Edwin D'Souza
Brazil · Investor visa, property purchase in Rio
“I was very pleased with the level of service she provided, and am more than happy to recommend her for anyone considering the Brazilian Investment Visa, which I now have.”
Boutique, founder-led immigration & relocation practice
VOA supports talented, creative and driven people as they take their projects across borders. Along the way, many are faced with conflicting advice and unclear information. We help you understand what applies to your situation, prepare your application and guide you all the way through to approval.
How we help
People rarely move for the paperwork. They move for a job, a partner, an investment, a birth. Whatever brings you abroad, we find the right legal route and see it through, under Julia's direct supervision.
Digital nomad, talent, work, family, retiree and investor visas and residence permits across Brazil, France, Spain, Ireland and the UK. We confirm your route, prepare and file your application, and follow it through to decision.
Citizenship by descent and naturalisation: Irish Foreign Birth Registration, British and French citizenship, Brazilian citizenship, and our birth in Brazil programme.
Home-finding with a shortlist of properties and viewings, in person or by video. We put your rental application together, negotiate and review the lease, then handle the landing formalities: tax number, bank account, local registrations. For individuals, families and companies moving talent, with one point of contact throughout.
Five countries we handle in-house, and a network of trusted partners beyond them.
A paid 45-minute video call with Julia, followed by her written verdict and a fixed-fee proposal. Already filed on your own, or facing a refusal? Our Visa Check is designed for exactly that.
We define the scope, the documents and a realistic timeline for your case, and confirm the fee in writing before you sign.
We prepare and check your complete application with lawyers in your destination, coordinate the sworn translations, book the appointments and brief you before each one.
We submit your file, deal directly with the authorities and keep you informed until the decision. After approval, we stay available for six months of aftercare.
Brazil · Investor visa, property purchase in Rio
“I was very pleased with the level of service she provided, and am more than happy to recommend her for anyone considering the Brazilian Investment Visa, which I now have.”
Spain · Family relocation
“Julia is like a turbojet ray of sunshine that makes your move speedy, simple and efficient and who genuinely cares about your success as much as you do.”
Brazil · Digital nomad visa
“She was clear about which documents I needed and found translators for what was needed to be translated. She was very responsive and always updated me on what is going on in every step.”
Ireland · Corporate relocation, home search
“She has been absolutely brilliant; helping us to find just the home we wanted (in a VERY challenging housing market) […] Having Julia ‘on our team’ gave us peace of mind, and made the move ten times easier.”
Brazil · Digital nomad visa
“Julia has been very understanding and responsive to all of my concerns and questions. Best of all, just a few days ago she let me know that my visa was approved!!! She has made such an impact on my life, and allowed me to keep living my dream here in Brazil!!”
Ireland · Stamp 4, family move
“Julia was extremely helpful during our move to Ireland, especially with obtaining Stamp 4 for my husband. […] Her help made everything much easier and less stressful.”
Who we work with
A boutique practice for people whose file deserves senior attention: doctors, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, investors, families and remote professionals. Our clients come from every corner of the world, and each of them is advised as a person, never as a case number.
Researchers, academics, artists, athletes, tech founders and health professionals, including endorsement-grade files such as the UK Global Talent visa and the French Talent card. We build the case, not only the form.
Business, innovation and real-estate investor routes in Brazil, and entrepreneur programmes in Ireland, France and the UK. Tax and investment questions go to specialist partners.
Spouse and family reunification files, digital nomad visas, retirement routes and our birth in Brazil programme, each handled with the same care as our most complex files.
Julia founded VOA Global Mobility in 2019 for people who, like her, have chosen to build their lives beyond the borders they were born in.
She has travelled in more than twenty countries and lived in six of them, among them France, Ireland, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Each move taught her something a file never shows: what a relocation really asks of the person going through it.
With a background in comparative law and private international law, Julia knows that every country comes with its own legal system. So wherever you are headed, VOA works with lawyers who practise in that country every day, and your file is built to hold up under their rules.
She works in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese, and advises clients from all over the world.
VOA exists to take the administrative weight off your move, and to give you a clear plan for the rest of it.
VOA was founded in Ireland in September 2019.
Before taking on her first clients, Julia spent a full year learning the legal and practical machinery of international relocation: visa frameworks, residence pathways, and the unwritten rules that decide whether a file moves forward or sits still. That year of groundwork still sets the standard for every file we prepare.
In March 2020, VOA became a team.
What began as support for individuals quickly outgrew its original scope, less by design than by demand. Clients arrived through word of mouth, each with a different destination, a different profession, a different life to build. Rather than turn them away, we studied each new system until we could run a file through it properly.
Within months we were handling relocations to France, Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom as well as Brazil, which is where our multi-destination practice comes from.
In 2023 we passed 500 cases handled, across visas, residence permits, citizenship and relocation.
Today, VOA handles every side of an international move, legal and practical.
Legal experts, account managers and relocation specialists make up a deliberately small team, extended by trusted partners in each destination. Every part of your relocation is handled by someone who has done it many times before.
Whether your company is moving you or the decision is entirely your own, you deal with one team, accountable for the whole move.
Legal & Executive Assistant
Originally trained as an engineer, Mathieu brought a rigorous, structured approach to his move into law. He now works as a legal assistant, supporting the VOA team on every legal aspect of international relocation.
He has travelled widely and knows first-hand what building a life abroad involves. Based in Paris, he is the person most clients speak to day to day, whether the question is legal or simply practical.
He works in French and English, and follows each file until the move is complete.
Fixed fees, agreed in writing before you sign. We do not count the hours or charge for every extra exchange: when a file asks more of us than expected, we see it through.
We work with clients of many nationalities, and our team has spent long years living between cultures. Our advice adapts to who you are, where you come from and what this move means to you.
We file only when a case is ready, and we tell you plainly when it is not. Our approval rate since 2020 reflects it.
Our mission
A relocation is rarely just a change of address. We take on its legal and logistical side, so that you can give your attention to everything else.
Whether you are taking a new job, building a company across borders or moving a family, the work on our side is the same: get the file right, and get it through.
For many of our clients, moving abroad has been a long time coming. Yet, I’ve rarely met someone who felt entirely ready. I believe readiness starts with a decision. Once you’ve made yours, we’ll guide you through everything that follows.
We do not publish a price list, because every case is scoped individually: the route, the number of applicants and the documents involved all change the work. After the initial consultation, you receive a written fixed-fee proposal, and the consultation fee is deducted if you then instruct us.
You speak with Julia for 45 minutes, by video. She reviews your situation, confirms the route that fits and points out the risks. You then receive her written verdict and our proposal, so you can decide with the full picture in hand.
The Visa Check is for people who are handling, or have handled, their application themselves. We audit a file you have prepared before you submit it, analyse a refusal and set the strategy for a new application, or draft and file your response to a request for further evidence (an exigência in Brazil).
It depends on the destination and the route. Some residence applications can be filed while you are already in the country, others must go through a consulate in your country of residence before you travel. We confirm which applies to you during the consultation, before you book any flight.
From a few weeks to several months, depending on the route, the destination and how quickly your documents can be gathered, apostilled and translated. Your proposal includes a written timeline estimate. We take on a limited number of cases each month, so it pays to plan ahead.
Your fee covers your file as agreed, including the unexpected: another request from the authorities, an appointment that slips, a step that takes longer than it should. We do not count the hours. Should your plans change and the work move well beyond what we agreed together, we will discuss it with you openly before going further.
Julia supervises every case, and one specialist handles yours from start to finish, as your single point of contact.
Yes. Home-finding and the first local formalities can be part of your engagement in every destination we cover.
It is the share of the applications we have filed since 2020 that were approved. We only file when a case meets the requirements, and when it does not, we say so at the consultation.
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Your documents, appointments and correspondence with the authorities are handled in the local language, and everything is explained to you in yours.
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