Amy Short is the Principal of PFIC Help by Golden Visa Direct, a forensic tax exposure diagnostic practice that serves U.S. investors in Portuguese Golden Visa funds and comparable offshore structures. She holds a Series 7 registration with FINRA, is an MS in Taxation candidate, and is a dual U.S. and Portuguese citizen. Her practice investigates across tax, securities, custody, and cross-border operations to map failure points at the boundaries between systems, uncovering structural deficiencies in how foreign funds sell and report to U.S. investors. She does not prepare tax returns or provide legal advice; she provides the forensic analysis that sits upstream of both. As a FINRA-regulated placement agent, she spent years offering Portuguese funds a compliant path into the U.S. market before concluding that the industry’s resistance to U.S. regulatory constraints made the market structurally dangerous for American investors. That resistance was a bellwether for the tax failures plaguing the market today. She now provides independent forensic diagnostics, CPA and counsel briefings, and expert analysis for U.S. investors and their advisors.