Provider comparisons
Compare Movingto with other residency & golden-visa firms
Comparing Movingto with other residency and golden-visa firms comes down to focus and who does the legal work. Movingto is built for Portugal with in-house lawyers and published fees; Global Citizen Solutions and Henley & Partners cover many more countries on quote-based fees, Get Golden Visa does not publish its fees, and Edge International Lawyers is a full-service Portuguese law firm.
A residency and golden-visa firm is a company that prepares and files residence-permit applications for investors and movers; some are law firms with their own lawyers, others are consultancies.
Movingto is a Portugal-first immigration firm that puts a named, Bar-registered lawyer from its in-house legal team on your case and publishes its fees.
Disclosure:Movingto publishes these pages and is one of the two providers on each. We've kept them factual, cited our sources, and said plainly where the other firm is the stronger choice.
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The comparisons
Movingto, head to head
Global mobility consultancy
Movingto vs Global Citizen Solutions
Global Citizen Solutions is a global mobility consultancy spanning 50+ residency and citizenship programs, including Caribbean citizenship by investment and its own research arm.
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Movingto vs Henley & Partners
Henley & Partners is a global residence-and-citizenship advisory known for the Henley Passport Index and large-scale, high-net-worth investment-migration mandates.
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Movingto vs Get Golden Visa
Get Golden Visa is a multi-program residency and citizenship consultancy that works with a network of local partners across Europe, the Caribbean and beyond.
Read the comparisonPortuguese law firm
Movingto vs Edge International Lawyers
Edge International Lawyers is a licensed Portuguese law firm offering full-service legal work across immigration, real estate and corporate matters.
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Movingto vs other golden-visa firms: who does the legal work
| Firm | Type | Who does the legal work | Service fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movingto | Portugal-first immigration firm | In-house Portuguese lawyers: Ines Cabral Almeida (61676P), David Simoes Fitas (67185P) and Paulo Moura (71517P) | Published; Portugal Golden Visa fund route a flat €6,000 |
| Global Citizen Solutions | Global mobility consultancy (50+ programs, GCS states) | In-house advisers and specialists (GCS states) | Quote-based |
| Henley & Partners | Global investment-migration advisory (60+ options, Henley states) | Works with external specialist advisors (Henley states) | Quote-based |
| Get Golden Visa | Multi-program residency-by-investment consultancy | A network of independent legal professionals (Get Golden Visa states) | Not published |
| Edge International Lawyers | Full-service Portuguese law firm | Its own named lawyers | Quote-based |
Sources: Ordem dos Advogados lawyer register (61676P, 67185P and 71517P listed as active), checked 16 October 2026; AIMA residence-by-investment page (€500,000 fund-route minimum), checked 16 October 2026; AIMA fee table applied from 1 March 2026 (€6,946.30 per applicant at grant), checked 16 October 2026. Competitor details come from each firm's own site, as cited on each comparison page.
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