Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
#17
Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
Point's made. Can we please not hijack the OP's thread? (also discourteous)
#18
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Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
Cape, I don't live there yet, that's 2010.. But lets just say that my linguistics have been long affected after a huge amount of time spent there, travel, and marriage to a USC.
#20
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Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
I dont live in Arizona, but having justmoved over to Virginia and gone through the whole process, hopefully this may be of some use. We went with Geico for insurance, and from speaking with friends we have made here, we didnt get fleeced just because we were Brits! They gave you 60 days (in VA at least) to get your driving licence. We have had to get Virginia licences and had to do all 3 tests (eye sight, written (by way of computer) and on the road skills test), nearly 20 years of driving means nothing apparently, but thats by the by. In VA if you wanted to buy a car with some finance, you need a VA driving licence, bit i am not sure again for AZ.. We did, however, get completely screwed on finance (again 20 years excellent credit in the UK means nothing), but we quickly moved to a credit union so maybe that is something to check with straight away if you are thinking of doing credit. For any down payments it seems they only accept cheques from US bank accounts, and will not take payments by card (but it could be different with different dealers or states).
Anyhoo, i hope this helps you out and gives you some idea of your options - i must say that it does seem to be different dependant on which State you are in, so go to a car dealer and ask them how it works (thats how we started our journey!!!!)
Best of British!
#21
Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
They gave you 60 days (in VA at least) to get your driving licence. We have had to get Virginia licences and had to do all 3 tests (eye sight, written (by way of computer) and on the road skills test), nearly 20 years of driving means nothing apparently, but thats by the by. In VA if you wanted to buy a car with some finance, you need a VA driving licence, bit i am not sure again for AZ..
#25
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Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
I am not sure if any States will do that, WA did at one time, Florida for the duration of your status, but if you have 90 days on the VWP that would probably give you 60 days validity. And then you start again on the next trip.
#26
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Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
http://www.nilc.org/immspbs/DLs/stat...2009-04-27.pdf
#27
Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
The number is decreasing, but is not yet zero. Googling turns up lots of references, but this seems both recent and comprehensive:
http://www.nilc.org/immspbs/DLs/stat...2009-04-27.pdf
http://www.nilc.org/immspbs/DLs/stat...2009-04-27.pdf
#28
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Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
At the very least..............we had to show all sorts of documentation to prove we were who we said we were, and we lived where we said we lived...........the visa itself was not enough, we also needed to have other official documents, hard when you are not from the US but everything has to be US (birth cert, marraige cert etc) but got there in the end. Then we had to use a strangers car, as the law has changed just so we couldnt use our rental car..........thankgod i dont have to do that again.
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Re: Purchasing a car in USA (non resident)
http://mvd.azdot.gov/mvd/formsandpub...rmInfoKey=1410