Frequently asked questions

Providers apply and are reviewed by a person — access is by verification only, and review takes up to three business days. Agents start free, self-serve. Both begin the same way: tell us about your practice.

Three steps: complete your company profile, choose payment, then our team reviews your application. Identity verification runs through Stripe and takes a few minutes. You get network access and onboarding only once approved. If we decline your application, any prepaid fee is fully refunded. The application itself runs in five stages: basic info, identity verification, company details, references, and tariff selection and payment.

Onboarding with the community manager — goals, jurisdictional focus, your welcome post — then forum access and your first personal introductions.

We keep the network balanced across jurisdictions and practice areas rather than filling a territory with interchangeable firms — where coverage is already strong, access runs through a waiting list. That balance is the point: an agent brings a case to the network because the provider they reach is the right one for it.

No. Solo agents go through identity verification only — no company review.

Identity verification, yes. It takes a few minutes at sign-up.

If you only pass cases on and never take cross-border work yourself, the agent side is enough. If you practise, join as a provider — it covers both directions: you respond to cases in your jurisdictions, and on any provider plan you can still post your own clients' out-of-scope cases for the network to pick up. Provider membership also carries the part of the network that isn't on the platform: the Telegram forum, personal introductions and the monthly online meetings, with access on every seat. The forum is providers only.

A vetted professional network for the global mobility industry, operating since 2023. Members are 100+ verified firms; between them the network covers 50+ jurisdictions. Membership includes Circle Deals, the network's platform for structured requests and tracked deals.

Two sides. Providers are the firms delivering the work — immigration, investment migration, visas, corporate services, tax and finance, support services. Agents are advisors and brokers who bring their clients' cases to the network. Every member is verified before access.

Through partnerships and referrals between members: a colleague in another jurisdiction refers a case in yours, agents bring cases to providers, and your own out-of-scope enquiries become referrals with a fee. Circle takes no part in deals and no percentage of them — we earn on membership only.

Circle isn't a lead-generation service. We don't sell leads or promise client volume, and we take 0% of your deals. What reaches you depends on your jurisdictions, your profile, and how active you are in the network. Our job is to keep the membership verified and to give every deal a clear path from first contact to closed payment.

Every provider gets access to Circle's private Telegram forum — a members-only space for the verified network. It's where members raise cross-border questions, compare notes on jurisdictions and cases, flag work they're looking to place, and get to know the people they'll be referring deals to. Access is providers only. Access attaches to each seat on your membership, not to one account holder. Every colleague you add is another person inside the network's knowledge flow — the forum, Circle Deals and the monthly online meetings.

From members' own case work. Circle is 100+ verified firms practising across 50+ jurisdictions since 2023, so when a rule changes, someone in the network is already working under it — and says so in the forum threads and at the monthly online meetings.

Yes — Circle runs monthly online meetings, and providers have access to all of them. Beyond attending, providers can take a speaking slot to present their practice and programmes to the network as part of the schedule. When you do, we'll usually feature that content afterwards — a bit of extra visibility on top of the session itself.

Yes — Circle runs monthly online meetings, and agents have access to them. It's a direct way to get to know the verified providers you'll be placing cases with, beyond the deal itself.

Publish the request anyway — it reaches the whole network, and a provider with adjacent expertise may take it. Circle adds new jurisdictions in response to demand, so what isn't covered today often is soon after.

The feed of open requests inside Circle Deals. Members publish structured client requests; providers respond with offers on the requests that fit their jurisdictions. Every request, offer and deal sits between named, verified members.

Yes — when a case needs something you don't cover yourself (another jurisdiction, or a different service line), you post a request and verified members respond. Unlimited on every provider plan.

Directly between the parties. Circle does not participate in deals and does not charge commission.

On a commission deal, the provider pays you a referral commission on the agreed terms after the client pays. On white-label, you bill the client and pay the provider for the service.

Yes — either party can propose a switch between commission and white-label, the other accepts.

The deal's status follows the money. Payments are recorded and confirmed inside the platform, and a fully refunded deal reverts to its earlier state instead of closing as completed, so the record matches what actually happened.

Nothing needs to — Circle takes 0% of your deals, so there is nothing to route around. What keeps members inside is the record: contacts open only once your organisations have a deal together, and every completed deal, confirmed payment and piece of partner feedback stays attached to the member inside the network.

Circle has run cross-border partnerships since 2023, and is now opening membership through its own platform. Providers who join in this first cohort — before the window closes on 31 August — keep their terms for good: entry price locked for as long as membership continues, +2 jurisdictions on any tier, priority placement, and a permanent Early Member badge. After 31 August, new members join at standard terms.

Circle is a vetted network. A free provider tier would dilute the membership and import noise — and every value proposition to agents depends on the absence of random or low-effort providers. Verification and onboarding also carry real cost.

Mainly jurisdiction reach and monthly offers, plus seats. Requests are unlimited on every tier. Specialist Visa or Tax providers get higher jurisdiction bands at every tier.

Access ends at the close of the period you've paid for. To return, you may need to re-apply and complete verification again, at the plan fees in effect at that time. Early Members who let membership lapse also lose their locked price — re-entry is at the current rate.

On Free you're an individual agent — a personal profile, one seat. Core is where you become a company: add your company name and logo, present yourself as part of that company, and start building its reputation and track record. It also lifts you from 5 to 30 requests a month and removes the cap of 5 open deals at once. Team and Group then let you add colleagues as team members.

On a commission deal, the provider pays the agent a referral commission directly, on terms the two parties agree between themselves. Circle takes 0% — no cut of the deal. The only thing you pay Circle is your subscription.

Providers join as verified companies on an annual membership — it reflects a committed, vetted relationship. Agents can start free and pay monthly or annually, scaling up as their deal flow grows.

Agents have one limit: how many requests you send each month. A request is a cross-border case you post into the network for verified providers to respond to. Free covers 5 requests a month and lets you keep up to 5 deals open at once; paid plans lift both. Agents don't have offers at all — an offer is a provider's response to a request.

Providers get unlimited requests on every plan — a request is a case you post into the network when it needs something you don't cover yourself: usually another jurisdiction, sometimes a different service line. What's capped is offers: an offer is your response to a case in Deal Flow, and each plan includes a set number per month (unlimited on Group). Jurisdiction reach is the other thing that grows with the tier.

You can upgrade at any time and the higher limits apply immediately; billing for the new tier starts from the next period. Downgrades take effect at the start of the next period.

Providers with a single service line in Visa Services or Tax & Finance get higher jurisdiction limits, since their work spans more countries within one specialization.

Subscriptions are non-refundable. The one exception is the initial application: if we decline it at review, your payment is refunded in full. Once you're admitted, fees for a paid term are not refunded.

No. A free agent account publishes requests, sends a request to a specific provider, and keeps its partner contacts. What paid plans lift is volume — how many requests you send a month, and how many deals you keep open at once.

Other verified providers can find you through search and open your full profile — the details you've chosen to publish, plus your verification and licences. Agents see far less: until you share an active deal, an agent sees only your avatar and first name. Your full profile and contacts open to them only once a deal is underway.

As little as possible. A request carries the case, not the person — jurisdictions, service line, budget, timeline, citizenship — not your client's name. Identifying details and supporting documents are exchanged directly between the two parties, off the platform.