Our Fees — What Working With Us Costs

Most CBI sites avoid posting their fees. We post ours, because asking a stranger for $400,000 plus side costs without telling them what we charge for our part is an inversion of how grown-ups make decisions.

These are the fees Viru Consulting W.L.L. quotes for editorial referral and case-coordination work, and the fees that the lawyers we work with quote for the legal pass. Everything is itemised. There are no commissions baked into the property price, fund subscription or bank deposit; those would compromise the editorial line and we don’t take them.

At a glance

Tier	What it covers	Price band (USD)
Eligibility check	Reply to your form within one working day	Free
Pre-engagement review	Two-call conversation, route comparison, written shortlist of the three to five questions to resolve	$750, credited against the next tier if you proceed
Lean file	One route, one investment, one applicant (no spouse or children), document coordination only	$5,000
Mid (typical)	Real-estate or fund route, family of three to five, full coordination including appraisal vetting, conformity certificate chase, residence permit, citizenship file	$10,000
Premium	Complex source-of-funds, multi-jurisdiction tax interaction, two parallel investments, expedited timing requests	$15,000 to $22,000
US E-2 sequencing	Three-year domicile management on top of citizenship — separate engagement, only after citizenship grant	Quoted on review

The bands are not invoices. The actual quote depends on what your file looks like when we open it. We send a fixed-fee letter before any payment moves.

What is in every tier

Whichever tier you sign at, the same items are included.

• Single point of contact for the duration of the file (no rotating juniors).
• A signed engagement letter that names the lawyer of record, the scope, the fee, the milestones and the matters that are out of scope.
• A weekly update for as long as the file is open, even if the update is “still waiting on TKGM”.
• A copy of every document the government receives.
• A handover bundle at the end of the file: every document, every certification, every transmittal, in one indexed folder you can hand to a future advisor without a learning curve.

We do not bill by the hour; the fee is fixed at engagement.

What is not in our fee

Government fees, third-party fees and your investment itself are not in the number we quote. The biggest ones:

• The qualifying investment ($400,000 or $500,000).
• Title deed transfer tax (4% of the SPK appraisal, conventionally split 50/50 with the seller, but negotiable).
• The SPK-licensed appraisal report ($300 to $600 for residential).
• Sworn translations and apostille service ($1,000 to $3,000 for a family of four).
• Government application and biometric fees ($400 to $900 per family).
• Bank FX-conversion charges and the Döviz Alım Belgesi.
• The Turkish lawyer’s own fee for the legal pass — quoted separately.

The cost calculator puts all of this into one estimate for your specific case.

What we do not charge for

These are deliberate. The shape of the editorial guarantee depends on it.

• Commissions from property developers, agencies or sellers. None, ever, and we refuse the invitations.
• Commissions from fund managers for sending subscribers to a particular SPK fund. Same answer.
• Bank referral payments for opening deposit accounts.
• Marketing payments from law firms for being listed on this site.
• Anything that would make our answer to “is this property right for you?” depend on whose property it is.

This is what the about page means by “no inventory to sell”. The trade-off is that we charge a real fee for our editorial and coordination time, because that is the only revenue stream available to us.

When we say no

Sometimes the right answer is that this programme is not the right move for you. The most common cases:

• The investment money is borrowed and the lender would object if they knew.
• The source-of-funds story has gaps that no amount of paperwork can fix.
• The applicant holds a passport that makes the Turkish naturalisation pathway useful for sanctions-evasion purposes; we will not assist with that.
• The applicant is shopping for a citizenship in 90 days and is unwilling to plan around the realistic 6-to-12 month timeline.

In any of those situations we will say so on the first call, refund the pre-engagement review fee, and refer you to the kind of professional you actually need, which may be a tax planner, a different jurisdiction’s lawyer, or a different programme entirely.

How we get paid

Bank transfer in USD or EUR to our UK account, against an invoice issued under the engagement letter. Fifty per cent on engagement, fifty per cent on conformity certificate issuance. Credit-card payment is available for the pre-engagement review fee only.

We do not accept cryptocurrency. We do not accept cash. We do not accept payment from a third party who is not the named applicant without a documented relationship.

How to start

Open the eligibility check, or, if the answers will take more than the form allows, write directly to etc [at] virugroup [dot] company. We reply same-day during the European working week, and within one working day otherwise. If we are slower than that, write again; we have not received the first message.