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Thank you @SusieQQQ @Britsimon and @MattWatt. I only want to know that I am on the legal side, if stopped by the police. We plan to have a few days in San Franciso, few days around lake Tahoe and another few days somewhere around SF... still undecided. Any good suggestion for a family with 2...

Sure? Sure? Instructions are not very clear as this is an immigrant visa.

I started to wonder if my Aussie Driving License would be valid during our activation trip to California we do in Nov. I see there is a requirement to get local license once we become we residents, but during the trip and on Green card, would there be a problem to rent a car and legally drive?

As we are still undecided how and where to make our POE activation trip, I started to research whether we can enter the States in some of of the smaller airports on Hawaii - Big island, for example... what a surprise when I noticed that the most of listed POEs on CBP website have regular working...

I guessed so and that would be a mess. Say from Nov to end of Dec I would still be in Oz and resident, I owe taxes here, but fin year here ends in June, hence I would report first to IRS and just then to ATO. For the part of 2016 still in Oz a similar mess with reversed chronology of reporting...

Ok, the terminology was initially a bit confusing for me, but I think i get it - I may choose to report my entire year...

Thank you both @Sm1smom and @Britsimon. What does this provision mean "However, an alien who has been present in the United States at any time during a calendar year as a Lawful Permanent Resident may choose to be treated as a resident alien for the entire calendar year."? Again extract from the...

We need to enter the States before December. Still undecided, but we may do a POE trip in late Nov for a week or two and move permanently sometime in 2016. Meanwhile our GCs would be issued probably in Dec. I am a bit confused while reading the IRS instructions...

I did not make myself clear. I am somewhat "independent" observer in the sense that I have been living in Oz for roughy a year and a half, do not own a property here and have no such intention, esp. for Syd or Mel with the current craze. I do not expect anyone to save me here, but with such...

That's a very informative reasoning, Britsimon. Completely agree with it, assuming a free market. The problem is that in Oz (Syd, Mel) the market is screwed - for whatever reason there is just not enough supply and the investments in infrastructure are lagging preventing any prompt improvements...

Hi @arrypottah I did not even know I am about to get such email and only followed the instructions on the website and the general ones from travel.state.gov. By chance I saw this email in my "spam" folder probably a week before the interview. Good that my preparations were aligned to the...

May I further ask if your kids had their respective school year in Oz completed when you moved?... and whether such certificate had any impact at all? I am afraid that I won't be given certificates for the entire year if we request them at the beginning of Nov. Thanks.

@martinskypemartin Thanks for sharing your guidance. I started to feel unprepared... in comparison! :) May be because my kids are still in Y1 and Y2.

Yes, @eskimokisses it is far more complicated with kids :) I will probably move with a job, so may be no much time for vacation once landed, but one never knows. I have understood that new migrants' kids there start with kids the same age. There is some entry testing, but I hope this may only...

Previous good posts just reminded me that we also face such dilemma. We must make POE entry to the States before the end of Nov. Kids are still in primary but we are concerned what would be the best time for us to move for their best integration. Having the 2 countries' school years de-phased...

I remember someone earlier in this thread talking about his validation trip to Honolulu, but can't find it now... We have still not made our minds up on how to make the final move, but one option is of course to make such Hawaii trip first. The point is that I am slightly worried: our documents...

Emily, do you mean HSBC Premier account is needed? If so, quite high requirements. Has anyone tried Citibank for this? Seems they have competitive offering to HSBC.

As a follow-up on my previous posts... my wife's PCC, listing her maiden name by AFP, is due to be delivered today to the Sydney consulate by Express post. There would still be 7 working days left for this month, do you think there is a chance our case to be finalised by the end of June?

Thanks Britsimon, Should I assume that if it happens that we do not satisfy the consulate by the end of the month but in early July, we will have to wait for another month at least (assuming no refusals) so that the requested in July visa numbers for us become available in August? Do the visa #...

Thank you for your valuable feedback all! SusieQQQ, I see they updated these requirements on May-26, until then only people abroad were required to go to AFP, others from NSW were supposed to apply at NSW police and give the US consulate address for delivery. We got ours beginning of May...