QUOTE (navaz @ Dec 23 2007, 04:46 PM) Take a long term approach and start building a credit rating in the US and get a US tax ID nubmer. To build a credit rating -borrow money secured by cash in the bank from a US bank - or try to get a credit card and pay them off quickly
It makes sense to build up a credit rating in the U.S. Here is something really interesting, though. There are virtually no checks on the mortgage application that my wife and I have submitted - no proof of salary, no letters from my employer, no credit score checks, no bank balance checks. It is a wild, new world for us in the U.S. and I am shocked at how easy it is to get our U.S. mortgage!