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Definition of a Resident. If you become a resident of NYS, you must exchange your driver license and vehicle registration from another state for a NYS driver license and vehicle registration within 30 days. If you have a driver license from another state, you must get a driver license from NYS within 30 days after you become a resident of NYS. If you have a vehicle registration from another state, you must get a vehicle registration from NYS within 30 days after you become a resident of NYS.

Section 250 (5) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law defines the term "resident." The law defines a resident as a person who lives in NYS with the intent to make NYS a "fixed and permanent" place to live. To live in a house, a home, an apartment, a room or other similar place in NYS for 90 days is considered "presumptive evidence" that you are a resident of NYS. A police officer can use this evidence as the reason to issue a traffic ticket if you drive in NYS without a driver license or vehicle registration issued by NYS.

A judge considers the law and the evidence of your intent and decides if you are a resident of NYS. For example, if you pay taxes or your children attend school in another state, a judge considers these facts to decide if your intent is to make NYS a "fixed and permanent" residence. The DMV will not decide if you are a resident of NYS, if you must get a NYS driver license, or if you must register your vehicle in NYS.

According to this law, students from other states or from other nations who attend school in NYS are normally not considered residents of NYS.

Definition of "Resident"

wth does that mean????...why do they have to be so dumb about it?? they couldn't just say--"if you live in nys for more than 3 months, you're considered a resident?????????"..

hello all--i just want to clarify...

my husband received his visa--we did the CR-1 and were approved...he has an Egyptian Driver's License...so, does that mean that he can drive with that until he receives his green card?...I thought he became a permanent resident once he came over here... after he becomes a permanent resident of the US--we will have to apply for the driver's license from the beginning??...i mean, he would have to get his permit and the 5 hour class, etc...??

sorry if this question was answered a gazillion times!!

i wish you all the best!!

i wish i could help.. but i don't have any experience with that...i'll try to ask around for you insha allah...

but, i think the first step would be evaluating your degree....that's what i did for my husband, i'll get you the name of the organization if you want.....it cost around $200 and you'll need your college transcript, the names of all the schools you've attended in your lifetime...and a few more things....if you're interested, i'll get you all the info asap...

...its funny, i was thinking of posting a very similar thread about engineers for my husband...lol...i'll go do that now..

wish you the best darling...take care

Hello Sora_9_Dam3a,

I'm a mechanical engineer who is just moved to the US, I would like to know more on how to job-hunt for a mechanical engineer job and how to get licence

thank you

Hey moeenzo--sorry i never replied! i haven't been on here much in the past few weeks...

well, i am learning more and more--day by day and most recently, i have learned that, you will need to take an exam. It is the FE/EIT exam--that stands for Fundamentals of Engineering/ Engineer in Training exam. The exam is about 8 hours long--the first four hours are general engineering, stuff you learn in the first couple of years of college and the second part is your choice--so you would choose the mechanical engineering...also, you will need to evaluate your degree--we used ECE [Education Credential Evaluators]--but there is a different company that is preferred for your license--this is a lot of information....i guess you can private message me with more questions...there are a lot of websites that i have at home--but i'm at school right now...so let me know what questions you have...take care. salam..

i didn't finish reading the thread--but i am wishing that this is it for you!!!!!!!!!! i'm praying that your husband gets his visa and you are reunited sooooooooon!!! wow!!! insha allah this is it!!! all the best!!

wow!!! congratulations!!! that's double the amazing news!!!!!!!!

congratulations!! i wish you all the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awww..i missed it i hope you all enjoyed yourselves and that the interview went well...

all the best

thanks so much for your replies!!! i realllyyyyyyy appreciate it so much!!!!

salam alukum

sure study in Egypt will be more easy and cheaper for him and as u said he will have more experience too. i am thinking of study when i go there inshaAllah but u know i am here medical laboratory specialist graduated from faculty of science Microbiology section and have diploma in analytical biochemistry and i heard i have to study college from the first .the most important to make sure his master will be state by USA . so he will have to study again .

wish best for you and your hubby inshaAllah

fee aman Allah

thanks for replying! what university did you receive your degree from? you should have your fiance look for a company to evaluate your degree--that way, you will know for sure if you have to begin college again or not. I don't think so. If anything, maybe you will have to take a few courses, but not start all over again. Also, you should study for the TOEFL exam from now--you will need about a 450-550 if you want to continue your education here. I wish you all the best insha Allah. salam..

If he enters the US and activates his CR1 he will have to be resident in the US.... yes he can travel abroad and could be outside the US for under 12 months, but you would have to show that he maintained a residence here in the US....

thank you--that answered all my questions--i wasn't sure if it was allowed....so i guess it won't really work.. well, i'm just hoping for the best...thanks again for the info!! i greatly appreciate it!!

i wish you all the best in all you do!!!

Hello--hope everyone's doing well!

I've been thinking about work for my husband and how he's going to adjust to life in the US and I got an idea...it's not quite developed, but it's a thought...

..I know it's going to be hard for him to get used to work here, especially if he's unemployed for a while--also, he wants to go on for his masters, but i'm worried that'll be even more difficult for him in the beginning. I'll be done with school at the end of December, hopefully. So, I was thinking--is it a good idea if we move to Egypt for a while, so he's working comfortably and he can get his masters from the American University in Cairo. That way, when we move back to the US, he'll have more work experience, in addition to an American masters degree--thus, making it easier for him to adjust here....

..the problem is--I don't know how the whole process works--I mean, with traveling with the visa. I know he can't stay out of the country for over a year--so maybe we can come for 2 weeks every year until he's finished. Also, there shouldn't be any paper work to deal with until January 2010...

I don't know--I'm going crazy over here looking for jobs and whatnot --what do you guys think?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!!

..wishing everyone a super fast visa journey..

Oh no. This is heartbreaking. If you need anything at all, the VJ community is here to support you.

For a second thee I thought you said: "My wife left me! She really left me! I thought...here we go again (shades of Satellite).

i thought the same thing...i said "oh no! not again!!"

good luck with the meal!

hope everyone enjoys their day!

i hope everyone feels better!! and i hope the new baby is doing well...take care...

oh my....how that makes me cringe!!! when i'm in the privacy of my own home, i'll make a bubble every 20 minutes maybe....but when i'm sitting on the subway and the girl sitting next to me is popping it like you can't imagine....oh my!!!!

it drives me insane--it is rude!

...ok, a friend of mine posted this on facebook and i just thought it was a joke....i'll comment after you guys take a look..

Exchange Student Starved While in Egypt

By JERRY HARKAVY, AP Posted: 2008-02-27 19:18:10 Filed Under: Nation News HALLOWELL, Maine (Feb. 27) - Jonathan McCullum was in perfect health at 155 pounds when he left last summer to spend the school year as an exchange student in Egypt.

Trip Abroad Goes Wrong

1 of 5 When Jonathan McCullum went to Egypt as an exchange student in September 2007, the 5-foot-9 teen weighed 155 pounds. When he returned to Maine four months later, he was down to 97 pounds and could barely climb a flight of stairs. The 17-year-old said he was starved by the family who hosted him.

But when he returned home to Maine just four months later, the 5-foot-9 teenager weighed a mere 97 pounds and was so weak that he struggled to carry his baggage or climb a flight of stairs. Doctors said he was at risk for a heart attack.

McCullum says he was denied sufficient food while staying with a family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more than 200 days a year, a regimen unmatched by other Christians.

But he does not view the experience as a culture clash. Rather, he said, it reflected mean and stingy treatment by his host family, whose broken English made it difficult to communicate.

"The weight loss concerned me, but I wanted to stick out the whole year," he said in an interview at his family's home outside Augusta.

Friends and teachers at his English-speaking school in Egypt urged him to change his host family, but he stayed put after being told the other home was in a dangerous neighborhood of Alexandria.

After returning to the U.S., he was hospitalized for nearly two weeks. The 17-year-old has regained about 20 pounds, but his parents say he's not the same boy he was when he left under the auspices of AFS Intercultural Programs.

"He was outgoing, a straight-A student, very athletic. Now, he's less spontaneous and more subdued," said his mother, Elizabeth McCullum, who was shocked when she met her son at the airport on Jan. 9 and saw he had lost one-third his weight.

Jonathan McCullum's parents said the exchange program should have warned them that students placed with Coptic families would be subject to dietary restrictions.

Marlene Baker, communications director at AFS headquarters in New York, declined to discuss McCullum's experience. She referred calls to the program's lawyer in Portland, Patricia Peard, who said she could not comment on McCullum's case because of the potential for a lawsuit.

McCullum said his host family gave him only meager amounts of food, and his condition worsened during the last seven weeks, when the family observed a fast limiting the amount of animal protein he was given.

The host family was a couple with two younger boys and a daughter who was in the U.S. on an AFS exchange. McCullum said the parents gave him the smallest food portions, hid treats in their bedroom and complained that the cost of his upkeep was more than they spent for their daughter when she was home.

The host father, Shaker Hanna, rejected McCullum's story as "a lie," suggesting that he made it up because his parents were hoping to recover some of the money they paid for his stay as compensation.

"The truth is, the boy we hosted for nearly six months was eating for an hour and a half at every meal. The amount of food he ate at each meal was equal to six people," Hanna said. He added that the boy was active, constantly exercising and playing sports.

Hanna, an engineer, said his family went out of its way to prepare special foods, including fish and chicken, for McCullum during the fast periods.

McCullum disputes that. The family served meat early in his stay, he said, but that ended during the fast period.

He said he never got breakfast and his first food of the day usually was a small piece of bread with cucumbers and cheese that he would take to school for lunch. There was a late-afternoon dinner consisting of beans, vegetables and sometimes fish, and a snack of bread later in the evening.

McCullum sometimes bought food, but at one point was reduced to stealing it from a supermarket. He was caught, but the store accepted the small amount of money he had and let him go.

Still, McCullum did not complain to his parents. His father suspects he may have fallen victim to Stockholm syndrome, in which people start to feel a sense of loyalty to those who victimize them.

McCullum's parents first sensed that something was amiss shortly before Christmas, when they got e-mails from their son and one of his teachers about seeking a new host family. They also saw a picture of him on Facebook indicating he had lost a lot of weight.

In early January, the teacher sent another e-mail saying McCullum was "in bad shape" and "really, really NEEDS to go home."

The McCullums said AFS provided false assurances that he had seen a doctor and was in excellent health.

After AFS arranged Jonathan McCullum's flight home, he happened to sit next to Sen. Susan Collins on the final leg, from New York to Portland.

"I was struck by how extraordinarily thin he was," Collins recalled. "He was just a stick. He was so emaciated and gaunt."

AFS, a nonprofit formerly known as American Field Service, is one of the largest and oldest organizers of student exchanges. Since its founding as an ambulance corps during World War I, the agency has arranged exchanges for 325,000 American and foreign students from more than 50 countries.

The McCullums said AFS discourages parents from telephoning or e-mailing their kids abroad, believing the distraction would run counter to the program's goal of immersing them in local culture.

"They told us to have as little contact as possible, and we bought into it," Elizabeth McCullum said. She said she had confidence in AFS, regarding it as "the gold standard" of exchange programs, but now is aware that things can go terribly wrong.

The Committee for Safety of Foreign Exchange Students, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the exchange programs are rampant with instances of abuse and neglect.

"This is not an isolated incident. I'm aghast but I'm not shocked," the committee's director, Danielle Grijalva of Oceanside, Calif., said after hearing McCullum's story.

An industry accreditation group, the Council for Standards for International Educational Travel in Alexandria, Va., takes a different view, noting that roughly 30,000 foreign students a year participate in exchange programs in the U.S., while 3,000 Americans go abroad.

In the context of those numbers, incidents like McCullum's are rare, Executive Director John Hishmeh said. "It's not common, it's not the norm and it's not a growing trend," he said.

The McCullums are considering a lawsuit. David McCullum expressed concern about the long-term physical and psychological effects on his son. "Someone needs to be held accountable, and I would like someone to say, 'I'm sorry.'"

Jonathan McCullum is recovering and recently went snowboarding with friends. He plans to return to school in the fall, rejoin the soccer team and eventually study to be a doctor.

Despite the ordeal, he has not soured on foreign travel: He wants to visit Zimbabwe this summer as part of a volunteer program to build homes and trails.

Associated Press Writer Maggie Michael contributed to this report from Cairo, Egypt.

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i'm so sorry to hear that babe. insha allah all will go well and that visa will be issued sooooooooooon!!! you're in my prayers, darling! as is everyone here! may allah give you the patience and strength to get through this wacky journey!..

i wish you all the best!! hang in there, you'll be together before you know it, insha allah!!

let's gooooooooo Cairooooooooooooo!!!!!

all the best!!! and enjoy your trip!! i looooove visiting egypt!!

Queens is awesome. Rey and I like to go there exploring. Like this weekend, we were supposed to go on a trip to Boston, but since I'm too busy, I'll probably try to squeeze in 6 or 7 hours in Queens instead. It's like effing Epcot Center but cheap over there.

hahahaha!

most diverse county in the united states!!

brooklyn is number 2!!

good, so i didn't misunderstand...lol...i felt like an idiot for a little bit haha, i'm in brooklyn, born and raised, but i go to school in the city..

where brooklyn at?!?!? lol

what neighborhood ya live in???

im from bensonhurst, but now im living in boerum hill

lol.. BROOOKLYN!!!...hahhaa....i'm in midwood...

haha awesome!! i was there last night (at a friends house) lol i went to midwood high school....MIIIIIIIIIIIIDWOOD lol...my grandma also lives in midwood (east 3rd and ave n), and i lived on ocean ave and newkirk for a little while...thats not technically midwood, but damn close!!

lol...i went to Murrow....but my brother went to Midwood high school...

brooklyn's the best!! haha..

Minya El Kamh approx an hour and a half from Cairo.

i have family there and my mother-in-law lives in a village right by there...

The village is it Sanhout? My fiancee's family is originally from there and his grandfather and a few aunts are living there now.

i have family in Mashtul and my mother-in-law is in Mit Ghamr...

i think it'll take less time if you do it yourself--the lawyer isn't separated from their spouse or fiance--they'd understand how much of a difference it'll make if they send it today before tomorrow..

i tried to be very quick with everything and i had most of the forms out within a few days and i never sent anything without overnight shipping...

i think it's pretty much self-explanatory...if you have any questions, NVC answered most of mine..

good luck everyone!!!

hey habibty...i've been thinking about you so much lately!!! why is cairo sooooooooooooooooo slow?!?!?!...seriously!!! they're driving ME crazy!!! i feel like going over there!! haha...i don't understand, WHY would they give you an estimate and then take their sweet ol' time issuing it??

i'm praying for you, babe!!! rabbina yegma3ko 3ala khair fe a2rab wa2t!!

i was getting some coffee today and the guy in front of me was buying one of those naked juices and i wanted to warn him about the calories...lool...

dooooooooon't dooooooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!! haha..

Hey guess what: I just got home and my Green Card was in the mail yay!!

congrats!

hey everyone..i hope everyone enjoyed their day..

i hope everyone feels better soon, Amy, Jackie and the rest of you....

i'm starting to feel a cold/sore throat coming on.. ...i'm so overwhelmed these days with exams and labs and all that good stuff...blaaaaah...can't wait for friday...

anyway, i hope everyone enjoys their night...

good, so i didn't misunderstand...lol...i felt like an idiot for a little bit haha, i'm in brooklyn, born and raised, but i go to school in the city..

where brooklyn at?!?!? lol

what neighborhood ya live in???

im from bensonhurst, but now im living in boerum hill

lol.. BROOOKLYN!!!...hahhaa....i'm in midwood...

soo adorable, masha Allah! rabbina yegma3ko 3ala khair fe a2rab wa2t way khalleko le ba3d!!

i'm a little late---but i hope everyone enjoyed their tuesday..

my day was fine, i guess...no snow--just rain..yuck! so gloomy, makes me wanna stay in bed all day..unfortunately, i had a 9 am class and i thought i was running late, but i got there a few minutes early, [woohoo? ??...nope!] only to find out that my professor would be coming 30 minutes late...

so much work to do...got 2 exams coming up, a whole bunch of papers...and the list goes on....i just want this all to end!! i feel like a 5th grader--school totally sucks!!!! haha..

anyway, good night everyone!!!!!!

i would love to address everyone--but i'm tired...a few posts back, i also read caramel as camel... lol

good night..

cute list...i read through the list--but i didn't realize i should have been keeping track of the points...but i'm confident, we're doing very well, alhamdulillah

Number 101: Have you written your first name with his last name all over your Trapper Keeper?

Number 102: When you twisted off the apple stem while reciting the alphabet, did the stem break on the first letter of his last name?