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12 years, man thats dedication. My wife has been at it 8 years and I thought that was a long time!

Hey don't worry I know we got the easy way. Just saying that there is always a few little things that you forget about. I understand when you say visas can be expensive. My wife needed a partner visa here in Australia when we first lived here together, That cost $3500 from memory to "apply" if...

Th it never seems to stop. It's $165usd per person. All worth it in the end though.

I used my ANZ debit card, not an Issue, but its more like $230 AUD from memory! What an expensive exercise!

I remember when I won last year. My Wife checked hers first and was disappointed again (8 years in a row) then she checked mine while I was making a coffee and was like oh well not to worry! She came back and was like you Won! you got selected! But I was not that excited and was in a rush to get...

WOOHOO!! Just checked the USCIS website and looks like my Green Card has been Created and is on its way! On the downside my Wife's one is still only at the "Accepted" bubble! :(

@james mathers Also, I should elaborate some more. We actually have TWO different mailing addresses. When we applied for the Lottery we used an agency as I mentioned, when we won and filled in our DS-260 we used their address as the place to send the Green Card - They are in New York. Now...

We needed a "Physical Postal Address" to open our bank accounts at BoA. We ended up getting a joint account and a savings account opened. To start with they require a $100 deposit to open the account which we did, plus you need to have $300 for a secured credit card so all up minimum it was $700...

Congrratulation!!! See not as bad as you thought in the end!

It was a little confusing about the SSN I did think the same. But as we were in the U.S. Activating it didn't really apply so I didn't think twice about it. Regarding the bank account. We went through Bank of America. The bank lender we saw was from Jamaica so she knew a lot about getting your...

In regards to getting your SSN sent to Australia. I don't think they will directly send it from the office. We even had issues getting it sent to New York while attempting to apply for it in Florida. (However we have been told that this is lies as it can be done, anyways sending internationally...

We also re entered for DV 2016, I am looking forward t seeing the results, however I will feel a bit sorry if I get selected again and some one misses out.

@SusieQQQ I have also driven different cars over here in aus. Also trucks have indicators on the opposite side. Was just saying that after driving a car for years with indicators on one side. That's the only issue I had driving in the right hand side of the road. :) Thank god I didn't drive...

I was also worried the first time I drove on the right hand side of the road. My first experience was when the father in law gave me his audi in germany packed with his 11 year old daughter and my partner and told me to take them to the skiing resort. Let me remind you that it was german...

We would of loved to been able to just fly one way and move straight away. But everyones situation is different. For us we had to fly over and activate pretty much straight away as my Wife is pregnant and this was the only time we could fly to activate before the 6 months where up. Plus we...

Yep, its a hard decision to make. Leave the House in Aus, or move it all abroad. Thing is we are lucky as we don't actually owe anything on our house. So its a matter if we sell and take the whole lot to US, or keep it and take out another mortgage? We were even thinking of getting another...

This is definitely something we need to look into. We would be in the same situation, the rent would defiantly cover the mortgage. I just worry about tax as stated as from what I can work out you would have to include your Australian income on your US tax return and then again your US income in...

@EmilyW Yeah I do agree, I don't want to go back to the same lifestyle "IF" we return, however I would like Safety Net of a solid investment in Australia. I think its safer than the US market. Could be wrong. Like I said.... lots of research to do yet...

@EmilyW Its a big decision on my end what we are going to do. We are unsure if we want to sell, or rent our house out and keep an investment in Australia as "Backup" just in case things don't work out. (Which I am not counting on anyways) They say don't put all your eggs in on basket. So the...

I have been tracking it the last few months. It would be nice if next year it bounced back up, I don't know if it will get over the $1.00 mark for a while though. Then again I really have no idea regarding economics ha