Hi everyone, first time poster so sorry if my jargon command is poor.

My partner (British) and I (American) are contemplating an arrangement where we would spend summers in the UK and rest of year in California. The visas, healthcare, finances, taxes, I have pretty well figured out at this stage. Same goes for work, which is fully remote for both of us.

The hang up pertains to children, which we want to have in the next three or four years. The vision would be to continue this summers-in-uk cadence into their childhood. To be honest I am just looking to make contact with people who have done this or similar, ideally confirm I am not crazy or discover that I am in fact crazy, and start figuring out the dirty details.

Anyone here who is regularly transatlantic with kids, who I could DM or just chat with here on the thread?

Thanks

How are you sorting the visas? You can't work remotely on a ESTA/VWP and nor can you maintain LPR status long term with 9 months+ per year out of the US.

Edit: wrong way around - I guess this could work with the American on a tourist visa for the summer in the UK and the Brit with a greencard?

Immigration wise we have it sorted. I have settled status in the UK (dual citizen Polish) so indefinite leave to remain with very lax physical presence requirements. She will obtain a spousal visa/green card for the USA.

Likely need to consider healthcare whilst in the UK. Your health plan may or may not cover that, but I don’t think the NHS will if you are not a permanent UK resident. Tax wise it could get very complicated if you are earning income when working in the UK and in the US. The US will tax its citizens/permanent residents on all worldwide income, and for a non resident the UK will still want to tax any UK sourced income which I think will include all income earned whilst physically working in the UK. Although the tax treaty should ensure you do not get double taxed, it can get very complicated, you should look into that.

As an LPR (with a “Green card” you need to be resident in the US. That’s said if you are only going to the UK for summer vacation, so that should not be an issue as it won’t be longe than 6 months and your total days should be fine. Not sure what an ILR requires. Tax wise it could be very expensive… you only get to credit UK tax against your federal and not state or city tax….

dont assume that you can only only be tax resident in 1 place. Read each set of rules separately and and see if you will trigger the requirements. As an LPR you will have to file as resident even if you don’t meet the days…

Not doable from the west coast, but I used to commute to work in London form NYC weekly for almost 3 years. This arrangement was very expensive tax wise… all my credits accrued and expired unused after 10 years, I was probably between 55-60% once both sets of tax’s and NI/SS etc were added together…

Once retired we spent many months in the UK over the following 7 years. We also did one trip with 5 months in Australia and another with 5 months in Canada. We paid for a PPO insurance plan with Blue Cross/Blue Shield that included overseas cover and it was excellent. Before each trip I would go onto their website and make a note of all the in-network hospitals in the places we would be staying.

For a couple of years we kept a car in England and one back in the USA. Our son would drive our car for a few days every month and in England my wife’s sister would take our car out at least once a month to keep the battery good and stop the brakes from seizing up. Our son would check our mail each week as would my sister in England. We had cameras that pointed to our front doors in both places so that while we were away we could monitor the build up of mail etc.