Benefits
Jun 26th 2009, 9:25 pm
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Benefits
Hi I`m thinking of coming to the USA on E2 visa can I still receive child benefits and tax credits as I`m told I'll still be a UK resident?
it`s confusing isn`t it
it`s confusing isn`t it
Jun 26th 2009, 9:48 pm
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Re: Benefits
Don't think you will, because you wouldn't be resident in the UK, unless your living there most of the year...
Jun 26th 2009, 10:25 pm
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Re: Benefits
but I`d be a non resident foreign national in the usa?
Jun 26th 2009, 10:31 pm
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Re: Benefits
What do you mean a "non resident foreign national"? If you were to live in the US you would be resident for tax purposes. You wouldn't be a Permanent Resident, but your immigration status and your tax status are not one and the same.
Since you wouldn't be resident in the UK, you wouldn't be eligible for UK benefits.
Since you wouldn't be resident in the UK, you wouldn't be eligible for UK benefits.
Jun 26th 2009, 10:44 pm
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Re: Benefits
What do you mean a "non resident foreign national"? If you were to live in the US you would be resident for tax purposes. You wouldn't be a Permanent Resident, but your immigration status and your tax status are not one and the same.
Since you wouldn't be resident in the UK, you wouldn't be eligible for UK benefits.
Since you wouldn't be resident in the UK, you wouldn't be eligible for UK benefits.
Jun 26th 2009, 11:26 pm
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Re: Benefits
my child benefit was stopped when i told them we were moving here for a few years.
Jun 28th 2009, 8:07 am
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Re: Benefits
You definitely aren't eligible for any UK based benefits, you have to notify all the requisite people (i.e. tax credits, child benefit etc) before you leave the country and they are supposed to stop them when you leave.
Jun 28th 2009, 3:00 pm
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Re: Benefits
If you leave the UK temp. for 8 weeks or more you will lose CB. Here's the official guidlines.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/need-to-report.htm
You will a resident of the US and not a UK resident.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/need-to-report.htm
You will a resident of the US and not a UK resident.
Last edited by Jerseygirl; Jun 28th 2009 at 3:02 pm.
