Hope you found the information on this site useful. I would have loved to have this information available to me many years ago, when I got started in America. Lack of this information over the years cost me not only a lot of money I could have saved, but also cost me many-many hours in lost time, trying to figure things out by myself, doing things the wrong way.

Airline travel regulations are becoming stricter year by year, making airline travel more and more difficult. While airline travel regulations in the past were just common sense rules, some of them these days are getting borderline paranoic. Here are a few of the most common airline travel regulations you should know about.

About Airports

Airports are divided into several terminals. Often a terminal is so big it's like a small airport in itself. Every terminal has several gates, sometimes up to 50 or more gates. Most terminals have shops and stores where you can shop, often a dedicated food place called food court where you can eat. How you can get from one terminal to another varies from airport to airport. At some airports you just walk, at other ones there are dedicated buses, airport train (often called concourse) or monorail.

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Newcomers guide to America is about the basics of American life. Welcome and glad you found our site. :-)

You probably have heard about the yearly US Green Card Lottery. This is a federal government program, which every year gives away 55,000 US green cards through a randomly selected computer lottery. The lucky winners and their family will get their green card (full rights to live and work in the US) through fast-track processing, very quickly.

Lost green cards can be a considerable headache to their owners. Replacing lost green cards does not only involve considerable amount of time and headache but it will ease your wallet of several hundreds of dollars as well. So take good care of it.

In America car insurance insures not the car, but the driver. In other words, if you have car insurance, and your wife doesn't if she makes an accident she (you) will have to pay for the damage. So the insurance coverage is related to persons.

Basic auto insurance policies are made up of a combination of the six types of coverage:

Sooner or later you will need to open a bank account. Probably the first question what you will be asked is what type of account would you like to open.
There are mainly two major types of bank accounts in America:
- checking account, and
- savings account