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Immigration, real estate, employment & rental law across all 27 EU member states plus neighboring jurisdictions. 582+ indexed legal sources with verifiable citations.

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Understand Foreign Legal Systems Before Consulting a Lawyer

Whether you're an expat navigating residence permits, a tenant fighting unfair rent, or buying property across borders — you deserve clear, citation-backed answers before spending €300/hour on a lawyer.

  • Retrieves from indexed legal texts, not generic training data
  • Citations reference actual law sections (e.g., "§573 BGB", "Article 7 GDPR")
  • 12 languages: EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, NL, PL, RU, HE, KA, HY
Your Question

"My landlord in Berlin wants to raise rent by 15%. Can they do this legally?"

Tool Analysis

Under §558 BGB, rent increases are capped at 15% over 3 years (20% in some areas). Additionally, Berlin has a Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) limiting new rents to 10% above the local reference rent (Mietspiegel)...

What this legal research tool covers

A retrieval-augmented AI system that searches 582+ indexed legal sources. Deep coverage in 10 jurisdictions; baseline coverage across all 27 EU member states.

Immigration & Residence

  • • Residence permits, Blue Card routes, and national work authorization schemes
  • • Digital Nomad Visa, investor-route changes, and national immigration pathways
  • • Country-specific salary thresholds, permit renewals, and long-term residence rules
  • • Family migration, naturalization, and nationality requirements
  • • Administrative procedures and official-source cross-checking
  • • EU free movement, cross-border family rights, and residence coordination
  • • Naturalization requirements across 14 jurisdictions

Real Estate & Rental

  • • Property purchase workflows, title transfer, and notarization requirements
  • • Rental law, deposits, notice periods, and rent-control rules
  • • Property tax, transfer tax, capital gains, and local registration steps
  • • Land-registry concepts and common due-diligence risks
  • • Tenant protections, landlord remedies, and eviction procedures
  • • Tenant rights, security deposits, rent control across jurisdictions

Cross-Border Practical Questions

  • • Transferring money across borders (sanctions, AML, compliance)
  • • Buying property as a non-resident in another European country
  • • Tax implications of selling foreign property
  • • Impact on social benefits, residency, or reporting obligations
  • • Cross-border inheritance and family law
  • • EU free movement for non-EU family members

Employment & Social

  • • Work permit requirements for non-EU nationals
  • • Employment contract basics under national labor law systems
  • • Interaction between property sales and social benefits
  • • Severance, notice, payroll, and mandatory benefit rules
  • • Single-permit and regional processing models where applicable
  • • EU free movement and worker rights

How It Differs from Generic LLM Chat

This legal research tool is a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system, not a generic chatbot. It searches indexed legal texts instead of generating from training data.

Aspect Generic LLM Chat The legal research tool
Source Training data (may be outdated) Indexed knowledge base with specific legal texts
Citations Often fabricated or imprecise References actual law sections (e.g., "§573 BGB")
Focus General knowledge across all topics Specialized in cross-border legal questions
Hallucination High risk for legal details Reduced through retrieval-augmented generation
Jurisdictions Often mixes jurisdictions Explicitly tracks which country's law applies
582+
Legal Sources Indexed
10
Jurisdictions, Full Coverage
12
Languages Supported
27
EU States, Baseline Coverage

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All 27 EU Member States + More

Deep knowledge of local laws, not just generic AI responses. Each jurisdiction has been specifically researched and indexed.

Comprehensive Coverage (6+ documents each)

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Germany

BGB, AufenthG, employment, family, citizenship

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Israel

Property, Law of Return, Aliyah

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Italy

Permesso, rental 4+4, IMU, TFR

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Spain

Digital Nomad Visa, LAU, investor-route repeal

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Netherlands

Kennismigrant, 30% ruling, Box 3

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Austria

MRG rental, Red-White-Red Card

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Belgium

3-region system, Single Permit

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Ireland

Critical Skills, RTB, stamp duty

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France

Code Civil, Loi ALUR, Passeport Talent

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Poland

Blue Card, Karta Polaka, Kodeks Cywilny

Standard Coverage (18 additional EU states)

🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czech Republic 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇬🇷 Greece 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇲🇹 Malta 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇷🇴 Romania 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇸🇪 Sweden

+ 🇪🇺 EU-wide regulations (GDPR, consumer rights, free movement)  |  🇷🇺 Russia (property, tax, currency controls)  |  🇦🇲 Armenia  |  🇬🇪 Georgia

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Who This Is For

Resident moving within Europe

Understanding permits, tenancy rules, work authorization, or social-benefit interactions

Cross-border family or migrant household

Researching residence rights, nationality, family reunification, or cross-border compliance

Property buyer/seller

Learning the purchase process before engaging a notary

International family

Understanding custody jurisdiction or cross-border inheritance

Preparing for a lawyer

Coming with informed questions saves billable hours

HR professional

Quick reference for work permit categories across EU

Boutique law firm

EU-hosted cross-border legal reference for your team — see firm plans

Real Questions, Real Answers

Representative answer formats across EU and cross-border legal scenarios.

Rental law example

“Residential rent increases depend on the governing national regime, notice requirements, and any local caps or indexation rules. A good answer separates the statute, the regional overlay, and the date of the applicable rent index...”

Jurisdiction-aware rental analysis — with local-law distinctions surfaced explicitly

Mobility law example

“For a cross-border employment move, the answer should distinguish EU free movement, national work-permit rules, and any salary threshold or recognition requirement. Time-sensitive figures should always include the relevant year and an official-source caveat...”

Immigration and work-authorization analysis — separating EU law from national law

Property law example

“A foreign-buyer analysis should cover ownership restrictions, mandatory deed formalities, transfer-tax rules, registry steps, and any local planning or due-diligence risk. National purchase rules should be separated from EU-wide consumer or AML overlays...”

Property purchase analysis — from title transfer to tax and registration

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