Posts Tagged ‘emmigration’

Right now I am super busy at work and with planning our wedding, which is in two weeks! Even if there always is someone that reminds you of that whole Greencard thing or asks questions about it, I currently simply have no time to worry about anything besides work and the wedding. Actually this is some kind of a nice change, because in the last weeks I worried like crazy about everything and had crazy nightmares.

Besides stress I luckily do have the best medicine against emmigration worries you can have: my best friend Petra. Petra moved to London three years ago with one suitcase and only a bit of money in her pockets and now is really happy, has a nice life and is some kind of a London girl. Petra always gets me down on earth when my worries get outrageous. She always tells me that if you wanna do this real hard and if you bring a few requirements with you everything will work out fine.

They should only feature people like Petra on those emmigration shows on TV. She didn’t move abroad blue-eyed and didn’t give up when the times were hard. This is what I call a real emmigrant! Sometimes I wish to be more like Petra. She is so open-minded and cool about everything – I sometimes could use a bit of her character to make my life easier and get rid of some things that make it hard for me all the time.

Even if I am not Petra, I right now think that we are on a good way to achieve a happy and good life abroad, too. And the best thing is that even if I will move a thousand miles further away from my best friend, I will always have her by my side – especially when I need some friendly emmigration advice!

For at least the first six months winning a Greencard is like living in a dream cloud! You just can’t stop to dream about how your new life abroad is going to be, how nice you will live (at the beach in our case) and how good the jobs you get may be. But someday you wake up from that dream and hit reality!

I have tried to convince myself that it will be a long and hard road from the beginning. But you just seem to catch yourself hanging by dream clouds. Flo and I are grown up enough to know that we have hard paths in front of us, so right now (six months before our actual moving date) we are doing a lot of research on emmigration and about the US in general.

What scares us the most ist he money part! Not the actual money, because we do have enough to move, but the money and credit card situation in general. As you already may have heard as an american you pay by credit card the most! You pay your rent by credit card you pay your car by credit card and you pay your food by credit card. The only problem about that is: You don’t get a credit card in the US, when you don’t have a credit history! And I guess you can figure out by yourself what that means!

To make it short: Your credit history is a certificate that proves your credit reliability. It is a record (made by Equifax, Transunion and Experian) that states your past usage of your credit card and how fast and constant you paid back your credits. The higher your score (between 300-850), the better is your credit reliability (the so called FICO score).

First thing that may come to your mind is: I do have a credit card in my homeland, so why can’t they just write me a credit history for the US? Well, they just can’t! The only credit card company that does that is American Express. And, oh wonder: No, we don’t use American Express!

Right now we are trying to figure out ways to help us with the credit history problem! I will keep you updated with it! But anyways: If you have some advice, you are more than welcome!