What it is
A report, not software. When a person moves across borders, several areas of law apply at once: immigration and the right to live and work, tax in both countries, the terms of employment or secondment, and family, inheritance and property. They are usually handled one by one by different advisers. This report puts them together for your case, so you can see how a decision in one area affects the others.
When to use it
Before you accept a posting abroad, relocate a family, or move to a country to invest or live there. Also when your company is moving an executive and wants the personal and corporate sides considered together, or when you are choosing between countries.
How to use it
Tell us who is moving, from where, to where, and what you want to achieve. Please keep personal details general: no passport numbers, dates of birth or identity numbers. We confirm what is included and a fixed fee in writing. You then receive the report in your WLA account.
What you gain
You see the routes open to you, and how immigration, tax, employment and family matters affect each other, before you commit to a move. You avoid solving one problem and creating another, and you can brief your lawyers and tax advisers precisely.
THE SITUATIONAn executive is offered a role in another country. The family would move too. She also owns property at home and wants to know what a move means for her family and her assets.
WITHOUT THE REPORTShe takes advice on the visa, then separately on tax, then separately on the employment contract. Nobody looks at how they fit together. After the move she learns that a choice made for the visa has consequences for tax and for what her family inherits.
WITH THE REPORTOne document sets out the visa and residence routes, how the two countries' tax systems meet, the employment terms to settle, and what the move means for the family, succession and property. She decides with the whole picture and knows which questions need a local lawyer.
Visa and residence routeA legal way to enter, live in and often work in a country, for example through employment, investment or family ties.
Investor migrationRoutes that let a person live in a country because they invest in it.
Tax interfaceHow the tax systems of the country you leave and the country you join apply to the same person at the same time.
SecondmentA temporary posting to work for the same employer, or a group company, in another country.
SuccessionWhat happens to a person's assets after death, including inheritance rules.
Local counselA lawyer qualified in that country. Only they can confirm what the country's law requires for you.
