On arrival
Once you took the exams, applied for programs, interviewed, have been accepted ... It's not quite finished! There are still some specific steps on arrival for IMGs.
The first thing you'll have to do is to report your arrival in the country. You will be contacted by your university's international affairs office to go see them as soon as possible. They will notify the ECFMG of your arrival. About ten days later, you can apply for a US social security number (the International Affairs Office will explain how). It takes another two weeks to receive it once you have filed your file. You will need it for many things.
You can open a bank account quite easily with your employment contract. You can take a phone number but only prepaid (payment at the beginning of the month) before having a social security number.
In terms of driving license, it is more likely that you will have to take retake a driving license test, unless you're from one of the four countries that has a driving license agreement with Texas at least (might be valid for the US): France, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea. For those country, you just have to present to the nearest DMV with some documentation and you can surrender your country of origin drrver's license and get an american one instead. You might want to have the website accessible to prove it, sometimes they're not aware of this agreement.
The first thing you'll have to do is to report your arrival in the country. You will be contacted by your university's international affairs office to go see them as soon as possible. They will notify the ECFMG of your arrival. About ten days later, you can apply for a US social security number (the International Affairs Office will explain how). It takes another two weeks to receive it once you have filed your file. You will need it for many things.
You can open a bank account quite easily with your employment contract. You can take a phone number but only prepaid (payment at the beginning of the month) before having a social security number.
In terms of driving license, it is more likely that you will have to take retake a driving license test, unless you're from one of the four countries that has a driving license agreement with Texas at least (might be valid for the US): France, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea. For those country, you just have to present to the nearest DMV with some documentation and you can surrender your country of origin drrver's license and get an american one instead. You might want to have the website accessible to prove it, sometimes they're not aware of this agreement.
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