01Pre-arrival
Visa, plane ticket, expectations.
We do
- Document checklist
- Apostille coordination
- Cédula appointment booked
You do
- Gather documents
- Decide arrival date
- Tell us your priorities
Visa · cédula · banking · healthcare · settlement
Most relocation companies in Colombia are visa mills. They charge a premium to file forms, hand you a temporary cédula, and send you on your way. Three weeks later you are in a bank branch trying to explain in broken Spanish why your US passport plus a freshly stamped visa is not enough to open a checking account, and the visa mill is not answering WhatsApp.
The visa is the easy part. Settlement is what breaks people. The bank account that takes four tries because the first three branches do not open accounts for foreigners on your visa class. The healthcare enrollment that requires a notarized translation of a document your home country does not issue. The school waitlist, the lease that needs a Colombian co-signer, the driver's license process that nobody can explain consistently because the answer changed again.
We sit beside you for the first ninety days. The visa, yes, but also the bank, healthcare, school, lease, license, utilities, SIM card, delivery apps, and the apartment that does not smell like the last tenant's dog. The questions you are about to have are the reason the service exists.
Five questions. Ninety seconds. You will know which Colombian visa pathway fits your situation - Migrante M, Retiree, Digital Nomad, or Investor - before you finish your coffee. The recommendation is a starting point; the real work happens with a human reviewing your documents.
We don't store your answers. The recommendation is a starting point - every Colombian visa application has details only a real human can sort.
Tell us about your situation. We'll point at the right path - Migrante, Pensionado, Digital Nomad, or Investor - and explain why.
Most moves to Medellín take ninety days from "I am doing this" to "I am settled." Here is what each phase actually looks like when we are running it with you.
Complete the visa finder with your passport, income, family, work, and timing details. Use the result to identify the likely pathway and the questions a qualified professional still needs to confirm.
Apostilles, translations, document gathering, visa application, Colombian consulate appointment. We run point on the paperwork, you sign things. Most of this happens before you board the plane.
Airport pickup. Cedula appointment scheduled. Bank account opened. SIM card. Apartment viewings if you do not have one yet. We are with you for the appointments that matter.
Healthcare enrollment, school enrollment if applicable, utility transfers, driver's license process started, tax registration, and the things that cannot be done in week one. Weekly check-ins until you tell us you are settled.
The visa was not the hard part. The hard part was everything after: the bank, the lease, the healthcare enrollment, and knowing which appointment mattered next.
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The practical checklist
Documents, banking, healthcare, housing, and costs—from 90 days before arrival through your first 90 days in Medellín.
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