Moving to the US - advice needed
May 4th 2016, 11:19 am
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Moving to the US - advice needed
Hi all - My partner has been asked to move to New York with his job. I am a little concerned as we have two daughters aged 16 and 14. The 16 year old is scheduled to begin A levels in September and my youngest begins GCSE'S. I am worried about the transition to the US system. Secondly, my youngest daughter is seen regularly by a medical team here- in 2011 she was diagnosed with bone cancer and thankfully is now in remission but is still monitored regularly. And advice or guidance please?
May 4th 2016, 11:45 am
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Re: Moving to the US - advice needed
Hello and welcome to the forum. I've shifted your post to the US section. I'm sure the good folks resident in US can advise you.
May 4th 2016, 11:57 am
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Thank you - I'm new to the forum so will eventually get use to how it works xx
May 4th 2016, 12:05 pm
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Re: Moving to the US - advice needed
Hi, welcome to the forum. Have a read of this education thread from last week, which covers a lot of the educational issues of moving teens: http://britishexpats.com/forum/usa-5...cation-876706/
The US no longer allows pre-existing conditions to be excluded from health insurance or priced into the premiums, so your daughter will be covered. How much you have to pay towards the insurance will spend on your employer, but it's sensible to budget around $500 a month per person towards healthcare if you know that family members are likely to be visiting doctors regularly (plans wither have high premiums and low deductibles, or vice versa, but it all works out roughly the same if you're going to be using it a fair bit).
The US no longer allows pre-existing conditions to be excluded from health insurance or priced into the premiums, so your daughter will be covered. How much you have to pay towards the insurance will spend on your employer, but it's sensible to budget around $500 a month per person towards healthcare if you know that family members are likely to be visiting doctors regularly (plans wither have high premiums and low deductibles, or vice versa, but it all works out roughly the same if you're going to be using it a fair bit).
May 4th 2016, 12:46 pm
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Medically I don't think you will have any issues with accessing the care and follow ups you need for your daughter. You just need to find out what your medical insurance requires in terms of accessing a specialist - you may need your normal family doctor to give you a referral, but I'm sure that won't be an issue once you explain the situation. I would do your own research on specialists that you might want to use and make sure they're in network, and (I'm assuming she has scans and bloodwork) find out what your insurance needs you to do before she has those, they may require that you get them preapproved. It will just be a matter of understanding their small print and making sure you follow their rules. There should be no issues with her being covered under your insurance though.
School wise, you will need to make sure that your 16-year old's school accepts her GCSEs as 'credit' towards her GPA, as her classmates will have already started accruing credit towards that. She may have to do some catching up in subjects she's unfamiliar with - for example, US history. You will also need to start thinking about college for her and plan how you will fund it - will she go to a UK university or study in the US? She may have to pay international student fees.
The biggest issue I can foresee is that you mention your 'partner'. Are you not married? If not you will not be able to obtain a spouse visa to move with him.
School wise, you will need to make sure that your 16-year old's school accepts her GCSEs as 'credit' towards her GPA, as her classmates will have already started accruing credit towards that. She may have to do some catching up in subjects she's unfamiliar with - for example, US history. You will also need to start thinking about college for her and plan how you will fund it - will she go to a UK university or study in the US? She may have to pay international student fees.
The biggest issue I can foresee is that you mention your 'partner'. Are you not married? If not you will not be able to obtain a spouse visa to move with him.
May 4th 2016, 1:40 pm
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We are not married - could that be s problem too?
May 4th 2016, 1:49 pm
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Yes. It means that you are not eligible for a derivative visa. Is marriage not an option? That would make everything far, far simpler for you and the children. By the way, you did say that the children are yours and your partner's, I recall -- if not that is another hurdle.
May 4th 2016, 1:55 pm
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We have been together 24 years and the children are ours together just never got around to getting married!!
May 4th 2016, 2:03 pm
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LOL -- who has the time! But seriously, in terms of moving to the US, life would be a great deal simpler for the whole family if you whip off a quickie at the register office. You would receive a derivative visa, be eligible to go on his health insurance, and to obtain permission to work.
May 4th 2016, 3:25 pm
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New job, for a H1B That won't allow you to work.
Company transfer, L1, would allow you to work with a EAD. Also, it makes it easier to make the case that it is a temporary company assignment, so that if your kid wanted to go to uni in the UK, that you could blag UK rates and not be held to the 3 years resident in the UK for UK rates.
Company transfer, L1, would allow you to work with a EAD. Also, it makes it easier to make the case that it is a temporary company assignment, so that if your kid wanted to go to uni in the UK, that you could blag UK rates and not be held to the 3 years resident in the UK for UK rates.
May 4th 2016, 4:10 pm
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Got to get a hat . . .
