moved from Canada a couple months ago. I still have functioning Canadian credit cards and great credit there but need a credit card with local billing address for obvious reasons. My employer shifted my presence from Canada to US so my income is now in local USD.
After arriving in the US I went to a national bank and opened an account, and insisted they should look at my Canadian credit history to get approval for a credit through them. Rejected outright, the reason code was basically "not enough info" despite my years of activity in Canada. They did offer a secured credit card but I decided to look around because, at least at the time, I was still in the process of wiring my own money from
