... Spoke to a foreign estate planner to get some tax advice regarding US citizen married to non-citizen living abroad. His first response WAs to WAit till citizenship before doing the move because that is one of the most complex IRS issues. To summarize: IRS only gives the non-US citizen living abroad a martial inherence estate tax exemption of $60k on US assets with rest being taxed at 40%. If we were both citizens it's unlimited exemption. He explained WAys around it with types of estate trust, yearly gifting, investment accounts structuring ect ect but plan ...

... The process WAs quick and easy, about 15 minutes, and thanks to being married to an Irish citizen, I did not have to pay the 300Euros fee. I got the G/4 stamp in my passport, good for one year and it allows me to work (though I am a semi-retired professor, I may do some consulting and other odd jobs). The Immigration Officer (who may have been the Garda Sergant, and WAs quite friendly) took my photo and prints from my index fingers and that WAs that. This WAs all quite different than the long, expensive and painful process of getting Mairead her Green card ...

Hello all, As I have mentioned in other posts I have WAnted to move to Ireland for a while and been researching it. My wife has come up with two items she will miss from growing up in California. REAL Mexican food (Hint: mixing corn in doesn't make it Mexican food and soft corn tortillas are real tacos) My offset smoker/BBQ For the first she is working on learning to make tortillas from scratch, and pondering how well I could grow jalapeños and other peppers in a small poly Green house/raised bed. There is also a specialty shop in Dublin that does carry ...

Hi Janey, Thanks for bringing up this topic. It's a very important subject for anyone moving from the US to anywhere in the world. You are correct. Yes, you must file US taxes. All US citizens and Green card holders must file US taxes every year, by law. I don't know what the consequences of not doing that are, but I'm sure they could potentially be severe. I'll ask a couple of US expats, to see if they know more. The US (and some US states) assess your foreign income, and can claim tax money from you. There is a foreign exclusion credit (which I think is in the 95-100k region), but aside from that, your foreign earned income can be taxed in the US. Last year I filed my taxes with a tax service for the first time ever. Having income in 2 countries complicated matters beyond me being able to do the necessary documentation myself with TurboTax (amazon link). I used a service call Taxes for Expats. It's not cheap to have foreign taxes taken care of, but honestly, having the headaches and stress removed made it worth it.

... what worries me, what confuses me and how to go about job hunting 🙂 We are planning a move to Dublin next summer (probably August) and our biggest question right now is how easy it will be for my husband to get a job permit and a job. We are both currently employed but expect that it will be easier for him to get a job in Dublin while it might take longer for me. He is a solutions architect for a telecom company and has over ten years experience. I recently switched careers from nonprofit fundraising to public health. I graduated with a masters of public ...