Movers & storage
expat-services.ch lists 4 hand-checked English-speaking international movers in Genève: Atlas International Movers, Gosselin Switzerland, Harsch and Santa Fe Relocation.
Besides English, they also work in French, German and Dutch. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Relocation agencies in Genève.
4 providers
Dutch-origin international mover with Swiss offices in Zurich and Geneva since 2020, handling international, domestic, corporate and office moves plus storage.
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Is this your business?Belgian-group international mover with Swiss offices and warehouses near Basel, Bern, Geneva and Zurich; door-to-door, diplomatic and art moves.
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Is this your business?Family-run Geneva mover since 1957 offering Swiss and international household moves, office relocations, furniture storage and fine art transport.
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Is this your business?International mover and relocation provider active in Switzerland since 1968, covering moves, customs, immigration/visa support, home and school search.
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Is this your business?Local facts
In 2025 the canton counted 19,243 foreign nationals moving in from other cantons or abroad and 12,844 moving out (OCSTAT Mémento 2026, checked ). Foreign cross-border commuters working in the canton numbered 116,195 (31 Dec 2025) (OCSTAT Mémento 2026, checked ). A holder of a cross-border permit (G) who settles in Geneva while keeping the job applies for a residence permit with gainful activity instead (Canton of Geneva, checked ).
Household effects are cleared at a customs office for commercial goods, Monday to Friday during opening hours and, at a few large offices, on Saturday morning (FOCBS, checked ). Form 18.44 and the inventory are filed there. The federal customs authority’s directory of offices filters by service and shows addresses and opening hours (FOCBS, checked ), and the federal information line for customs rules is +41 58 467 15 15 (FOCBS, checked ).
Goods can arrive before the OCPM has issued the permit. Its published averages for other permits without gainful activity are 3 months for EU nationals and 8 months for non-European nationals, and UK nationals have followed the non-EU/EFTA route since 2021 (Canton of Geneva, checked ) (ge.ch arrival, checked ). Customs accepts a declaration of departure from the former country together with the lease or employment contract as proof of the move, and clears goods provisionally against a guarantee when papers are missing, leaving six months to hand them in (FOCBS, checked ).
Newcomers announce their arrival to the cantonal population and migration office (OCPM), route de Chancy 88 in Onex (ge.ch OCPM, checked ). Most procedures run online through an e-démarches account on ge.ch, and the counters open by appointment only. The deadline after arrival is 14 days (2026) (ge.ch arrival, checked ), and a first B or L permit costs an EU/EFTA adult CHF 65 (Canton of Geneva, checked ). The steps are in registering at your commune.
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