Consulting for families in international transition
Two migrations happen at once. We hold both.
The first is visible — a new address, new institutions, a language to learn or refresh. The second is quieter and lasts longer: the slow rearrangement of relationships, roles, and identity that follows a family into every room of the new house.
At Invaris LLC we consult with families through this passage — usually somewhere between six months and three years — in which the old country is being left in earnest and the new one has not yet become home.
Where we sit
An unusual intersection
Our work sits at an unusual intersection. On one side is the administrative and legal architecture of international relocation: residency, taxation across two jurisdictions, healthcare, education, professional recognition, cross-border estate planning.
On the other side is the human architecture of the same transition — the grandmother who is no longer around the corner, the child who is quietly becoming someone their parents did not entirely intend, the partner who came along and is now looking for a self in a country they did not choose.
We hold both sides, because in our experience they cannot be separated. A family whose paperwork is impeccable but whose relationships are fraying is not a successful relocation. Nor is a family that has emotionally settled into their new life only to discover, three years in, that they filed the wrong exit declaration and now owe a country they no longer live in.
Who we are
A private practice, held to the whole picture
Invaris LLC is a private consulting practice. We work with a limited number of families each year, in English and German, across the corridors we know well — German-speaking Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein) and their most common counterparts, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Gulf states, and select destinations in Asia.
We are not lawyers, tax advisors, or therapists, though we work closely alongside all three. Our role is to hold the whole picture and to ensure that the parts talk to each other — that your tax counsel in Vienna and your estate lawyer in Chicago and your child's new school in Zurich are all pointed at the same version of your family's plan.
Corridors we know well
Who we work with
No house type of client. A house sensibility.
Executives on multi-year assignments who intend to return, or think they do. Families relocating for a partner's career and quietly renegotiating whose career comes first. Entrepreneurs and investors optimising for tax residency and discovering that it has to be lived, not only structured.
Families in motion
Relocating for safety, for love, for a child's education, or for reasons still being worked out. Retirees moving one way while their adult children move another.
Executives & entrepreneurs
Multi-year assignments, tax-residency planning, and the discovery that residency has to be lived, not only structured on paper.
Complex family histories
Second- and third-generation families whose ties across borders are complicated by their own history — and who want the full picture, not a reassuring version of it.
“A family whose paperwork is impeccable but whose relationships are fraying is not a successful relocation.” On why we hold both sides of the transition
What follows
The system, and the loss
Most of the problems we are called in to solve, several years after a move, were relational before they became legal. That is why we take the emotional dimension of a move as seriously as the administrative one.
The System
Residency in more than one sense, exit and entry, professional recognition, the children's education, taxes, and the two-country will.
Read about the system →The Loss
The family that stays behind, the role that no longer fits, the partner who followed, the children who become someone else.
Read about the loss →How we work
Three horizons, one plan
The next ninety days
Irreversible or time-sensitive items — filings with deadlines, structures that must open or close in sequence.
The first year
Where the family's real footing gets built — professional networks, medical continuity, schools that fit these particular children.
Beyond the first year
Succession across jurisdictions, the question of return, and a family's long-term shape held explicitly rather than left to drift.
If it reads as if we take this unusually seriously
That is not accidental. We'd like to hear where your family is in this — there is no charge for the first conversation, and no obligation either way.
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