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Forum: France
Mar 21st 2021, 9:47 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 891
Posted By potfish

Re: Digging up if I have an old French pension

That's the same problem I have. I can't connect to the AGIRC-ARRCO site without FranceConnect, so I will need to summon up the courage to contact them another way. But the L'Assurance Retraite site...
Forum: France
Mar 17th 2021, 2:15 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 891
Posted By potfish

Re: Digging up if I have an old French pension

I successfully registered on L'Assurance Retraite. During sign-up they were happy to take my US address and so on. I can see my relevé de carrière showing 20 trimestres for the years I was there. All...
Forum: France
Mar 17th 2021, 1:44 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 891
Posted By potfish

Re: Digging up if I have an old French pension

Thanks for the pointers. I should have mentioned in my original post that I did work ~15 years in the UK before moving to the US, so that should hopefully allow me to qualify for some things in...
Forum: France
Mar 16th 2021, 5:14 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 891
Posted By potfish

Digging up if I have an old French pension

Hi

I am a UK citizen now naturalised in the US, but spent a few years working in France from 2001-2005. I've been trying to find out what old pensions are knocking around from my former countries....
Forum: USA
Mar 15th 2021, 2:40 am
Replies: 2
Views: 859
Posted By potfish

Re: Sanity check my plans for voluntary NICs please

Thank you very much for the quick reply. You make a very good point about the risk of the rules changing in the next 16 years, I hadn't thought of that and it was exactly the reason I posted the...
Forum: USA
Mar 14th 2021, 4:11 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 859
Posted By potfish

Sanity check my plans for voluntary NICs please

My situation:
UK citizen moved to US in 2011, immediately prior to which I was working in the UK for 4 continuous years. (some breaks before that)
From the UK Government Gateway, I have 20 years of...
Forum: USA
Feb 22nd 2018, 3:58 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

To close the loop, I ended up asking HL to assign my UK-resident mother as beneficiary instead of me. I truly believe that my father would have assigned his beneficiaries differently if he'd known...
Forum: USA
Dec 27th 2017, 3:03 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

As an update to my original inquiry I am still lost here.

HL is saying that they cannot do anything with the funds as they are in my father's name. They say the only way they can pass it on to me...
Forum: USA
Nov 28th 2017, 1:18 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

That is definitely worth a try, thank you.
Forum: USA
Nov 28th 2017, 12:38 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

Sounds good, only Hargreaves Lansdown seem to want to pay out the lump sum only. Was looking for ways to persuade them to transfer it out, keeping it as a SIPP.
Forum: USA
Nov 28th 2017, 10:34 am
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

Now that paperwork is progressing I finally got round to calling my father's SIPP provider - Hargreaves Lansdown - and they are saying they won't do business with a US resident and the only option to...
Forum: USA
Oct 27th 2017, 4:03 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

Got it, thank you.
Forum: USA
Oct 26th 2017, 3:08 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Re: Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

Thanks for the response. So is it correct to say that if I keep the money in a SIPP there's no tax to pay anywhere, until one day in the future I start to draw from it?

I'll PM you for the...
Forum: USA
Oct 24th 2017, 9:32 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 5,157
Posted By potfish

Tax questions from US taxpayer beneficiary of UK SIPP

Hi

I’m a UK citizen living in the US since 2011. My father (UK citizen and resident) recently passed away. He had named me as one of the beneficiaries of his SIPP. He had passed his 75th birthday...
Forum: USA
Nov 22nd 2011, 4:59 am
Replies: 52
Views: 10,762
Posted By potfish

Re: iPhone - what sim in USA?

Check out H2O Wireless. Unlimited calls and data for $60 per month, no contract. We found it a little hard to find top-ups - Best Buy had the SIM cards and some top-ups but not the $60 ones, but you...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Aug 19th 2011, 9:37 am
Replies: 26
Views: 2,667
Posted By potfish

Re: *Must* I use my CR-1 immigrant visa first time?

I am pleased to have triggered such an interesting debate! I am partly sorry I won't be able to give a concrete answer to the question of whether the immigrant may travel ahead of the sponsor because...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Aug 18th 2011, 12:06 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,667
Posted By potfish

Re: *Must* I use my CR-1 immigrant visa first time?

I just received a response:


Actually, my wife should be travelling with me on this trip now, so I'll take the do-not-open envelope and if there's a problem entering under VWP we'll just...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Aug 11th 2011, 9:50 am
Replies: 26
Views: 2,667
Posted By potfish

Re: *Must* I use my CR-1 immigrant visa first time?

From the ESTA website:



Seems to suggest that I should be able to travel on my ESTA rather than my CR-1. I have emailed them to ask for my specific circumstances and I'll update here if I...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Aug 10th 2011, 5:10 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,667
Posted By potfish

Re: *Must* I use my CR-1 immigrant visa first time?

I can see why rpjs decided not to risk it!
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Aug 10th 2011, 4:57 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,667
Posted By potfish

Re: *Must* I use my CR-1 immigrant visa first time?

Thanks for the responses. I'm not keen on flying all that way with a greater than normal risk of being turned back, so I'll try calling the premium rate helpline to see if they know. I'll wait and...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Aug 10th 2011, 1:12 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 2,667
Posted By potfish

*Must* I use my CR-1 immigrant visa first time?

I am the proud holder of a CR-1 immigrant visa via marriage to a US citizen. It was issued in June and we plan to move over in November (my wife and I currently live in the UK), but my company might...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Jun 19th 2011, 5:27 pm
Replies: 337
Views: 29,334
Posted By potfish

Re: Any I-130 DCF September/ October filers ?

Happy! Yes, but...

Friday morning I got a phone call from the US embassy saying there's a problem... my passport doesn't have any blank pages! That's not true, it does have a few but only single...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Jun 16th 2011, 9:28 pm
Replies: 337
Views: 29,334
Posted By potfish

Re: Any I-130 DCF September/ October filers ?

We are approved! :thumbsup:

Interview time was 9am, we were there at around 8:20 having stored our stuff at Gould (£3 for a bag and £3 for phone, phone can't be in a bag) and got photos, and it...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Jun 15th 2011, 8:20 am
Replies: 337
Views: 29,334
Posted By potfish

Re: Any I-130 DCF September/ October filers ?

Firstly I used the expensive consulate number where they said they hadn't received anything from USCIS, so they gave me the number of the USCIS in London (which I don't still have I'm afraid) and...
Forum: Marriage Based Visas
Jun 4th 2011, 8:55 am
Replies: 337
Views: 29,334
Posted By potfish

Re: Any I-130 DCF September/ October filers ?

As others have said, there isn't a norm, but the impression I get is that the month from sending the RFE to getting the approval is at the upper end of the scale, having seen some others pass this...
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