How Movingto gets paid

Movingto is an immigration and fund-comparison platform supported by licensed Portuguese lawyers. Investors can browse the fund directory, use comparison tools, and contact Movingto without paying for access to the public site.

Public enquiries from this site go to Movingto first. We do not introduce visitors directly to fund managers from the public site. Any formal fund-manager coordination happens only after a client engagement, and only when the client asks for that next step.

Movingto may receive referral or commission payments from some fund managers if later client-requested coordination leads to a subscription. Movingto may also earn fees when clients hire our team for Golden Visa legal coordination, application support, or related services.

That commercial reality does not control which funds are verified, how fund data is presented, or the order in which funds appear in the directory.

Where revenue comes from

• Client-paid service fees: fixed fees for Golden Visa legal coordination, application support, NIF and banking coordination, fund subscription paperwork, AIMA filing support, renewals, and citizenship-stage planning where applicable.
• Downstream fund-manager commissions: some fund managers may pay Movingto if client-requested coordination, made after a Movingto client engagement, later results in that client subscribing to the fund.
• Other commercial relationships: Movingto may have referral or service relationships with relevant providers. These relationships are disclosed where relevant and do not override the verification methodology.

Client service fees are quoted upfront before engagement. Fund-manager commission arrangements vary by manager and are not an extra platform fee charged to investors by Movingto.

The commercial firewall

• Verification cannot be bought. A fund receives a Verified badge only if it satisfies the 8-point legal review. A commercial relationship does not change the result.
• US-person status cannot be bought. Whether a fund is shown as reporting US-person acceptance is based on the recorded fund declaration and supporting evidence available to Movingto. Commercial relationships do not change that label, and US-person acceptance remains separate from Verified status.
• Directory ordering is not pay-to-play. Fund listings, filters, and comparison views are not ordered by commission rate or by whether a manager has a commercial relationship with Movingto.
• Fund data is not rewritten to favour a payer. Fees, liquidity terms, regulatory IDs, risk notes, verification status, and document-backed facts are handled through the same data process regardless of commercial relationship.
• Legal review is separate from commercial activity. Portuguese legal review and methodology checks are kept separate from downstream referral economics.
• No investment advice. Movingto helps investors compare information, prepare diligence questions, and coordinate client-requested next steps. It does not recommend that any investor buy a specific fund.

Why the directory and the courses are free

Movingto could pay Google for generic Golden Visa search traffic and land cold visitors on a sales page. Instead, the firm publishes a detailed Golden Visa fund directory, runs educational email sequences, and gives investors tools to compare the market. Serious investors find Movingto through the work itself.

This is a commercial strategy, not charity. The platform is funded through a mix of client-paid services and commercial relationships, including possible downstream commissions from fund managers after client-requested coordination. The point is to disclose that clearly rather than pretend the platform has no economic model.

Why this matters for the investor

• If a platform receives commission but hides it, investors cannot judge the conflict.
• If verification can be bought, the Verified badge becomes marketing rather than methodology.
• If directory ranking is pay-to-play, comparison tools become sales funnels.

Movingto's position is that conflicts should be disclosed and controlled. The differentiator is not "no commissions." It is transparent disclosure plus a lawyer-verified methodology that commercial relationships do not control.

The honest caveats

• Movingto is a business and needs to make money. Free tools and free content exist because some visitors later become clients, and some clients later ask us to coordinate fund-route next steps.
• Movingto only advises on Portuguese residency programs (Golden Visa, D7, D8) and the citizenship pathway that follows. If an investor's situation is genuinely better served by a Spanish, Greek, Maltese, or Caribbean program, Movingto will say so on the call but cannot run that engagement.
• Movingto cannot give US tax advice. The firm coordinates with the client's US tax advisor (or recommends one) but the cross-border tax strategy needs a licensed US CPA or tax attorney. The strategy call will flag the issues; it will not resolve them.

Direct from Dean

I do not think the problem is that commissions exist. Introductions take work, and commercial relationships are normal in this market. The problem is pretending those economics do not exist while asking investors to trust the recommendation.

Movingto exists because investors need a cleaner version of the Golden Visa fund market: transparent commercial disclosure, fund data that is checked against documents, and a verification badge that reflects methodology rather than payment.

This page exists because if Movingto is not willing to publish exactly how it makes money, it has no business asking investors to trust the platform while making a 500k+ decision.