Peru-Chile Border | Customs and Immigration

Crossed from Peru to Chile today (Monday) at 11 PM.
New opening hours: Friday 8 AM to Wednesday 11 PM nonstop (24 hrs).
Did buy checklist from taxi driver.
Everything smooth.

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We crossed Peru —> Chile on a Tuesday morning. The lines were fairly short and moved quickly. Sometimes there was no one in front of us. The step-by-step instructions given here previously still work. We needed 3 copies of the half-page transit form. If you fill it out in advance, it’ll save time. We left some spaces blank because we didn’t know what they meant, and they didn’t say anything. After passport x 2 and TIP x 2, we got back in the Jeep and drove through the inspection lane (going around the parked cars). Our inspector was professional, but didn’t know what to do with a casa rodante. He wanted us to take “all our bags” to get inspected in the building, like everyone else. We insisted we couldn’t and that it was our home. We surrendered some fruit and veggies. They only wanted fruit, veggies, and seeds. They didn’t care about dairy or meat. (Note: there are large and lovely grocery stores in Arica where you can get new produce.) There was a dog they brought to the back of our camper to sniff around. The dog was probably overwhelmed like the people. :) Overall, the process was organized. Note the time change is TWO HOURS this time of year. So 10:30 am in Peru was 12:30 pm in Chile. Crazy.

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Read all the descriptions on here so was kind of mentally prepared to be messed around a bit for my Chile to Peru border crossing with a UK registered Motorcycle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Got here about 3pm and was done in 20 minutes. Windows/booths 1 2 3 and 4 in that order. All in the same place, in the middle of the road. Really easy. Don't forget your Espresa De Transportes paperwork, which you can get with your SOAT at the bus terminal in Arica. See my "Check-in" there. Very easy.

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Peru >> Chile with a dog
90 minutes, on a busy Friday starting at 3:45pm

Print 2 9f these: t.ly/Idmj8 (capitol "I" dmj8)

Parked in the shade on the right, before the rows of cars

1) Peru IMMIGRATION - Island #2. Need 4 half sheets of entry form, available from link above. They stamp at each window and collect at exit.

2) DOG - SAG to enter Chile with dog in white container building - she looked briefly at vet paper and EU PP and stamped back of vet paper. No Fees. We never bothered getting pet papers entering Peru from Ecuador. Vet deworming is supposed to be 5-30 days from crossing - we got ours 5 days before.

3) Chile immigration - Island #1. You will get a paper receipt for when you leave Chile in the future.

4) TIP - Still Island #1, right side past Immigration there are 2 windows. Cancel Peru TIP at first window. At second window get carbon copy TIP (blue/white) and fill out. They will keep original and you get the copy

5) INJECTION - Back to van and join the line between Island 1 & 2 for SAG vehicle inspection. We showed our dog food. No meats, cheese, fruits, veg, etc.

6) At exit gate, guard will collect the half page with all the stamps.

Our Bitel and Claro prepaid SIMs from Peru still work in Arica.

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I don't know what the big deal is with the relacion de pasajeros form. You can just go online and print them out beforehand, no need to run around looking for bus/taxi drivers to buy the forms from them. You need 3 THREE copies per crossing. I've even shortened the links for you!

ARICA to TACNA - https://t.ly/qB5Sc

TACNA to ARICA - https://t.ly/Idmj8

Solo Car, Van, Motorcycle or Bicycle - Fill out the top portion and DO NOT list your own name in the manifest, leave that section blank.
Vehicle with other passengers - Driver fills out their details in the top section. All other passenger details in the manifest section.

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WARNING :
1/ the so called « passengers » file that need to be given to exit Peru was not available anyomore at the « casino » (2nd floor)- They did not have any left (!) and told us to ask bus/taxi driver . Hopefully one had some spare and was kind enough to sell it to us (4 S)- ask before starting the loooong queue. If no one has some to help You, you ´ ll have to drive back to Tacna to buy one. (So silly) - No idea why it not writen anywhere anything about this paper.
2/ the paper for the car entrance of the car in Chile is made by computer most of the Time elsewhere. Here, you have to fill it yourself so ask at the desk before to have one and fill it up while you wait in the Line. Otherwise you have to queue again ! Once again : nothing explained anywhere.
It is the point only border between Chile and Peru so expect some Time here in the crowd ;-(

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Direction - Chile to Peru Jan 2024 on a motorcycle

I suggest parking your vehicle on the right side of the main building as you will be exiting the area through the customs lanes on the right.

What I Was Supposed To Do-
1. Enter the single storey building to the left and across the road of the main tall building. (Pictures uploaded) There will be 2 separate queues there. Go first to Chile immigration (counter 2 when I was there) and present your passport and THREE copies of declaracion de pasajeros (the downloaded copies I found online was suitable). You will be stamped out of Chile and the 3 manifests will be validated.

2. Next join the other queue which will take you through 3 different windows in succession. The first window is Peru immigration. Present your passport and all 3 manifests. You will be stamped into Peru and 2 manifests will be returned to you after further validation. Next window is Chile Aduana, here you will present your passport, temporary import permit and the 2 manifests. The TIP will be canceled and returned to you along with 1 manifest. The third window is actually Peru Aduana but they will not be able to issue Peru TIP here. You will be directed to a vehicle lane where your TIP will be issued.

3. Go to the Peru Aduana counter at one of the closed vehicle lanes (picture uploaded). Present your passport, vehicle registration document and canceled Chile TIP. The Peruvian TIP will be issued after your details are entered.

4. Go back to your vehicle and prepare to present the last manifest as you drive through the customs lane towards the main exit. Here they may check your belongings and inspect the manifest.

5. Follow the signs for the main exit and present the last manifest to the police before you make your departure. Then you are free to enter Peru!

What Actually Happened -
I arrived at 9.30am on a Tuesday and found huge crowds lining up for counter 1 (chile immigration). I went to the middle door of the main building (as I had read) but the lady in there didn’t seem to know what to do with me and asked me to join the long queues. As I joined the long queue (at least 2 hours wait), a security guard pulled me out when he noticed me carrying my helmet and helpfully directed me to the building the the left of the main building. Apparently if you are driving your own vehicle or in a taxi, you do your clearances in that building. The folks taking buses have to wait at the main building. The queues were much shorter in the vehicle clearance area.

After that I went to the middle door of the main building as I had been told to use the terminal there to enter my vehicle details. After doing so I went to the Peru Aduana counter in the closed vehicle lane to get my TIP.

I pushed my bike to the customs lane and they asked if I had any food. I usually take a pic of the contents in my food bag and show that to customs officials. 9 times out of 10 that usually suffices and they don’t make you open up panniers.

The whole process took me 1.5 hours and a lot of sweat. That included a lot of waiting around and figuring out what to do. If I had gone to the proper channels from the start I think it would’ve taken 1 hour tops. Everyone was really polite and helpful, even with my zero Spanish. Thank god for google translate. Do refer to the pictures I’ve posted to show you the places I mentioned.

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Opening hours at the moment: CHILEAN TIME
Friday 8 am till Monday 11 pm (nonstop, 24hrs open on weekend)
Tuesday till Thursday: 8 am to 11 pm

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just a report from the perspective of a cyclist. I assumed that as I don't have a "vehicle" I wouldn't need the 'relacion de pasajeros' form. no, everyone needs it! easiest way to get it is to go up to the overbridge (stairs next to lane 3). the "casino" (cafeteria) sells the forms here. and you can also get a nice menu lunch too! both peru soles and Chile pesos accepted. Once I had the form, I only needed to visit Lane 2 (peru exit) and Lane 1 "PDI" (chile entry), then move forward and have my bags x-rayed. that was that, and I cou I later changed my soles to pesos at a currency exchange counter inside the lider supermarket in mallplaza arica (although they only exchange notes).

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We did a TIP renew run, so crossed both ways in the same day, no problems. Get those documents (and extras!) at the bus station in Tacna before coming to the border. It’s insanely fast compared to any other border since Mexico, took like 40 minutes to Chile and 15 minutes back into Peru. She made a mistake on the number of days I had left coming back into Peru, so double check your passport stamp before you go. Not sure if it was just our official, but Peru was strict about 90 days total within a 180 day period, so only gave us the remaining 30 days in Peru, not a full new 90. They put the fruit/veggie/drug dogs inside our camper going into Chile, so make sure you don’t have anything. Also no meat allowed coming into Peru, even packaged. Clean washrooms!

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Our experience was similar to other checkins, except after driving up to the car inspection we were required to take all our luggage/bags out of our 4Runner and scan them before we could be inspected. Only the driver was allowed to do this for some reason, and everything we left in the vehicle-like our tub of kitchen stuff and my son's toy bag- was throughly searched. Because of the luggage scanning, the whole border crossing process took about an hour. Also, there is nowhere at the border to exchange money, so do that at the bus station in Tacna when you get your crossing papers.

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Big fronter post. We went through all the process today. Manage to get the paper « relacion passajeros » asking at some aduana people. As foreigners we didn’t have any issue to go through with a chilean vehicle (owned) even if we heard otherwise. Very friendly people at every post Chile and Peru 🤘🏼

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Chile to Peru: border was not very busy, documents got all done in 30 mins. We needed another hour to unpack all our luggage from our motorbike for ''inspection''. No one actually looked at anything.

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Chile to Peru: Border was very busy and slow, especially the Chile passport section but suspect this was due to Easter weekend approaching.

The document “relacion de pajaseros “ was needed for leaving Chile but thankfully the security guard just inside the building helped provide one. They use it like most other borders have a gate pass to ensure you have been to all relevant counters

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Direction Peru to Chile:
Super easy on a Saturday morning, took us less than an hour! BUT: You must bring the checklist (relacion de pasajeros)!!! Buy it at the international bus terminal in Tacna (see other point)

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Did not stop at the bus terminal in Peru as that posting said there is no paperwork there. So I was hopeful they would give the checklist at the first counter, but they did not. A bilingual man helped us ask a tour bus driver for it but he directed us to the taxi drivers. There were taxis in the parking lot but drivers were not in them at the moment. Found one in the line of people and he walked back to his car and handed us 3 papers( you need 1 form with 2 as carbon copies) for free. He handed us white papers and other people had blue papers, it doesn’t matter and they were half sheet sized. The other forms for declaration of goods we printed off at hotel beforehand. I don’t know how hard it is to get from others at the border. But if you can plan ahead a bit I would arrive with those. The website was on another person’s posting on here. After all the immigration and car stuff was done we drove the car up to the “inspection area”. I thought they were going to look inside but after a bit we figured out they wanted us to remove our suitcases and bags and take them into a room that X-ray scanned them. That’s when we first handed over the declaration papers. Then it was back to the car and someone else kinda looked in it but not very invasive. The dog was there smelling around too.

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We probably had a queue with ~100 people waiting at the Chilenian immigration. Maybe there were so many people due to the demonstrations/road blocks at all borders from Bolivia to Peru? However, they only had half of the counters running and they couldn't handle the amount of people, it took us 2,5 hours waiting there.
Peruvian Immigration and customs went much faster. We needed ~3,5 hours to cross from Chile to Peru.
In the beginning, we had (also when we entered Chile from Bolivia) a little trouble with that mysterious document called "relacion de pasajeros". For some reason, they don't seem to provide this document at the borders. The Officer said, that we should ask any taxi or bus driver for this document.

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Chile to Peru :

We are french and we have a Chilean car. Maybe some people were lucky and we're able to cross the border in this same situation, but it's legally impossible because the border Chile/Peru don't have the authority to let foreign people pass with a Chilean plate. We weren't able to cross this border and go to the Bolivian border.

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The border is set up good but initially couldn't get the checklist to start the process. Start at the left window, hopefully get a checklist, then work your way right through the windows cancelling/getting your Peru/Chile passport stamp/TIPS, then lastly go through the scanner. Weird thing is the guy at the first window wouldn’t give me a checklist (called “Relacion del Vehiculos y Pasajeros”, it's a simple photocopied checklist on a plain piece of paper but for whatever reason he wouldn't give it to me, even though I was polite and patient. He said it was my responsibility to arrive at the border with it, so he said I had to take a taxi back to Tacna (about 1/2 hr away) and the taxi driver would show me where I could get the form. What, I've never heard of this at any border, I have to provide the form? I was polite, walked away from the window frustrated and confused, a helpful stranger suggested I go back to the window, I did and the same guy then gave me the form. How weird. After that the process went quick and smooth. Talked to another traveller later that day and they did the same thing to her. Vehicle insurance is mandatory in Chile and Argentina, got mine ahead of time from Javier/Dakar Motos that covers all countries in southern SA. Money exchangers were not available at this border.

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Peru to Chile. Less stuff/steps required since Oct 1 when Covid restrictions changed but it was a busy crossing with slow lines and minimal direction. There are two required forms you need to fill out to get through the process. Find them and fill them out. You don’t want to wait in these lines twice. We found no official border staff with them and had to get them from 2 different taxi drivers. One guy asked 5 soles other guy gave for free. I added a couple photos of the forms. First is a form with vehicle, driver and passenger info. Small but has four pages, carbon copies. Just need one per vehicle. Second is the “declaracion jurada” basically for declaring goods on the Chile side. Need one per person. This one is online at the Chilean government website where there is quite a lot of border info. We had 5 different lines/windows to go to followed by vehicle inspection. Basically start at the line on the left and go sequentially to the right.

1. Sanitation: show COVID vaccine certificate, passports, vehicle form-gets stamp
2. Exit stamp Peru: show passport-gets stamp, vehicle form-gets stamp
3. Entry stamp Chile: show passport-stamp and small printed slip of paper given stating number of days allowed, vehicle form-stamp, and declaracion jurada form-stamp
4. Cancel and turn in Peruvian TIP- give back SUNAT temporary import permit, vehicle form-another stamp
5. Get Chilean TIP- show vehicle registration, title, drivers license and vehicle form- final stamp. They hand you another form with carbon copy to fill out near the window and bring back that ends up being your TIP. They did not ask to see SOAT. Not sure if they ever do.
People carrying baggage had to take bags through X-ray scanner. We were able to skip this step, go back to the vehicle and drive up to the lane where they were doing inspection. Check yes on form for declaring food stuffs to avoid fines. Aduana inspector had us take our surfboards in their bags to the X-ray scanner. They had a dog sniff everywhere in the van. Agricultural inspector asked if we had any fruits, veggies or uncooked eggs. I said yes and gave her a small bag with a few items. She looked in our fridge saw milk, cheese, yogurt, lunch meat and a few chicken burgers in the freezer. She didn’t take anything else and didn’t look anywhere else. She also had a dog that sniffed through the van. Whole process took nearly 3 hours mainly because of the long lines. We started too early to buy SOAT at the border, but easily bought it in Arica at the bus terminal- see other listing

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PERU TO CHILE Update Oct 1st, 2022:
There are 2 joind complexes for immigrations and customs. The first one is just for people coming from Chile to Peru. That was where the cafeteria lady was supposed to sell the "declaración de pasajero" forms. But customs agents DON'T allow you to ride there, they divert you to a bypass on the right, that leads to the second joint complex, 1km away. When arriving there, the aduana agents told me sometimes taxi drivers sell the forms. I asked 2 of them, nobody had it. When I was gearing up to ride back to Tacna to purchase the "declaración"forms, another taxi driver arrived and he had those. I got them for 10 soles. Moral of the story: buy the forms in Tacna before heading to the border. They are for sure sold at bus terminals, don't know where else.

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Same issue with not being able to cross as a foreigner owning a Chilean vehicle - you must be a resident of Chile to cross with a Chilean vehicle. Bolivia and Argentina are no problemo. Ive added a translated photo of these regulations shown to me by the aduana guy.

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This location is only for trucks. The border for other vehicles is a little more North. There is one building, Chile->Peru and Peru->Chile.

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Easy crossing today!

Fill out the Chile C19 (health affidavit) online within 48 hours of crossing. Make sure you have your mobility pass (MeVacuno - could take 3-10 days online). Proof of health insurance coverage of covid for $30k is required, though we did not have to present proof.
1) Park in the que and go to Isle 3. Fill out the "Relacion de Pasajeros" - a packet of three identical papers that you need to fill out information for your vehicle. Present your C19, MeVacuno (mobility pass), passport, and "relacion de pasajeros." They will stamp each copy of this packet once you pass the health check.
2) Go to Isle 2 (migracion) for your exit stamp from Peru. They need the "relacion de pasajeros" and passport. They'll stamp your passport and stamp each copy of the packet.
3) Go to Isle 1 for your entrance stamp to Chile. You'll also need a SAG form for your vehicle. This wasn't at Isle 1, it was being distributed by SAG officers (green sweaters) between Isle 1 & 2. Fill out the form with your vehicle info and declare whether or not you have goods. Your passport and "relacion de pajaseros" packet will be stamped.
4) Go to the farthest side of Isle 1 to Vehicle Control. Fill out a new TIP for Chile (it has a carbon copy). Turn in your Peruvian TIP. Present your passport, title/registration, Chile TIP form, and car insurance. I bought mine from hdi.cl. You'll get your packet and Chilean TIP stamped for 90 days.
5) Drive vehicle in between Isle 1& 2 for inspection. Present packet and they'll search for fruit/veg with a dog. Both the officer with the dog and aduana agent will stamp your packet.
6) Drive through last checkpoint and someone will check to see that you have all 7 stamps in your packet. You'll only have 2 copies in the packet at this point (I think Peru exit migrations kept one copy) and here they'll also take a copy. This leaves you with one copy of the packet, and the new TIP.

It was a bit disorganized since we crossed today, the first day the border opened, but the process was relatively easy! All in all it took about an hour and a half.

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We confirm that it's still not possible to cross from Chile to Peru if you don't have a Chilean ID, even with a Chilean car. People were really nice, but they still don't have agrement. So you have to cross to Bolivia, then to Peru.

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I was turned back at the border after driving from Lima . The bike is in my name but...I came in to Peru as a tourist. Because the bike is registered in Peru, it needs a resident or Peruvian to take it across with a Carta Poder from the owner.

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Get your “relacion de pasajeros” form first. Nothing happens without it. Ask straight away to save time. Despite of what officers might say, go to CIT on the left side of the building (standing in front of it coming from Chile). There you will get your import papers for your vehicle. Of course, you need to check out of Chile first. Food check etc was very fast & smooth. We gave up some lemons and could keep everything else. Staff were very friendly and supportive. After you left the border area, you can buy the compulsory SIAT insurance for 10,099 Chilean pesos for a month or 13,000 for 6 months.

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Everything went according to these instructions here - super helpful! One thing about insurance though. I could not buy insurance using the websites provided. It required information I didn’t have having an international vehicle. So I was able to get insurance using soapex.cl instead!

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just wanted to add that the information below is correct however the chilean immigration officer told us we had to buy the form ourside on the street, that sounded dodgy so we asked the security guy just outside the office mentioned below and he said "they ran out inside so you have to buy it off the street" we still thought that was dodgy and asked to go inside, where they gave us the form without an issue and obviously for free.

just don't get tricked is all :)

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They took all ourFROZEN meetproducts and fruits and checked very carefully every drawer.

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For all cars : You have to complete a specific form called "declaración de pasajeros" before doing all the steps with chile and peru.
If you don't have the form just ask them they will show you where you can have it (at the red desk in the middle of the two immigration next to "banco de la nacion").
After is pretty smooth: immigration Chile - immigration peru - Tip chile out - CIT peru for the TIP and then they check your car (no fruits/veggie/cheese....)

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Entered Chile from Peru in about 30 minutes. All as per excellent previous comment and instructions. Be sure to go to referenced cafeteria first. It is on the second floor. Inspection of our camper resulted in confiscation of chicken, pork, onion and potatoes. Inspector was apologetic but we understand the efforts to prevent infection and contamination. Replaced all items, same day, at the huge Jumbo store in mall in Arica.

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The form obtained from the 1st floor cafeteria has to be in duplicate. 1 for the Peru immigration and 2nd for Chile immigration. On the Chile side this form is stamped after your vehicle has been inspected and you hand it in at the exit point of the border control.
At the inspection lanes you need to obtain the affidavit form, 1 for each person. Must tick yes to the question of plant or animal products, even if you're not.
To obtain your TIP you have another form to fill out at the kiosk.
Take all your well earned paperwork back to your vehicle and drive to the inspection lanes.
Our inspector got a colleague to help him. With the amount of lockers we think they both have up. The inspector was so happy to take our 4 eggs and remains of honey. We hid the full honey, potatoes, onions, beetroot, garlic.
Wasn't interested in the freezer contents, gave things a squeeze to make sure they were frozen.
Not interested in our dried food. Specifically asked about fruit and honey.

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Process for changing plates from poder to new owner on USA van at the border.

Whichever way you are coming or going (Peru to Chile or Chile to Peru) you only stop once and do all your paperwork for both countries at the same place. Your car will be in the parking lot and lots of officials around so taking time to screw plates on and off will be way to obvious.
I stopped 1km before the border, unscrewed my plates and stuck them on with double sided adhesive tape.
When we were at the border, I easily tugged the plates off and pasted the new ones in two seconds tops and no one noticed.

The next issue was the initial form we had to fill out. It creates 4 carbon copies that are used at each stage. You need the old plate number on the first 2 copies and the new plate number on the last 2 copies. I folded the last 2 pages back so that the old plate number only copied through the 1st two pages. Then just before getting the Chilean Tip, I added the new plate number. Make sure you have a blue pen for this.

There are 2 windows next to each other - one for canceling Peru TIP and one for applying for Chilean TIP. I needed the poder info for canceling Peru TIP and I needed my new title and info for the Chilean TIP. I pretended I needed the bathroom in between and quickly went back to the car to get the correct papers in order and to add the new plate number onto the carbon copy form.

It's all rather cloak and dagger but its doable!!

They barely checked the cupboards in my campervan and didn't even open the fridge!

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They did their job and took our lentils. Quinoa/Black Pepper/Oregano were questioned but cleared.

The Aduana is under signs which say Control de Vehículos. No blue tarps as previously described.

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Asked for our marriage license since we have passports from different countries. We did mark married on one of the forms, but not sure why it matters. We don’t carry our marriage license, so we just stood there until he let us pass.

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Peru —> Chile
Easy crossing today even though it was a bit busy. Process is still the same- take the stairs up to the cafeteria and pay 5 soles for the vehicle form, fill it out and take it to desks 1-4 and then 5-7. Then go to the vehicle window another row over, and hand over your TIP and get a customs form. Then drive your car into one of the rows to be searched. Very thorough search here- they made us start taking absolutely everything out of the car (including all our food and clothes boxes), but let us stop about halfway through and brought a dog over to check. Definitely no way out fruit and veggies would have got through. Took about 30 mins total- no issues.

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Tried to enter Chile with our Peruvian car (we’re Dutch) but we where denied because it’s not possible to enter with a Peruvian car if you’re not from Peru.
Then the disasters begin, because for everything that’s possible to cross the border you need a RUC number or resident card from Peru to fill in on the documents..
Eventually we have an outcome to cross! We found a Peruvian taxi driver that wanted to help us cross the border. We went to a notaria where the both of us signed a document so he can also drive with the car (poder fuera de registro). After this we went to the border and got to Chile! I don’t know if this works for everyone.. The Chilean aduana said it was no problem for us to drive in Chile. Only require is that the car needs to come back to Peru.

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- Exiting Chile with poder and Us plates from previous owner, entering Peru with our new US plates-

Same process as described in the comments below. Just follow these steps.

In the main building on the left you get one (Free) form per vehicle to fill out personal and vehicle details.
We wrote both (old and new) plate numbers on the form.

After 1. Chile Immigration and 2. Peru Immigration we went to the 3. Chile Aduana.
We exited Chile with the old plates, left a copy of the poder and the Chile import document of the car.
Then we changed plates on the parking lot in front of the building.
We deleted the old plate number on the last carbon copy of the form before going to the 4. CIT office and driving to 5. Peru Aduana. A blue ballpen is very helpful for that. nobody seemed to look at it anyway. They checked our car very soft without a dog and only kept a zucchini. They asked if we have any more food and we said no. They let us pass.
The whole process took just one hour (8:30 am -09:30 am).

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Vehicle queue probably took longest for us, but we made the mistake of going midday on a Tuesday.
1. Park where parking attendant tells you. All people entering Peru must go through the Immigration part. All steps for us were done in big middle building at top of parking lot.
2. Go into middle door. Window on right is bank, window on left is where you can get the form you MUST have. Ask the person at the left window for “relacion de pasajeros” for one auto (or however many vehicles you have - you need one quadruplicate form for each vehicle). Form was free at this window.
3. Fill out top sheet completely. Top left with info about vehicle. Top right with info about driver. Middle section is where you list all passengers in vehicle. (FYI - F. Nac. Stands for Fecha Nacimiento, date of birth).
4. Take form to left front door of building - queue wraps around left side of building. This is Chile Immigration. Wait at the yellow line for a counter number to appear on the sign and go to that counter as a group. First person Gives agent “relacion de pasajeros” form, his/her passport, and PDI slip. Once agent is done with first person the second person replaces first person at window and hands his/her passport and PDI slip. Agent will keep all PDI slips, stamp passports, stamp form, and tear off yellow sheet, but does not keep it.
5. Go to right front door of building for Peru Immigration - queue winds around in front of right side of building. Again, wait at yellow line for counter number. Give agent form and passports. Agent will stamp passports, stamp form, and keep pink copy.
6. Go around to left side of building, and where you queued for Chile Immigration you will see CIT sign and door on left side of building - go in there.
A. Go to right desk (Chile) and hand over form and TVP for car. Agent will stamp form, and keep TVP plus blue copy of “relacion de pasajeros”.
B. Go to left desk (Peru) and wait in line. Give agent form, vehicle title, vehicle registration, and owner passport. At least one document must show license plate number. Agent will input driver and vehicle into computer database, including motor number and chassis number. This agent stamps form but does not keep any copies. Agent prints two copies of Peru temporary import document and owner signs both - agent will then give you one copy. Agent will also remind you that SOAT insurance is mandatory in Peru.
7. Rerun to vehicle and exit parking lot. Drive past kiosk on left side that is no longer in use and up to agents in green vests who will direct you to a diagonal lane to pull into. Exit vehicle and open all doors and hatches. Agent checked fridge very carefully but didn’t take our vegan unopened cheeses. They also checked all drawers in back, out food box, and our one suitcase, but left all backpacks and bags alone. They checked the empty egg cartons but didn’t care about nuts, seeds, honey. They also had us pop the rooftop tent and asked what was in the container on top of the tent. No dog appeared and agents were very nice. Inspection did not take long. Agent stamped “relacion de pasajeros” but gave back both copies.
8. Drive ahead to exit and stop at kiosk on left side - give agent the remaining two sheets of the “relacion de pasajeros” form and agent will give you back the yellow copy and allow you to exit.
9. Purchase SOAT insurance at green building just down the road on the right side. Go into door on right side of the central patio of the U-shaped building. Agent needs vehicle documents, owner passport, and temporary vehicle import document. She asked us what kind of vehicle and we said camioneta - she then asked if it was “cerrada” (closed), or a Pickup. We paid 55 soles ($17.32 USD) for 6 months (we asked for 2, but that is not one of their options. Agent handed us the insurance document in a laminated sleeve and told us to hand it over whenever we are stopped by officials, or to the hospital if we get in a vehicle accident.

And then we were done! Took a while, but wasn’t bad at all, once we figured out where to get the form. It can be confusing because the restaurant is past the checkpoint so it looks like you can’t go there, and we didn’t see any taxi stands 😂.

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Peru to Chile with Chilean plates and French passports :
Everything relatively clear and fast as described except the car inspection, as they brought a dog to sniff everywhere, after we told them we went to Uruguay, Bolivia etc. We told them we had no drugs left unfortunately :-/

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Chile to Peru. Canadian plate. Very confusing border. The worst in 6 months.

1. Go to the Restaurant 'Comedador'. Right side of the big building. Trough the Peruvian Immigration. Just the Detector
2. 1000CLP, 1 US$ or 4 Sol to buy the copys
3. Fill all the 4 form completely.
4. Go to the Chilean Immigration. Middle of the building
5. Peruvian Immigration. Right side of the building.
6. CIT on the left side of the building.
6. Drive with the vehicle to the Aduana and give them the paper. They checked the car very soft. They kept onion but garlic was ok.

Have fun.

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The worst border crossing so far.
1st issue : We were driving an American car with a poder but they wouldn't let us in as they were asking for an Apostilla.
2nd issue : We have a cat and even if the European union website states that we don't need anything except his passport, we were asked for an official document that you have to get from a vet + you have to pay a $80 importation fee.

In the end we had to drive back to Arica (after 3.5 hours spent in between the two borders as our TIP was already cancelled along with our Chilean Visa...)

They checked everything in our van, opened all the doors and searched with a dog.

Probably better to cross through Bolivia.

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Took some carrots (which I purposefully left as easy bait to confiscate) and some honey but then we were the only car in the whole place who got unlucky enough to get scanned afterward. Twice. Found nothing. Stamped our form and we left. Added an extra 10 min only. Whole process by far the most organized of any border from Mexico to Chile. Took 1 hour

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Chili-peru

See other descriptions:
90 min incl long traffic jam at the beginning.
Looks Chaotic, but at the end it is ok.
They took our fruit, vegatable, cheese and meat.

We did not get a pdi paper, when we asked they told us a stamp is ok.

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Easy, as described by others. They brought in two dogs to inspect the car, which ended when they found our cat. Had to throw away veggies and fruit, nothing else, no fines but make sure you declare it on the form beforehand.

Car insurance: buy it online at hdi.cl, look under the option “seguro obligatorio para vehiculos extranjeros”. Easy and fast process. Can’t buy it in person anymore so get it before crossing. Paid $18usd for 3 months for motorhome.

Pets: you can either get a health certificate in Peru and visit the government office (on iOverlander) which costs about $75usd, or just show up at the border like we did and they will call a Chilean vet who will be there in about an hour and give you everything you need for $30usd. Much easier, cheaper and faster

Nowhere to exchange currency so use up soles before you cross, there is a Chilean atm next to the cafeteria.

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We did not pay anything for the form “Relación de pasajero”. Go into the central building. There is a counter of a bank to the right and to the left there is the official counter where you get the form gratis.

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Chile to Peru : 2 French people owning a Chilean van. We passed !
Quite the same process than “wherearedaniandmatt”, except 2 things :
1 - we got our “relation de pasajero” form for free, asking the guys working here (it was in the small office right to the PDI)
2 - like “lessismore.one” said, it was HARD to get the last stamp of Chilean immigration. Problem was they needed a proof of residency in Chile, but we lived in our van... We had a “RUT provisional” form with an address but it was apparently not sufficient... after 20min waiting some miracle happened: they told us to just put the provisional address (Chilean) on the form “titulo de salida temporal de vehiculos”, without asking for proof! Maybe we got lucky, maybe we sympathised a bit with the girl who were blocking us (speaking Spanish, being very patient and nice) ? We don’t really know...
Anyway here is the list of things to have in order to have no problem at this border: Padron, Declaration Jurada, temporary RUT, Certificado de inscription y anotaciones vigentes (less than 72h old), and proof of residency in Chile (?)

Good luck guys! Apparently the rules are quite blurry there ;)

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Going Peru to Chile, the Peruvian officials told us to buy the "relacion de pasajeros" form from the lunchlady in the canteen next to the casino. This seems weird because it's an official document and you will need a lot of stamps on it from both sides. The lunchlady told us she would accept dollars for the form. We gave her $20 and she only gave us change in pesos for $10. When we realized this, she said, "well your $20 bill is so old I'm doing YOU a favor". Haha! Watch your money.

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We didn't pay anything for the "registro de pasajeros" form. We just asked at one of the small cabin that looks like a peaje cabine and got it for free.
They toke our fruits and for the control with dog we had to empty completely the car... Such a nightmare!

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Driving Chile to Peru

1. drive pass the original Chile border and proceed to the Peru border (both processes are in same building now)

2. You need a form called the “Relacion de pasajeros”. To get this form we had to go a restaurant (Comodor) which is located on the right hand side past the main building (see pictures). The form cost 1000 CLP.
This form is simply a joint Chile-Peru form that allows for a streamline way to get across the border. The form has 3 carbon copies attached. Each process takes a copy for their records and you are left with one to keep) In the form provide your driver details, car details and passengers. This form is used for all formalities at the border for immigration and customs for Chile and Peru.
Note that if the restaurant is closed it may be that a taxi driver or another person provides this form. Ask an official who should direct
You in the right way ( see copy of form that you need which you can show them).

Also note on the form the main name at top is the driver and the names listed below on form are the passengers.

2- After completing form go to left hand side of main building to exit Chile passport control. Hand over passport and the PDI (the slip you were given when first entering Chile) They will stamp the form you obtained and keep a carbon copy.
3- go to right hand side of building for Peru passport control - give same form and get a stamp - they keep a carbon copy. They also give you a slip PDI do not loose it you will need it to exit Peru.

4. Proceed to the small drive through looking buildings in front of main building and cancel your Chile TITVP. ( see pictures)

5. Proceed to left hand side around corner of the main building to get your Peru TIP

6. In most cases they will require you to put bags through the Peru scan detector which is on the opposite side of building (right side)

7. Drive vehicle through the Aduana inspection check point (only driver allowed in car at this point).

8. We then collected our bags (after they had been scanned) and drove to the final check point and gave final carbon copy.

Welcome to Peru

9. proceed 100m down road to the SOAT to obtain our compulsory insurance. It cost 9600 CLP. See picture (it was a green building on right hand side).

With the exception of finding the form it was an easy straightforward process and took a little over an hour.

See pictures to help identify buildings!

Good luck!

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The current process is as follows:
If you are leaving Peru and heading to Chile, ALL paperwork (Peru exit and entry to Chile) is now performed on the Chilean side.
1) After parking, go upstairs to the "casino" (it's basically a cafeteria) and buy a "document de vehículos y pasajeros". Yes- officially you must buy this blank form. It costs 5 sols or 500 pesos. Fill it in (vehicle details and passenger details).
2) Peru exit stamp in passport: line up and wait to be called to a window (1 through 6 to exit Peru). You also need to get the form you just filled in stamped.
3) Chile entry stamp in passport: line up and wait to be called to a window (7 through 12 to enter Chile). You also need to get the form you just filled in stamped.
4) vehicle paperwork: on the right side of the building where you got your passport stamped, there are two windows. At the first (Peru), you will provide your TIP and vehicle registration,they will sign and retain the TIP. You will also get the "document de vehículos y pasajeros" form stamped. Next move to the Chilean window right beside and provide registration. We were also asked for the signed border form from the last time we left Chile (which was four months ago). Lastly, collect your final stamp on the "document de vehículos y pasajeros".
5) Get a food declaration form from the SAG people in green or red vests. Fill it in (one for each passenger). Recommend checking yes for animal products, just incase.
6) Drive up and wait for your vehicle inspection. No dogs or scanners for us, though two inspectors did open all doors/ cupboards. Confiscated our dried chickpeas (no fines or paperwork required).
7) as you leave the border complex, you will pass a booth at which you will give your "document de vehículos y pasajeros". They will examine to ensure you got all the necessary stamps.

FYI: there are clean toilets (with soap and toilet roll). The cafe upstairs has coffee/ drinks/ snacks/ lunch. Whole process only took us 30minutes.

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Chile to Peru / with European car

Indeed a very confusing border crossing. Be there as early as possible and you can make it in less than 90 minutes:
1) park your car and look for a taxi driver (!!??!!) and ask him for a form called „particular / empresa de transportes“ It has A5 format and you need 4 carbon copies. Fill the form: owner of car (= conductor), car details and details of passengers traveling with you (eg. friends or family). You pay the taxi driver for the 4 forms (CLP 1000).
2) Get your passport stamped for exit Chile. Here you will get your first stamp on the carbon copies (left side of the middle building)
3) Get your passport stamped for entry Peru. Again you get your carbon copies stamped (right side of the building)
4) Walk to the small booth on the right, where the cars have to pass and return your Chilean car form for „ingresso temporal“. Again some stamps on your carbon copies.
5) Walk to the Peruan Customs to get your „certificado de ingreso temporal“ for the car (around the corner on the left side of the main building).
6) If you are traveling in a regular car with suitcases, you have to walk them trough X-ray, if you declare to be traveling in a „casa rolante“ you can omit this step.
7) Drive to the car checkpoint. They go through your car and take all fruits, eggs and meat if you have some. They also stamp your carbon copies.
8) Drive a few meters further and hand in your remaining carbon copies (you will be handed back the 4th copy for your files).
9) Now drive 100 Meters and buy your SOAT, then pass the last police checkpoint and you and your car are welcomed to Peru.

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Just to add, make sure you check YES on fruit and veggies on the SAG form. You'd be surprised as what they can find in your car. They cant fine you if you selected YES.

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Peru to Chile.

1) dont stop at the Peru side.
2) park next to yellow cones in Chile.
3) go at the casino to buy THAT paper.
4) go do the line.
Welcome to chile.

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Peru to Chile

Go to Chilean side, don't stop at the big 3 story building on the Peru side. Park, go to aisle 1 and just after you pass the booth, there’s a luggage screening room on the left where you get the declaration form. Make sure you check the box for having plant/animal products even if you don't have any. Just in case they do find something they can't fine you if you checked the box.

Go into casino to the second floor buy the document for pasajeros (don't remember the name) from the cafeteria lady for 5 soles and fill it out. Get in line at isla 1. First guy will stamp your passports (exiting Peru and entering Chile) and your pasajeros document and send you to the next window (Police) who will do a few more things and stamp your document.

Then you go to the aduana windows for vehicle control on the left side of isla 1. Go to the Peru window first where they will cancel your Peruvian TIP and stamp your pasajeros document before sending you to the next window for Chile Aduana. There they give you the Chilean TIP to fill out. After all that is squared away you pull up to isla 1 with your rig for inspection.
First the agricultural guys come inspect the vehicle with a dog for fruits and veggies. They stamp your pasajeros document and then the aduana guys (red vests) come over and inspect it before giving their stamp.

After that with all your stamps you're good to go. You'll drive to the exit and give the guy there your pasajeros document with your stamps and then you're home free in Chile!

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Peru to Chile:
Drive direct to the border on the chilean side. There you go to the isla 1. the whole process was window after window ;-)
But you need the Document "Declaracion vehiculo y passajeros", you get that in Tacna (see iOverlander entry) or maybe at the casino at this border, as someone wrote...

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Peru to Chile:

Drive through first checkpoint Santa Tosa and get into one of the orange-coned traffic lanes. Park and leave vehicles.
Isla #1 Immigration man took pity on us when we asked where to get the necessary form and he pulled out a blank one from behind the desk. Start at Isla #1, then paperwork handed to next seat - Chile Immigration. Simply slide over one window. Then around to left side of building. Aduana window #1 cancels Peruvian TIP, get a new form, fill out at next window, Chile Aduana. Get another form for each of you at end of baggage claim (we didn't take any bags up), staff hit us two blank ones, drive up to inspection under canopy. Gave inspector apples left over. Everything else ok after printing out various cooked lunch meats. Inspector cracked one of the hard-boiled cooked eggs.
Five stamps on first form and give to Exit officer and he keeps.
Even with the hassle of backing up into inspection lane took 1& 1/2 hrs.

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Yuk! They let the dog in our van and on the bed and he was licking the fridge.. But he didn't find the limes we were hiding in our pocket :p Time for a fresh corona!

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Peru -> Chile
There are two specialties at this border.
1. As a control slip for the complete border process you need a document beforehand called something like 'relationes vehiculo y passageros'. This document we had to buy at the cash point of the casino/restaurant on the first floor (precisely: one level above the ground level) for 5SOL. You have to fill that document yourself with your car details and information regarding every passenger in your car including driver. Then you can start the border process in line #3. The document will be stamped five times during the border process and collected at the end of the process at the exit gate.
2. The TIP car document is a form that will be provided to you and has to be filled with the car details handwritten. They will then check it against your papers, stamp and sign it. So there is no computer printed TIP document at this border.
Remark: Peruvian and Chilean paperwork for this border crossing are done alltogether in one building.

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Chile > Peru

The most confusing border crossing in our whole trip.... The entry papers from the lunch lady (!!) are in the 'Casino' cafeteria. Of course there are no signs of any kind in the cafeteria about this.

Don't line up with everyone in the buses / taxi line for Immigration - go to 'Auto Particulares'. They will then point you to the Aduana to hand in your Chile TVIP. Then just look lost and ask someone where to get your Peruvian TVIP - the guy at the Peru Aduana booth took us to a random office.

When entering Peru we had all our fruit, vege, cheese and eggs taken off us - not expecting them to be so hardcore, they looked harder than most Chilean Aduana !!

We were sent all over the show to different booths and offices, so not much point writing full details as they will probably change tomorrow !!

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we entered peru from chili with a car from chile and a rut provided to us as foreigners. Although it is a busy crossing and it took a lot of time, all went reasonably well. We did have the padron, crossing with only rhe notary papers seems to have become impossible, also from bolivia (we tried 2 borders there before we went back to chile to get the padron)

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Leaving Peru: Follow road into parking lot on your left (you'll pass an official looking building on your right, keep going). Park outside the 3-story building, enter on the right, wait in line to get your form, fill it out and get back in line to have your passport stamped. Exit parking lot through the control booth and drive to the back of the building. Park and walk to the C.I.T. booth (looks just like the ones you just drive through on the other side). They'll stamp the TIP you got when you entered Peru, tear it in half and give half to you.

Entering Chile:
Park your car in the lines or in a spot to the right. Wait in line and have your passport stamped. Get back in your car and drive to the car check up at the same booths. They checked our car pretty thoroughly and had us take about 4 large bags inside to be scanned. Once cleared, drive through and park at the back of the structure then walk over to the beige portable building for Aduana. They'll process your paperwork. Last, give your pink slip to the official at the gate and enjoy Chile!

Still no money changers, Insurance is required (can be purchased in Arica but we bought ours online). Total time for us took a little under 2 hours because of long lines.

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Taking camper van from Chile to Peru. At Chilean side some confusion as there are roadworks and building works but it only took 1.5 hrs from start to finish. We asked what to do and someone found a helpful English speaking lady who told us. We had got the forms upstairs in the canteen for 1500 cps. (NB we didn't have to join the queue under cover outside for some reason.)Then started at migration downstairs on the right, got vehicle form and personal forms stamped there, drove through to Peru, showing our stamped vehicle form on the way. At the Peruvian side went into building on left, showed passports, form from Chile for vehicle and for each of us, got parts returned (stamped) for later, then on foot to a vehicle cubicle outside for vehicle paper work. Then drove a few metres to customs check where they checked the whole van and stamped our customs form which we handed in about 100 m further on.

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Due to protest of the people working here it took me more than 5 houres to cross the Chili border with my motorcycle. I had to take all my stuff from the motorcycle for inspection.

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Went from Peru to Chile on a Peruvian motorbike registered in my name (German) on Sunday morning. Crossing in less 1 h. No compulsory insurance in Chile and not available in Tacna (only for trucks there) nor at border (only online, see Wiki Overland). Officials helpful. Small SOAT booth on the road after Peruvian border.

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Went from Peru to Chile on a Peruvian motorbike registered in my name (German) on Sunday morning. Crossing in less 1 h. No compulsory insurance in Chile and not available in Tacna (only for trucks there) nor at border (only online, see Wiki Overland). Officials helpful. Small SOAT booth on the road after Peruvian border.

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Chile to Peru. With a Chilean car it's still not possible to cross. It is because you need to have the RUT number of a permanent resident or citizen, not the one they provide foreigners with. We tried adamantly to argue our case (we have already visited Peru with the car, and crossed this border the opposite direction without problem) but he just said 'it's the law'. First border we have ever been denied passage in the 68 countries we've visited. What a joke.

Got foreign plates? You won't have a problem.

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Exiting Peru/entering Chile with a Chilean car. Peru was fast and efficient. We got unlucky on the Chilean some with long lines and a fussy Aduana officer that made us take every single item out of our vehicle and lay it out on the sidewalk for fruit checking (even though we readily offered up everything we had, and have crossed the Chilean border nearly 10 times in the past year). Closest I have ever been to hitting a customs officer! Lol. The border was not well organised, and Chile uses the paper form the Peruvian migracion gives you as proof that you have completed all the steps - so don't forget to get it stamped at each point (Peru: 2 points- migracion and aduana. Chile: 4 points - migracion, SAG, aduana and vehicle documentation booth )

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- Total time: 1h
- Process: Very easy
- There is no money exchange at the border. Only a bank on the Peru side, wich can change US to Soles. There's absolutely nothing to change US to CLP.

From Peru to Chile with a dog:
Very fast crossing, exit Peru is roughly 30mn all together, the only thing is you need to have a paper from a veterinary attesting your dog is healthy and that paper needs to be no more old than 20 days. With that in hands just ask for the dog inspection at the border a guy will come and make you a paper for Chile.

If you have all your papers in hands, entering to chile take no less than 30mn with a dog. Be aware that at this border on the chilean side, they will search for drugs every single cars and vans with dogs, and an agent will search your car for food.

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Be aware that either from Chile to Peru and from Peru to Chile it is NOT ALLOWED to bring FRUIT and VEGETABLES. And be aware that on SUNDAY it is NOT POSSIBLE to buy the obligatory INSURANCE for your vehicle in Peru, as the office is closed. (I have read that at the border is the only place to buy this insurance if you have a foreign vehicle)

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WARNING!! You can NOT cross the border from Chile to Peru with a Chilean vehicle + RUT. You need to be Chilean resident. We tried at the border and at the adouana in the center of Arica but they can do nothing about it. You have to go through Bolivia. They said from Peru to Chile it's not an issue.

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Chile to Peru: park the car, go to the building on the right, first floor in a place called casino you buy for 1000 pesos a paper for the car. Then you get in line, first immigration then aduana. We arrived saturday morning as was crowed but rather efficient.

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exit chile- before getting into the immigration line, go to the right. second floor to cafeteria and get a paper to fill out with car info. then go to immigration. they will stamp this paper (needed for Peru tip). next window is aduana to cancel tip. drive to peru border. at the Peru border. first go to immigration. IF WITH DOG - ask for senasa (behind immigration). they will ask for you Chile export paper and ask you to get your dog. no real exam. the officer will give you a paper to pay 99 soles (cash) at the bank next door. it is also an exchange desk. take the receipt back. the agent will give you an import paper. After, go to CIP Solo window for the tip. BEWARE - poder holders are usually rejected since Peru law says only only the registered owner can drive the car. Agent advises coming m-f during regular office hours so the main boss can authorize the tip.

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They told us on the Chilean side that we didn't need to buy vehicle insurance, but we have since been told that we do need bit and have bought it via Internet Magallanes.cl

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Peru to Chile.
1) Exit Peru, park and enter the large building in front of you. Go to a desk and they will hand you a form to fill in.
Fill in the form and go back to get it AND your passport stamped.
Now go outside and drive to the first control booth who will check you stamps and let you through.
DO NOT DRIVE OFF :)
One more step, drive behind the big building and park. Go to the booth marked Oficina CIT (see photo) where they will stamp the paper you originally got when you entered Peru and your second stamp for your new paperwork.
Finished, drive to the Chile border.

2) Enter Chile.
Very friendly staff, park your car in front of the large booths and wait in line to be called. They will stamp your passport.
Next drive forward into the hashed area for vehicle check. Go into the bag scanner building to collect a form. Declare any food!
Take a bag or two to be scanned, then allow an officer to check inside your vehicle. Receive a stamp and hand in your baggage document.

DONE! VIVA CHILE!
For reference it took me (a poor Spanish speaker) about an hour. Lots of staff speak English so don't be afraid to ask of stuck.
Hope that helps.

As far as I am aware you cannot cross from Chile to Peru here as a foreigner in a Chilean vehicle....if I am wrong please post up!
We instead entered via Bolivia (San pedro de atacama)

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Easy crossing.  Customs had no interest in looking through any of my luggage or panniers.  I stamped in through migración, then rode the bike about 20 yards to pick up my TVIP.  Simply filled out a form, and that was that.  They didn't even ask to see the bike title or anything else other than my passport.  No fees.  On my way in 30 minute--would have been five minutes had it not been for the two bus loads of tourists that arrived just before me.

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Longest border crossing of four (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia). 
Direction of Travel: Chile to Peru
DTG: 3 July, 2013; 2pm
Exiting Chile - 10 minutes

Before approaching immigration, go to the second floor of the archway.  In the cafeteria you will buy the TVIP slip from the lunchlady for something like $.50.  Honestly...the lunch lady.  Take it back downstairs to immigration (no separate police point).  After that, slide a few windows down to the Aduana.  Quick and easy, once you see the lunchlady.  But KEEP THE SLIP, as you'll need it to exit the gate of Chile and will need it to enter Peru.
Entering Peru - 1 hour

Drive 100m to the Peru entry point.  Immigration will want to see your passport and the TVIP, along with the immigration entry form.  After that, take the TVIP and paperwork outside to the contracted inspectors (blue shirts, not formal Aduana).  Get inspected.  They only asked me to open my panniers and tank bag.  Nothing thorough.  Get their stamp/signature, and then walk around to the left of the building as you face it to the Aduana station.  They will want title, passport, TVIP, immigration form, and driver's licence (I believe).  Processing will take ten minutes.  They will give you a slip to keep until you exit Peru.  Window of time you can stay is tied to your vehicle, so ask for the max just in case.  This entire process would have taken me less time had I spoken Spanish or known that they wanted my TVIP from Chile.  

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