EXOBASIS Knowledge
Understand your options across borders
Clearer decisions about where you live, how you work and what you depend on.
You may be considering a first move, maintaining ties to several countries or looking for one specific answer. These guides explain how residence rights, money, family life and business fit together, and which differences matter to your next decision.
Choose the question that matters to you, or explore how the pieces fit into a personal Plan B.
Responsible: Raphael RechbergerUpdated 15 October 2026
Start with the decision in front of you
A new residence may look promising until you consider a family member's rights. A suitable health policy still needs to connect to available treatment. A company formed abroad needs to fit the activity, people and money moving through it.
Choose the question that affects what you can do next. You can go directly to that subject without first deciding on a complete relocation or emergency plan.
- Prepare your way out: connect the people, rights, resources and decisions needed for a usable alternative.
- Prepare residence rights and documents: understand which permission and evidence fit each person and purpose.
- Protect assets and retain access: distinguish what you own from the money and authority you can use.
- Prepare family life abroad: bring housing, health, care, education and everyday needs together.
- Keep your business and income running: connect the work, responsibilities and access needed across locations or during your absence.
Follow a connection when it changes the decision. A treatment requirement, for example, may narrow the locations worth considering before you start a property search.
Five subjects, with different reasons to begin
Prepare your way out
A second base can give you a choice while you keep the life you have built. Its value depends on the people who can use it, their rights, available money, the receiving arrangements and the work that continues.
The guide separates a temporary refuge, a retained second base, a working base and permanent relocation. It explains how advance preparation changes when you face targeted pressure, repression, war or the loss of essential access, and how to support the household when an interruption has already occurred.
Prepare your way out
Residence rights and documents
A passport, permission to enter, residence, work rights and citizenship do different jobs. The members of one household may not share the same route. Existing rights or a documented family connection may offer a more direct option than a new advertised programme.
These guides connect the rights with the evidence needed to use them. They also examine what must be maintained while you live elsewhere and how the permission fits your intended work and family life. The useful result is a clearer choice of route, not simply another document to collect.
Prepare residence rights and documents
Assets and access
Ownership, available funds and the ability to approve a payment are separate parts of financial freedom. Property or a business interest can be valuable without providing the money needed for an immediate decision. A balance in another country still relies on an accepted account, access and a way to pay the recipient.
The subject connects banking, liquidity, asset structures and representation with the risks that affect them. It helps you distinguish an unavailable login, a provider restriction, capital controls or a claim affecting the asset itself, so an additional structure addresses the right problem.
Protect assets and retain access
Family life abroad
A country needs to work for the people who will live there. Accommodation, school, treatment, care and mobility can make one location suitable and another impractical. The family member with the most specific support needs may determine the best order for the whole move.
The guides connect insurance with access to care and the arrangements that make everyday life possible. A first furnished home and a later long tenancy or purchase can be separate stages, with better information available for the second decision.
Prepare family life abroad
Business and income
The right structure follows the business you actually operate. Incorporation, management, work location, banking and continuing obligations need to make sense together. Registration alone does not explain where the activity takes place or who can run it.
For an existing business, start with the tasks that would stop if you could not answer: client delivery, invoices, payments, decisions and deadlines. The guides connect those tasks to informed substitutes, working access and accepted authority. Business continuity is useful in its own right, whether you are moving, travelling or preparing for an absence.
Keep your business and income running
Keep control of your information and your ability to act
Two accounts can share the same recovery phone. A separate public profile can be connected through contact syncing or a personal sharing link. An encrypted backup can exist without a usable way to open it elsewhere.
These are different problems. Reducing public exposure, keeping roles apart and continuing after an interruption require different choices. Encryption protects content under its conditions; it does not automatically remove metadata, account links or dependence on a provider.
A practical way to begin is to follow one important task. If you need to contact a family member, use a file or approve a payment, which devices, accounts, keys and people are involved? If both the main and backup route require the same missing item, that is the connection to change.
The phone, SIM and email guide develops the recovery question, including distinct identity-service situations. A family emergency binder connects the documents, responsibilities and access instructions. Reaching a file or account is different from being authorised to act for its owner. A shared password does not establish the required authority.
Knowledge, a personal plan and practical support
A guide should help you make progress before you buy anything. When several options could fit, the additional value of personal work is the comparison for your own circumstances: which route is suitable, why and what it would take to use it.
A personally prepared expert plan turns that assessment into a usable sequence. Our specialists compare the options for your circumstances and work through the requirements, costs and next steps. You receive a reasoned recommendation you can act on, whether you continue the preparation yourself or commission the implementation.
You can also request a task you already understand: document work, residence applications, banking preparation, housing and arrival, or arrangements for family and business. A separate assessment is not a mandatory purchase before a well-defined implementation enquiry.
A property assignment can cover the requirements and location, a search and viewings, organised independent title and purchase review, completion coordination, handover and care while empty. An initial rental can give the household a working base while a longer-term purchase is considered.
EXOBASIS coordinates the assignment and the appropriate specialists. The proposal identifies the work, responsibilities and costs. You can keep your own advisers involved and choose which parts you continue yourself.
Make the next question worth answering
Identify the uncertainty that changes your next move. Is it a right you may already hold, a care arrangement, accessible funds or the person who can keep a business task going? That gives you a clear subject to investigate or place in expert hands.
For a first enquiry, describe the issue briefly and choose an appropriate way for us to reply. Personal threat details, locations, family records and financial documents belong in the suitable protected follow-up, with a clear purpose for sharing them.
If you want help choosing the starting point, the enquiry page explains contact options and the free 20-minute orientation. The call is optional. A specific specialist task can go straight to an enquiry.
Responsible: Raphael Rechberger.