Use Cases/Expats/Document vault

Every document. Both countries. One current copy.

Permits, certificates, apostilles, translations, account lists. Encrypted in one vault no provider can read or freeze you out of, reachable from anywhere, with delivery built in for the day you cannot reach it yourself.

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residence-permit-2026.pdf
sworn-translation-diploma.pdf
bank-accounts-list.pdf
one current copy · both countries
Encrypted · reachable from any device in any country

Store

Everything, both countries. Any file type, as much as your plan holds.

Update

One current copy. Replace the expired permit, the old policy, the stale account list in seconds.

Deliver

On your condition. A date, your command, a silence you define, or one trusted person's confirmation.

Paperwork that ages on two calendars

You left, but the paperwork never did. Your home country still counts you as a legal subject, and your new country is building a second file on you from scratch. Certified copies, stamped originals, sworn translations, renewals on two calendars. Surveys of expats put it plainly: more than four in ten hit administrative complications in both countries at once, usually because some document quietly went stale. This is not disorganization. It is what running a documented life across two systems does.

Most people solve this by piling copies into a cloud drive. That keeps the files. It does not keep them private from the provider, and it cannot reach anyone for you if you are not there to share them.

Scan the whole drawer

Stamped originals, sworn translations, forty-page visa applications, photos of paper that officials insisted on. The archive of a life in two countries is a mess, and most expats keep it scattered: some in a drive, some in an inbox, some in a folder at the parents' house. Here it is one encrypted place, any file type, as much as your plan's storage holds.

Your documents should not live inside an account you can lose

Cloud drives are good at storage. They are also accounts: scannable by the provider, freezable by an algorithm, recoverable only through a phone number that may belong to a SIM card you canceled two countries ago. Expats hit this constantly, locked out of the account their pension lands in, or flagged for a foreign address.

Vaulternal is built the other way around. Files are encrypted on your device before upload, so there is nothing for a provider to read or act on. And underneath the storage sits the part no drive has: delivery. The same vault that serves you every day is the one that reaches your family if you ever cannot act.

What to keep current

Identity and status

Passports, permits, certificates, with the certified copies and translations that took months to get.

Money in two systems

Account lists, policy numbers, statements that prove what exists and where.

The property you left behind

Deeds, contracts, the paperwork for whatever still stands in your name back home.

This is a ten minute decision

Upload what is in the drawer today. Perfecting the folder structure can wait. The current copy cannot.

Pricing for living abroad

Free to start, no card required. Paid tiers add storage, recipients, and delivery types.

Recommended

Free

Try the vault. Store your most important files. Set one delivery rule.

$0
2GB encrypted storage
1 delivery rule
1 recipient
Time-based delivery
Zero-knowledge encryption
Email support

Starter

For the files and people that matter most. Multiple recipients, real-time family sharing.

$9.00$7.00/month

Billed $84.00/year

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100GB encrypted storage
5 delivery rules
5 recipients per rule
Time, manual & trusted-contact delivery
Zero-knowledge encryption
Email support
Recommended for living abroad

Pro

Everything Vaulternal can do. Unlimited rules, all delivery types, full vault.

$19.00$15.00/month

Billed $180.00/year

Save 21%
1TB encrypted storage
Unlimited delivery rules
Unlimited recipients per rule
All delivery types — time, manual, inactivity, trusted contacts
Zero-knowledge encryption
Priority email support
Zero-Knowledge Architecture
Cancel Anytime

The documents vault works on Starter. Add inactivity delivery with Pro.

Common questions from people living abroad

Current for you. Delivered to them if you ever cannot.

Free to start, no card required. The setup asks for ten minutes, once.