Plenty of moves here happen in two parts: one person goes ahead with the essentials, the rest of the household follows once schools or a house sale allow it. That is a shipping decision as much as a family one.
We connect your enquiry with a vetted international moving company from our network covering eastern Wisconsin, and they can price a single shipment or a staged one.
Goods clear at an east coast port, roughly fourteen to seventeen days from the UK on published schedules, then travel inland to Wisconsin by road or rail.
The essentials: arrival an east coast port, then inland; ocean leg roughly fourteen to seventeen days; door to door usually five to seven weeks in total; staged moves two shipments, two declarations, two dates; alternative one shipment plus storage is often cheaper; currency exchange help included with your move.
Eastern Wisconsin is reached overland after a short Atlantic crossing, with clearance on the coast and a moderate inland stage. Nothing about the route itself is unusual.
What is worth thinking about is timing. Splitting a household across two shipments doubles the paperwork and the arrival dates, and storing one shipment until everyone is ready is frequently the cheaper answer.
Who qualifies
If the household travels in two shipments, the customs test is applied to each one separately rather than to the move as a whole. Effects qualify where they were used by you, or in a household where you were a resident, for a year, and are not intended for sale or for someone else.
The declaration
That means two Form 3299 declarations, two inventories and two lists of anything owned under twelve months. Each shipment stands on its own paperwork, and an error on the second is not fixed by the first having been correct.
What catches people
The ten year limit applies to both, measured from your last arrival from the country where the goods were used.
Before the inventory is finalised
It changes the shape of the quote, and the comparison against storage is worth doing properly.
A moving company from the network prices the options: one shipment, two shipments, or one shipment held in storage.
The written quote sets out each option so you can compare them side by side.
The Atlantic crossing runs roughly fourteen to seventeen days on published schedules, then clearance and the inland stage. Allow five to seven weeks door to door.
Yes, and it is common where one person travels ahead. Each shipment needs its own declaration and arrives on its own date, so price it against the alternative.
Usually. You pay twice for the fixed costs of a move. One shipment with storage at one end is often cheaper, though not always.
Yes. Each arrives separately and is assessed on its own, so the paperwork has to be right twice rather than once.
An east coast port, then the goods travel inland to Wisconsin. The port depends on the service booked.
They qualify where they were used by you, or in a household where you were a resident, for one year, and are not intended for sale or for someone else.
The declaration supporting a free entry claim for goods that arrive without you. It applies to every Milwaukee shipment we connect, whatever size the move is.
Say so at enquiry stage. Every item goes up a full staircase, which changes the crew and the length of the day.
Yes. The moving company provides a written quote and there is no charge for the introduction.
Send the collection address, the Milwaukee delivery address, your date, a rough inventory and say whether the household is travelling in two parts. A moving company from our network prices the options.
Send your move detailsA Working Member of AGM Group. Enquiries are connected with vetted FIDI FAIM certified and BAR Overseas accredited international moving companies from the network.
We do not carry out moves ourselves. The Milwaukee move is arranged and quoted by the moving company you are connected with.
Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.