<prompt> Human: I recently was relocated to the US from Canada and the credit does not transfer over. I therefore am starting with no credit and am having a difficult time acquiring a credit card. I have enough disposable cash that I can pay in advance, but it seems like most of the options dont offer rewards the reason I use a credit card.Thanks PF  <response>: This was in 2013, but I was able to get a credit card from Bank of America when I first came over from Canada.At the advice of a friend who had done the same thing, I went into Bank of America and told them that I was Canadian and told them since they had no idea what I was talking about that they had some special program for getting Canadians with established Canadian credit an entry-level Crefit card in the US.They had never heard of it, and so I told them to look in their systems for a special application: Diplomat, Large Corporate and Canadian Client Consumer Credit Card Special Handling Form.To their surprise, they found it, had me fill out my details which included both my US SSN and my Canadian SIN, in addition to the normal details in a credit card application. They had never seen the form before, but I had the credit card in hand a few weeks later.No idea if this still exists, but this was something apparently passed down a chain of Canadian expats and it all worked for them. 