Changing Country of Residence in the Post-MQD Era (Definitive)
May 23, 2013, 3:06 pm
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Thanks for your clear and informative post ^
After stumbling unto, it helped push me in the right direction after procrastinating and being indecisive as in what to do with the new SM requirements.
As an expat I might have more options as to whether give in to DL's MQD-era demands and wish someone could advise me accordingly.
Did your address change eventually get duly processed ?
After stumbling unto, it helped push me in the right direction after procrastinating and being indecisive as in what to do with the new SM requirements.
As an expat I might have more options as to whether give in to DL's MQD-era demands and wish someone could advise me accordingly.
Did your address change eventually get duly processed ?
May 23, 2013, 3:10 pm
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May 23, 2013, 5:01 pm
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I've been hoping to ask you for advise and shall do so soon by PM - if you don't mind.
But first want to explore my other options in the US a bit more (and possibly procrastinate again
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Last edited by Travelomania; May 23, 2013 at 5:07 pm
May 23, 2013, 7:46 pm
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Here is my confusion: I am a civilian employee of the military, so I have an APO address (nominally, a U.S. address), but I live in town (and have for 4+ years and more to come) with a Korean address. In order to save the very expensive Korean postage, I have my mail come to my APO. ALL my flights originate in Korea. So, for MQD, am I U.S.-based or not? I assume that DL considers me U.S.-based (by the way, many of the DoD contract city pairs - mandatory use for employees - out of Korea are on DL) since I would have to meet the MQD amounts next year.
May 26, 2013, 7:58 am
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Here is my confusion: I am a civilian employee of the military, so I have an APO address (nominally, a U.S. address), but I live in town (and have for 4+ years and more to come) with a Korean address. In order to save the very expensive Korean postage, I have my mail come to my APO. ALL my flights originate in Korea. So, for MQD, am I U.S.-based or not? I assume that DL considers me U.S.-based (by the way, many of the DoD contract city pairs - mandatory use for employees - out of Korea are on DL) since I would have to meet the MQD amounts next year.
May 27, 2013, 10:19 am
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Here is my confusion: I am a civilian employee of the military, so I have an APO address (nominally, a U.S. address), but I live in town (and have for 4+ years and more to come) with a Korean address. In order to save the very expensive Korean postage, I have my mail come to my APO. ALL my flights originate in Korea. So, for MQD, am I U.S.-based or not? I assume that DL considers me U.S.-based (by the way, many of the DoD contract city pairs - mandatory use for employees - out of Korea are on DL) since I would have to meet the MQD amounts next year.
As the APO shows as a US-billing address, I assume they'd count it as US-based. I switched to my UK (home) address and everything for dl.com now defaults the the UK site. As I do live in the UK, I'm not dodging around anything.
I do not think the originating city of your flights impacts residency...it's going to come down to what DL has as your residence address. GSA City Pairs should have no bearing on this.
Ultimately, DL is going to look at where you tell them you live - if you say it's APO, AP, then it'll show up as US, if its Korea, then it's a non-US address.
May 27, 2013, 4:22 pm
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I am in the same boat...but in Europe.
As the APO shows as a US-billing address, I assume they'd count it as US-based. I switched to my UK (home) address and everything for dl.com now defaults the the UK site. As I do live in the UK, I'm not dodging around anything.
I do not think the originating city of your flights impacts residency...it's going to come down to what DL has as your residence address. GSA City Pairs should have no bearing on this.
Ultimately, DL is going to look at where you tell them you live - if you say it's APO, AP, then it'll show up as US, if its Korea, then it's a non-US address.
As the APO shows as a US-billing address, I assume they'd count it as US-based. I switched to my UK (home) address and everything for dl.com now defaults the the UK site. As I do live in the UK, I'm not dodging around anything.
I do not think the originating city of your flights impacts residency...it's going to come down to what DL has as your residence address. GSA City Pairs should have no bearing on this.
Ultimately, DL is going to look at where you tell them you live - if you say it's APO, AP, then it'll show up as US, if its Korea, then it's a non-US address.
(I hardly fly DL and when I do it will likely be out of/to YVR/SEA)
Jun 2, 2013, 9:08 am
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This is no problem whatsoever, but I hope they will not require more than the requested paperwork and ask for every person involved i.e. a notarized statement from the local authorities
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Jun 2, 2013, 9:15 am
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Jun 2, 2013, 4:50 pm
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Jun 6, 2013, 10:06 am
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Just wanted to update this post stating that my address request still has not been completed.
I contacted @DeltaAssist about it, and they say they needed to forward the request to "a different department" because my ID card is written in Japanese.
Apparently Delta's having a hard time finding a qualified bilingual who can take 30 seconds to simply crosscheck a Japan address written in both Kanji and the alphabet...
I contacted @DeltaAssist about it, and they say they needed to forward the request to "a different department" because my ID card is written in Japanese.
Apparently Delta's having a hard time finding a qualified bilingual who can take 30 seconds to simply crosscheck a Japan address written in both Kanji and the alphabet...
Could you please give us an update of the process ?
Since your last post is from March 6th.
Jun 7, 2013, 8:06 am
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Jun 7, 2013, 8:36 am
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May 26, 2015, 8:08 am
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Took them 4 or 5 days after faxing in the info, but they made the change to my home address on my profile (but I was never notified).
Does anyone know: will Delta only email the credentials to the primary address on the account? I'm in a country that has no real postal service to speak of, and so it would be advantageous to have it sent to a U.S. address to pick up when I'm back.
Does anyone know: will Delta only email the credentials to the primary address on the account? I'm in a country that has no real postal service to speak of, and so it would be advantageous to have it sent to a U.S. address to pick up when I'm back.