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Advisor success stories
Anonymized engagements illustrating how RIAs and family offices combined our matrices, tax handoff briefs, and broker introductions under live supervisory expectations. Figures rounded; jurisdictional detail generalized where necessary to protect client confidentiality.
Multi-family office · EU Golden Visa
Consolidating three households under one residence strategy
A multi-family office near $400M AUM balanced education placement in Portugal, German operating-company nexus, and U.S. beneficiaries subject to Substantial Presence limits. Promoter decks conflated residency cards with tax residence; the CIO required a single matrix with statutory footnotes before the family council.
Golden Visa matrices isolated fund versus real-asset routes, exit liquidity on secondary market depth where relevant, and Article 15 OECD tie-breaker talking points for the U.S. side. External tax counsel marked up our brief; the vote package included downside scenarios (processing backlog, EUR/USD basis risk).
Outcome: The family selected a Portuguese route with documented downside cases (processing delays, currency exposure). Plan B Residency introduced two brokers; the RIA retained investment discretion and signed off a compliance memo citing our process checklist.
RIA · Caribbean CBI
Speed without shortcuts on source-of-funds
A registered investment adviser’s client needed a second passport for visa-free travel within six months for business development. Prior counsel had stalled over complex gift structures from a parent’s offshore trust.
Our due-diligence module broke the funding path into discrete evidentiary steps. The advisor shared the outline with the client’s immigration attorney, who confirmed the narrative before fees were wired.
Outcome: Approval landed inside the target window; the firm added the engagement letter template from our resources library to its standard cross-border workflow.
Retirement practice · U.S. exit planning
Coordinating RBI with IRA distribution strategy
A couple exploring EU retirement wanted to understand how a Golden Visa interacted with Roth conversions and state residency before they sold a business. The retirement planner needed research that was not product-driven.
Plan B Residency paired program timelines with a tax-counsel worksheet on residency “tie-breaker” concepts. The advisor used our client memo shell to document why a specific jurisdiction fit the couple’s health and travel profile.
Outcome: The clients deferred a rushed donation-based CBI in favor of a route with clearer physical presence rules, avoiding a mismatch with their U.S. tax year planning.
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