Household Goods Import Certificate for Foreigners

(Menaje de casa)

 

What is a Household Goods Import Certificate?

This certificate is issued to regulate entry of personal belongings and household goods for foreigners that will reside in Mexico for more than 180 days, or are coming back to the country after staying abroad for at least six months continuously. Those persons can import their household belongings free of import taxes. 

This includes the following used goods:

  • Trousseau and furniture of a house that serve exclusively and properly for the ordinary use and treatment of a family.
  • Clothing, books, bookcases, works of art or science (which do not constitute complete collections for the installation of exhibitions or art galleries).
  • Professional scientific instruments, worker’s tools and artisans essential for the development of the applicant's profession, art or trade (they may not constitute complete equipment for the installation of laboratories, offices or workshops).

In order for the applicant to carry out this procedure at the Consulate, they must necessarily need to be a holder of a Temporary or Permanent Resident Visa or a Temporary or Permanent Resident card.

 

How to request a Menaje de Casa?

* You can come to the Consulate from Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.

  • Include your contact information along with scanned documents for their revision. Once we have confirmed that everything is correct, we will let you know the date and time that you have your consular visit to finish the process.

Process: 

  1. Identification with current photograph and Mexican visa or permanent resident immigration card (franchise, temporary or student import), issued by the National Institute of Migration (INM). (original and 4 copies)
  2. Application duly filled out, without erasures or errors. 

      

     3. Foreign Residence: Share the address where you established your residence abroad; in this case, it is not necessary to provide documents to prove foreign residence. 

Residence in Mexico: Share the place where you will establish residence in Mexico and where you reside abroad. In this case, it will not be necessary for the interested party to present evidentiary documents, instead a declaration under penalty of perjury. 

          

 

     4.   Inventory: You must make a computer inventory where you will declare under protest to tell the truth, all the goods that you intend to take with you to Mexico. These assets are made up of your furniture, appliances, your clothing, ornaments or home decoration, in itself all the assets that make up what is normal in a home according to the family that lived there. (Original and 4 copies).

 

Points to consider: 

 *  All electrical appliances must be listed with their respective brand, model and serial number.

* The boxes, suitcases or packages must be numbered and accounted for what goes in each of them, the list must clearly describe what each box contains.

*  If you estimate that the total value of your goods to be imported exceeds $1,000 dollars, you must hire the services of a customs broker. The customs site offers the following links where you can find customs agencies if you do not already have one:

www.caaarem.org.mx

www.claa.org.mx

 

Note: This service is in addition to the household goods certificate, it is necessary since they prepare an import request that you must present when importing goods. You will only pay the customs broker fees. This does not mean that you are paying taxes on those assets.

     5. In the case of temporary importation, you must state in writing that you are obliged to return the goods and, in case of change of address, give notice to the customs authority.

FEE: $190.00 USD

 

Once the list has been signed and stamped, it is not possible to replace any of its pages. Articles which are not on the list and which are included in household goods, at the time of their revision by customs duties, may be imported by paying the respective taxes with the help of a customs agency.

 

What can I do if I want to take my vehicle?

The vehicles are not part of the household goods, so you must carry out the process of Temporary Importation of Vehicles in the Customs of entry to Mexico or through the Banjercito offices located at the Consulates of Mexico in Los Ángeles, Sacramento or San Bernardino. If you wish to carry out the final import procedure, you must hire the services of a customs agent, who is the person authorized to carry out the import procedures before Customs.

 

 

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