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Oh thats a shame. I ended up having to get my traffic convictions for the the WA Police in Australia to prove I had no bad driving history for the last 5 years. Even after that they said it wouldnt be enough. So I just replied in an email that if it wasnt going to help I was changing insurance...

I only had to wait one week to be booked in. I went to the Spring Mega Centre in North Houston. So I was pretty luck there. The drivers here are crazy. Every one seems in a rush or then there are the people that do like 40mph on the Interstate. Lack of indicating, or my pet hate is people...

Mine was at $240 a month when we first got here, by getting our driving records from Australia and Germany we got it down to $180 a month. Crazy still. Thats for one car 2008 Dodge Charger

Apparently Germany and Texas have an agreement. So because they drive on the right hand side of the road over there and everything its just a matter of transferring the license. The good thing is. She had an old German License with her maiden name on in. So she could hand that one in. She then...

I have to admit, it was harder that i though, everything was opposite. I ended up being so far away from the curb but as long as I didn't hit anything I didn't care. I lost marks on my parallel park, but who cares I got my Texas drivers license. My Wife who is from Germany just handed in her...

I also had to do a road test are in Texas. It was pathetic to be honest. It was around the block in a square through 4 stop signs. All right hand turns. no traffic lights, no left turns. But I did have to parallel park. Lasted about 6 minutes. I spent over an hour waiting in the line before i...

Hi all. It has been a while since posting on these forums. Since our move to the US in January we have been very busy settling in and getting everything sorted. Loving it so far. I am hoping that some one can give me some information regarding the Green Card for my Child. My wife and I...

We emailed the Embassy here in Australia and all they did was direct us to a pdf on their website, so we printed it off, I will definitely get another birth Certificate just in case that is no issue and will also get the photos. I am probably just over thinking it and it should be no issues but...

I am the same, I couldn't find anything on photos or anything. Thing is I wont be travelling with my wife and son, so I just want to make sure they ave everything sorted and there is no issues with them getting through the immigration at Dallas. Its the last thing I have to worry about before we...

I have seen this too, and have it printed it out along with some more literature, but I was more worried about all the paperwork we need. I have the Birth Certificate and His Passport and Our Wedding Certificate, along with our green cards. I was just wondering if we needed to supply photos or...

Hi All I know this question has been answered before, probably a few times, but for the life of me I cant find the answer anywhere. My Wife and I are finally in the last month of our move to Houston, TX. In Early January we will be landing for our Permanent move. We activated our Green Cards...

Yeah it was a bit scary that shooting, but I don't let it get to me! My wife went me the article first thing in the morning. We will have a 4 month old when we move so although we don't have school aged children we still want to find a nice peaceful area. Been searching trulia.com a lot to get...

we took ur chest x rays never needed them at POE, when we got back to Aus, we threw them out, we have a CD copy anyways as a backup for when we return, if we need them

@eskimokisses We were kind of in the same boat. We were looking at moving away from Perth, but if we didn't get the green card we were going to move over east Australia. So we could half plan, but not really, as international move is bigger than domestic. Anyways we have our answer now. When...

Waiting is the hardest bit. You don't know what to do with your life. If your pretty certain that you will get accepted then you can start to slowly make small plans. For us we were 50/50. So we couldn't really plan the next few years of our lives until we had he interview. Luckily we were...

Ill add my two or maybe three cents worth here. We decided to move to the U.S. for the main reason of something new. We are young (ish) and only just starting a family. We had a big think about this as we are fortunate enough to have a good stable life here in Australia. Uprooting and moving...

I've really got to do some more research here. Like I said, it would be nice to get health insurance through my employer however I am intending on if I can to be a self employed contractor like I already do here in Australia. Have to work out if the tax benefits for owning a company and doing it...

We are looking at moving to Texas for the first few years, going to have to research a lot more as it hit me pretty hard last night that health insurance could be up to $1000 a month for a family of 3 with still a massive 20% you need to cover

@EmilyW Tell me about it, with a newborn on the way Health Insurance is high on my radar. I saw most plans include everything for kids but adults are not really covered. having to pay 20% minimum if your kid injury themselves in a sports game is going to get costly, even if its a broken arm or leg

So I spent last night (for about an hour) researching Health Insurance. WOW! I didn't realise it was sooooooooo expensive and it didn't cover you 100%. Very confusing with PPO, HMO etc. Going to need to look more into this! I had a read @Britsimon blog and the part regarding health insurance...