Is this actually possible for us?

It gives you what you need to decide that yourselves, which is the only way a decision like this holds. Your file sets what going would cost against what staying would cost, on your own numbers, across ten years. It shows which countries you clear on paper and where you fall short. It sizes the issues that could hurt you and dates when each one comes due. We don't hand you a verdict, because a verdict from someone who won't live with the consequences isn't worth much. What you get is the whole picture, laid out plainly enough that you can look at it together and know.

Then the File has done its job, and it is the cheapest way you could have found out. Knowing before you sell the house, move retirement money or sign a lease abroad is worth far more than the price. And often the real answer is “not yet.” You will see exactly what would have to change: the income, the timing, a country you hadn't considered, or one issue that needs fixing first.

Because nearly everything you have read is about someone else. Articles, videos and forums describe averages and other people's moves. The question that matters is how the pieces land on your money, your pensions, your house, your health coverage and your family, all at once. Nobody online can do that part for you. It is the part the File is built around.

You will need them before you act, and the File tells you which ones and what to ask them. But each professional answers the question you bring into the room, by the hour, within their specialty. Most households don't yet know what to ask, so they pay to find out. The File gives you the whole picture first, so the professional hours you do buy are fewer and better aimed.

Weigh it against what it replaces. A few hours with a fee-only planner or a cross-border tax adviser costs about the same and answers one narrow question. A mistake you can't undo, like selling a home in the wrong year or triggering tax on a retirement account, can cost many times that. It is refundable until you start the interview, and if we are late, you get your money back and keep the file.

No. The interview is online, at your own pace, and nobody calls you. That is deliberate. Most people weighing this haven't said it out loud yet, sometimes not even to friends or family. You can work it through privately first. If you want a person later, you can ask for one.

The people preparing and reviewing your file, and nobody else. We do not sell, share or market your information. There is no mailing list, and you won't be chased with a sales pitch.

Yes, and we encourage it. The interview asks about both of you: the work, the pensions, the parents, the grandchildren, the one who isn't sure. Doing it together tends to surface the questions you haven't asked each other yet. The Workbook includes a guide for that conversation.

Most households start that way. One person is ready to look, and the other is worried about what they'll find. The File helps because it replaces two sets of worries with one set of numbers. The case for staying gets a fair hearing, so the person who isn't sure sees those concerns taken seriously, not argued away.

No. It is the most common place to start. The interview shortlists two or three countries that fit what you tell us and sets each one's published requirements against your numbers. If you already have one in mind, say so. If it is one we cover, it will be in your file.

It is the best time. Several of the expensive decisions have to be made well ahead: when to sell, how your retirement money is held, which documents to get now and which to wait on. The File dates each one, so you know what can wait and what can't.

No. Only the country's authorities decide that, and only a licensed lawyer there can advise you on it. Your file sets the published requirements against your numbers, shows where you clear them and where you fall short, and tells you exactly what to confirm.

The readout tells you whether your situation is as complicated as it feels. The File puts your own numbers to it: the costs, the countries, the issues sized and dated, the ten-year model, and a plan to start. One tells you what kind of problem you have. The other works through yours.

A Situation Review is a conversation with Bryan and his team about hiring Quiet Departure to plan and run your move. That work brings professional judgment: how the pieces of your situation collide, and what to do about it. The Departure File is for households doing this work themselves. It lays out your issues and your numbers, and leaves the decisions with you.

About forty minutes for the interview, and your answers save if you stop. Then three tasks that evening. After your file arrives, the sixty-day plan asks for one move a week.

Your first sixty days begin: a launch plan, a weekly note with one move and one thing to cross off, and a check-in at ninety days. If at any point you want a person to look at your situation, you can ask. Nobody will push you to.

The first 20 households are the founders run. You get the File at the founders price in exchange for being first. After November 6, or once the 20 places are gone, the price is $795, and it is not discounted below that. You can cancel for a full refund any time before you start the interview, and if for any reason we don't go ahead, you get every dollar back.