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Interesting to know. Thanks!

Out of curiosity, why this caveat? I have generally found CBP at pre-clearance (Dublin, specifically) to be more rigorous interviewers, and I’m wondering if this is your reasoning, or if there is something more concrete in CBP policies?

Ah, the fun of trying to navigate DMV websites. I see the 60 days you are referring to on the MN DMV website, but the DL for All fact sheet also contains the attached wording (30 days). So I guess my advice would be to go as soon as you have to documentation required to satisfy conditions. I didn’t see anything specific about SSN (definitely possible I missed it) in the DL for All wording, rather it all seems to be about legal presence. A warning: my experience in WI (admittedly not as liberal as MN) is that if you are eligible for an SSN (eg K1,CR1) you cannot get a DL without one, whereas others who are also here legally but aren’t eligible for SSN can just certify that fact and get the DL. Seems needlessly burdensome on those who are eligible, but those are the rules. Obviously a different state and all, but just trying to illustrate that sometimes the rules aren’t necessarily that intuitive.

Every single case is different. Even if the average wait were only a few months (it’s not), that is no guarantee that your wait will be close to the average. Some people in my AoS cohort waited well over a year, despite the average being well under.

Omg I had no idea. Thanks for this!

There’s a little from this discussion I had about a year ago. Also, perhaps it is different for you as you are self employed, but I applied to make voluntary NICs as an employed person last August. HMRC JUST replied to me this week. Hopefully I’ll get the reply in the mail this side of Christmas.

Pretty sure WEP only applies to benefits paid by the Social Security Administration. So this is not a consideration when comparing NI and 401k.

Ridiculous or not, in immigration terms it is a pretty low hurdle to have to clear.

Possibly a long shot given the sparsity of results when searching this topic on VJ - but is anybody here making voluntary NICs to HMRC? Keen to do so but Form NI38 is a bit confusing - the "Ordinarily Resident" question in particular seems counterintuitive. Would be interested if anybody is doing this and how they went about filling out this form. Cheers!