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Vivere · To live, to be alive

Terra Vivere

Relocation services · Visa & residency processing · Employee outsourcing · Soft-landing support

The discipline behind the work

Living in Mexico is not the same as visiting Mexico.

The legal, fiscal, and social embedding that converts a long stay into actual residency is a multi-month, multi-agency process most foreigners discover the hard way — usually after the move, when the original timeline has already slipped twice.

Terra Vivere handles that embedding before it slips. Residency strategies built for the long horizon, not just the visa stamp. Employer-of-record and IMSS infrastructure for the buyer bringing employees, contractors, or remote-work continuity. Banking, school enrollment, vehicle import, household staff registration, RFC for the spouse who needs one. The full architecture of being from somewhere, applied to a country you are choosing to be from.

The Maya tradition's most fundamental ceremonial moment is the planting of the seed — the act that converts what is held in the hand into what is held by the ground. Vivere is the seed entering the soil, made operational across the residency stack.
What Terra Vivere is

Not just moving to Mexico. Actually living here.

Relocating to Mexico is a decision millions of people make every year. Very few of them have a guide. Most navigate it through Facebook groups, conflicting blog posts, and trial and error — accumulating avoidable mistakes, delays, and costs along the way.

Terra Vivere manages the full lifecycle of a Mexico relocation for individuals, families, and companies — from initial planning through full establishment in the country — including the legal, logistical, and administrative dimensions that derail most self-managed moves.

We build a relocation roadmap — a detailed, sequenced action plan covering every task, timeline, and responsible party — and then we manage its execution. Our clients don't coordinate their relocation. We do.

Services

From intention to inhabitation.

Relocation planning & management

A structured discovery, a detailed roadmap, and end-to-end execution management. Every task, timeline, and responsible party documented.

Visa & residency processing

Tourist permits, temporary residency, permanent residency, and specialized categories for retirees, investors, and high-income earners. We advise on the right pathway, prepare documentation, coordinate with consulates and INM offices, and own the outcome — not just the paperwork.

Employee outsourcing (IMSS & payroll)

IMSS registration, INFONAVIT contributions, SAT payroll reporting, vacation, aguinaldo, profit sharing — Mexico's labor law is unforgiving. Terra Vivere provides employer of record and payroll administration so your exposure to disputes and regulatory penalties is minimized. This is the same infrastructure TCG uses internally.

Soft-landing services

Neighborhood orientation, school research and enrollment coordination, utilities and internet setup, bank account introduction, local healthcare provider recommendations, domestic staff placement, and a regional orientation program that gives new arrivals genuine local knowledge — not the tourist version.

Corporate relocation

Multi-employee visa and work-permit coordination, executive housing sourcing (integrated with Terra Secura and Terra Domus), onboarding support, and ongoing compliance management. The same end-to-end discipline applied to individual relocations, scaled to corporate requirements.

Ongoing compliance management

Residency renewals, visa extensions, RFC updates, SAT compliance monitoring — the administrative lifecycle that continues after arrival. Terra Vivere tracks what needs renewing, when, and makes sure it happens before it becomes a problem.

Why relocation fails

The failures are bureaucratic, not dramatic.

A visa application delayed because a document wasn't apostilled correctly. An IMSS registration missed because the employer didn't know it was required within the first week of employment. A school enrollment rejected because a transcript wasn't translated by a certified translator. A lease signed in a neighborhood that looked good online and felt wrong immediately.

Terra Vivere's job is to have seen every one of these failures before — so that our clients don't experience their first one. Every open item has a named owner, a deadline, and a documented status. Timelines are tracked in a shared system the client can access at any time.

We measure success one way. Did the client actually land well? Not "were the documents submitted" — but did the family arrive, get established, and feel at home within the timeline we committed to? That is the only metric that matters.

The Terraforte ecosystem

Relocation is an entry point into everything.

Terra Secura

The family relocating to Mexico needs a home. Vivere and Secura run in parallel.

Terra Advisus

Immigration and residency decisions have financial and tax implications that need to be designed together, not sequentially.

Terra Domus

Remote workers arriving in Mexico may need their home-country rental property managed while they transition.

Terra Medica

Extended-stay medical clients who decide to stay become relocation clients. Vivere is the natural next step.

Terra Mercatus

Foreign operators acquiring Mexican businesses use Vivere for visa, residency, and IMSS infrastructure.

TCG Hospitality

TCG's regional infrastructure delivers vetted local relationships — schools, healthcare, services — to new arrivals.

Moving to Mexico? Start here.

The first conversation maps where you are and what it actually takes to land well.

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