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From: Bela Ban (click for textversion of email address )
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 10:51:30 PDT

Hi Frederic,

> 1) taxes : how much taxes will I pay for a stay of one or two years ?
> The proposed salary is about $35K per year.

You won't have to pay any taxes at all. That is: no federal, state,
social security etc.: 0%

> 2) Which sort of visa do I need for me and my family ?
> My wife will not work.

You will probably need a J1. Your wife will get a J2. Actually, if she
wanted to work, she'd be allowed to under a J2, but only a certain
number of hours/week. Am (I'm not sure), possibly only on campus.

> 3) Which solutions do exist to transport personnal stuff from
> Switzerland to US ? How much it cost ?

We did not have a big household at that time, and used SwissCargo to
ship ca. 26 banana boxes to NYC. Cost was around SFr 1000.- But we had
to release them ourselves and get them through customs, which took us a
half day.
There are commercial companies (look them up in SwissRevue), but they
use containers and charge a lot more. On the other hand, you have
doo-to-door service.

Hope this helps, 

--
Bela Ban
Fujitsu Network Communications
(408) 895-1732

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