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Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2021, 6:02 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,577
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Women and Pensions plus government gateway

Consider a call to a real person, I'm sure they will be able to help you get set up. Good luck.
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2021, 5:59 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,577
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Women and Pensions plus government gateway

Yes I definitely messed up, I think it was maybe an 0345 number. Will know better the next time!
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2021, 5:14 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,577
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Women and Pensions plus government gateway

I went through this exact process just a few weeks ago and like you got stuck at the UK address part. I ended up speaking with someone at the National Insurance office back in the UK. They told me it...
Forum: USA
Jun 30th 2021, 9:27 pm
Replies: 758
Views: 226,290
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Class 2 NI abolished. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributio

That's it! On further reading, the Class 3 rate of £15.40 per week x 52 weeks is exactly the £800.80 shortfall I'm seeing on my account. Need to go and read up and understand difference between...
Forum: USA
Jun 29th 2021, 6:24 pm
Replies: 758
Views: 226,290
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Class 2 NI abolished. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributio

Jumping on this thread to get some help. I'm trying to make up my shortfall years with Class 2 voluntary payments. It's telling me my shortfall is £880.80 x 6 yrs and £780 x 1 yr for a total of...
Forum: USA
Jul 10th 2020, 3:51 am
Replies: 15
Views: 6,135
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Best place e to buy British food online?

I like www.britishfooddepot.com, USA based.
Dec 15th 2019, 3:58 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,446
Posted By CA-NY

Re: L-1A to green card

We just got green cards issued this week, L-1A to EB-1C took 17 months total.
Mar 1st 2019, 6:32 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,329
Posted By CA-NY

Re: L1 visa extension

Pretty sure you only need to go to the Embassy if your petition is going to expire as well. So even though the visa was for 3 years, if your PED is for 5 years, you don't need to go to the Embassy. ...
Jan 10th 2019, 11:24 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 925
Posted By CA-NY

Re: i140 premium processing or not

That's what I intended it to mean. It's an application for an immigrant visa. And the category of immigrant visa that she's applying for (not from) determines whether premium processing is available...
Jan 10th 2019, 10:17 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 925
Posted By CA-NY

Re: i140 premium processing or not

But premium processing for an i-140 is dependent on the corresponding visa category.
Jan 10th 2019, 10:02 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 925
Posted By CA-NY

Re: i140 premium processing or not

What category of visa are you applying for? Premium processing is not available for all.
Forum: USA
Nov 22nd 2018, 1:57 am
Replies: 5
Views: 748
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Renewing UK passport

Another one here who just renewed in the past few weeks. I agree it's a very simple process. New and old passports back within 2-3 weeks.
Forum: USA
Nov 15th 2018, 12:35 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,096
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Advice on keeping UK address whilst away

Yes. https://www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/redirection/
Forum: USA
Nov 14th 2018, 6:45 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 2,096
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Advice on keeping UK address whilst away

Also consider that you can only do Royal Mail redirection for a maximum of 12 months.
Nov 2nd 2018, 11:27 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 2,376
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Same Sex partnership visa

No medical required for L visas.
Oct 16th 2018, 3:56 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,647
Posted By CA-NY

Re: GC process update

There's no premium processing available for EB1 so that was just standard. Don't know specifics about medicals yet, we just today got a "courtesy letter" to confirm that I-693s were not included...
Oct 16th 2018, 3:04 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,647
Posted By CA-NY

Re: GC process update

We're going through same at the moment. Going from L1 / L2 to EB1. Here's our current timeline.

July 9 - I-140 submitted to Texas Service Center
July 31 - I-485 submitted, EAD and Travel Card...
Forum: USA
Sep 28th 2018, 7:08 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,603
Posted By CA-NY

Re: USA return to U.K. holiday, visas and insurance?

NHS entitlement is based on being "ordinarily resident" in the UK (not nationality) so none of you are eligible. Obviously in case of an emergency, you'd go to A&E and would be seen but they may ask...
Forum: USA
Aug 24th 2018, 7:22 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 2,312
Posted By CA-NY

Re: School vaccinations- potential problem!

No chest x-rays required for your son?
Forum: USA
Aug 24th 2018, 3:22 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 2,312
Posted By CA-NY

Re: School vaccinations- potential problem!

Not to derail the OPs post but I'm in for fun and games with my GC medical. I have no records of childhood vaccinations at all and can't prove any of them. In my case, vaccinations were not...
Forum: USA
Aug 21st 2018, 7:15 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 10,138
Posted By CA-NY

Re: Best US bank account for British expats?

Another vote for Chase. Have used them since day 1 for checking, savings, investments, credit cards (they gave us a c/c right from the start with a low credit limit to get us up and running) and...
Aug 20th 2018, 6:24 pm
Replies: 134
Views: 26,542
Posted By CA-NY

Re: L-1a to Green Card processing route?

Just wanted to pop on and give an update that our EB1 petition has been approved in 6 weeks!! Receipt date of July 9, approved today. We are completely gobsmacked having been told 8-10 months by...
Aug 11th 2018, 8:22 pm
Replies: 134
Views: 26,542
Posted By CA-NY

Re: L-1a to Green Card processing route?

Can I ask was this recently? Current advice is for L visa holders not to travel while AP is pending or the application will be considered abandoned. L visa holders used to be exempt from this rule...
Aug 11th 2018, 7:14 pm
Replies: 134
Views: 26,542
Posted By CA-NY

Re: L-1a to Green Card processing route?

Yes it's a combined AP/EAD (work authorization) card. No idea if it's issued for a particular length of time, I would assume it's valid until green cards are in hand at which point it becomes...
Aug 11th 2018, 6:42 pm
Replies: 134
Views: 26,542
Posted By CA-NY

Re: L-1a to Green Card processing route?

Our PED is Sep 2019. We were originally advised by our lawyers to wait until the EB-1 was approved (they estimated 8-10 months) before submitting Adjustment of Status (not exactly sure why). But we...
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