Golden Visas
EU and EEA residency-by-investment: qualifying investments, minimum physical presence, Schengen implications, and renewal conditions—synthesized for suitability memos and investment-committee decks.
Learn more →Empowering advisors with global mobility and investment migration strategies.
Plan B Residency is the definitive resource for wealth advisors, family offices, and retirement planners to master Golden Visas, Citizenship by Investment, and Residency by Investment.
Research is ungated in Insights. The program matrix and workflow hub ask for a work email so we can send the PDF and route compliance-friendly follow-up.
The Plan B Advantage
Equipping Professionals
Your mandate is comprehensive wealth strategy—liquidity, tax efficiency, succession, and increasingly, jurisdictional optionality. Investment migration sits at the intersection of securities regulation, immigration statute, and cross-border tax. Most firms lack a repeatable framework that satisfies both the CCO and the client who reads headlines on EU program closures.
We equip you with program mechanics, capital stack comparisons, and source-of-funds documentation standards so you can advise within your license and refer execution to qualified immigration investment brokers. The economic outcome your clients optimize for is not IRR on a feeder fund; it is approved residence status, passport issuance, or a durable mobility hedge. Our research is written for CFAs, CFPs, and family-office CIOs—not retail consumers shopping a brochure.
Citizenship by Investment
Caribbean and select global CBI programs: donation versus real asset routes, dependent pricing, OECS due-diligence tiers, and passport visa-free metrics relevant to operating executives.
Learn more →Tax & Wealth Structuring
How second residence and naturalization interact with U.S. worldwide reporting, PFIC analysis, trust situs, and corporate residency—framed as diligence prompts for tax counsel, not substitute legal advice.
Learn more →Elite Broker Network
Introductions to licensed immigration investment intermediaries with track records in your client segment—entrepreneur, trust-funded, or institutional—so filings and government correspondence sit with specialists.
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For Your Practice
Is Plan B right for your practice?
If investment committees are asking about EU program rule changes, or clients are conflating “Golden Visa” with tax residence, you need a documented workflow. Plan B Residency maps Reg BI–aligned discovery, conflict checks on promoter economics, and handoffs to immigration counsel—without your firm underwriting immigration outcomes.
Advisor AssessmentProduction tip: run this as a multi-step Typeform or Jotform to qualify AUM, client base, and timing before offering a calendar link.
Industry-Leading Experts
Our advisory board spans former compliance heads, immigration economists, and multi-jurisdiction tax academics. They review methodology, flag regulatory drift, and keep our language precise enough for general-counsel review.
Meet the BoardWhat advisors say
RIA and family-office partners use our matrices to standardize diligence hours and reduce ad hoc promoter calls.
“We replaced a patchwork of WhatsApp PDFs with Plan B’s Golden Visa comparison grid. Compliance finally saw a single source of truth tied to our Reg BI process.”
“CBI due diligence on trust-sourced gifts was stalling our file. Their source-of-funds checklist aligned with what the broker actually filed—no rework.”
“Tax memos are written for advisor handoff to counsel—not sales. That distinction saved us in a general-counsel review of a Portugal + U.S. dual-status case.”
Perspectives
Latest for advisors
Tax & residence
How a Golden Visa Affects U.S. Tax Residency
Due diligence
CBI Source of Funds Documentation for Trusts
Client Conversations
Framing Plan B Discussions for Fiduciary Committees
Advisor FAQ
Common questions from wealth advisors
Plain-language answers your CCO and tax counsel can extend—not tax or legal advice.
Does a Golden Visa change U.S. tax residency?
Not automatically. A European residence-by-investment card governs immigration stay rights; U.S. tax residence for non-citizens generally follows the substantial presence test and applicable treaty tie-breaker rules. Tax counsel must analyze days in country and filing positions.
What documentation do brokers expect for trust-funded CBI?
Typically the trust instrument, trustee resolutions authorizing the distribution, bank statements along the wire path, and settlor-level source-of-wealth evidence. Narratives must match trust law rather than informal gift language.
How does Reg BI apply to immigration broker referrals?
When referrals involve compensation, securities offerings, or dual roles, broker-dealers must document care, conflicts, costs, and reasonable alternatives consistent with Regulation Best Interest. RIAs apply the Advisers Act fiduciary standard.
Do we custody or manage the underlying Golden Visa investment?
Plan B Residency provides research and introductions; execution sits with licensed immigration investment brokers and client-selected counsel. Your firm defines what falls inside advisory versus referral.
How is Plan B Residency different from program promoters?
Editorial standards exclude pay-to-play rankings; content is written for CFAs, CFPs, and CCOs, with citations suited to compliance review rather than retail conversion funnels.
Who typically uses this resource?
RIAs, broker-dealers, multi-family offices, and retirement practices that need documented workflows for client questions on EU Golden Visas, Caribbean CBI, and cross-border tax escalation.