maggy

we are emigrating to oz may this year and are wandering if we can take our alliance and leicester credit cards with us and pay them from oz. Will we need to have a UK address or can we give them an Oz address. We intend to make all payments via internet banking.

thanks
Maggy

bondipom

I left the cards at my parents address because internet shopping often needs a UK address. If you are here permanently and buying stuff in Australia on your UK CCs you are pissing money up the wall in fees and bad exchange rates. I pay off my UK CCs in full using savings left over in the UK. If I ever transfer money back to the UK it will be in a large lump sum to avoid transaction costs.

It all depends on the payment methods your CC and bank let you use.

AnalOwl

Maggy,

I asked a similar question on here a few days ago and the consensus was that credit card companies are happy to accept an overseas account address.

I still use all my UK cards and accounts (it's easy to manage them online) because I'm not working in Oz yet and so wouldn't be qualify for an Australian card.