’s willingness to drive a route was not stated, so ask both your insurer and the mover.

The Pacific side has its own entry: Manzanillo is covered on the Colima and Manzanillo page. No sailing times, freight rates or terminal pages were readable, so none are quoted. Ask your mover which port suits the destination, then see the Mexico City page for the capital or the Monterrey page for the north-east.

The Mexico removals guide lists every place page. UK-side paperwork is in the UK customs documentation checklist.