A large share of Scottsdale addresses sit inside managed communities with a guard at the gate, and those communities decide who gets in, in what vehicle, on which day.
We connect your enquiry with a vetted international moving company from our network covering the Phoenix metro, and they deal with the community requirements as part of the booking.
Goods normally arrive through southern California, roughly twenty six to thirty two days from the UK on published 2026 schedules, then travel around three hundred and seventy miles east to the metro area.
Names, vehicle registrations, insurance certificates and permitted days. Get the list before the container is booked.
A moving company from the network confirms the sailing, the clearance, the road leg and the registration the community requires.
The written quote covers the whole journey and the access arrangements are agreed before delivery day.
Customs is settled in California before the road leg, so by the time the gate paperwork matters the federal side is already done. 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.
CBP Form 3299 carries the free entry claim because the shipment travels apart from you, with items owned under twelve months itemised on their own. Goods landing more than ten years after your last arrival from the country where they were used normally lose the relief.
Two separate approval processes therefore run on this move, one federal and one from your community. Neither substitutes for the other and both take time.
Before the inventory is finalised
Arizona is served through the southern California ports, with a day of driving east afterwards. The shipping side is the same as any southwest destination.
What is different is the last hundred yards. Where a community controls the gate, the delivery date depends as much on their approval process as on the vessel schedule, and that approval takes time to obtain.
The ocean leg to southern California runs roughly twenty six to thirty two days on 2026 schedules, then clearance and around three hundred and seventy miles east. Allow six to eight weeks door to door.
Crew names, vehicle details and proof of insurance, registered several days in advance, plus agreement on which day and hours the move can happen.
The vehicle waits outside the gate, and that waiting time is charged to you. It is the most avoidable cost on this route.
The moving company handles their side, but the community usually deals with the resident, so you will need to start it.
Southern California handles container traffic for the southwest, and the goods travel east by road from there.
They qualify where they were for your own use, or used in a household where you were a resident, for one year, and are not intended for sale or for another person.
The declaration used to claim free entry for goods arriving separately from you. The company quoting your Scottsdale move will set this out in the written quote.
Sometimes. Larger properties and restricted vehicle access can mean a considerable carry, which belongs in the quote rather than as a surprise.
No. The moving company provides a written quote and you decide. Anyone quoting a Scottsdale move should be able to explain this without being asked twice.
Send the collection address, the Scottsdale delivery address and what your community requires at the gate, your date and a rough inventory. A moving company from our network contacts you.
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 move anything ourselves. Your Scottsdale move is handled and quoted by the moving company you are introduced to.
Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.