Hi Paul and Annie, Phew what a long thread so far, rather than try and work out your plans let me tell you briefly what we did, the problem of course matters may have changed as we found from those who advised us back in 2007.
Okay, back in Oct 2007 we also arrived in Florida with our B2, I had already booked a villa for 28 days and we had a hire car as part of our fly/drive only deal. I also had set up using a new account with HSBC in the UK an account also in Florida, this takes a month or two.
We stayed in North America exactly from Oct 2007 to Aug 2009 in this way.
USA from Oct 07 to Apr 08.
1st US visa
Canada Apr 08 to Aug 08
On 6th Aug 08 we flew back to the UK for 6 weeks for the birth of our first grand daughter.
16th Sept 08 returned to Canada.
8th Oct 08 crossed back into the USA.
2nd visa
April 09 was when our 2nd visa expired however we completed and posted our I-539 form along with $300 for a 6 month visa extension, this is completed and sent a month or two before the expiry of your current visa.
On the 27th April received letter from US Customs requesting further details for our application.
About one or two months before we flew home we received our extension to our visa that would have taken us up to October 2009.
Before our arrival in the USA I arranged.
Our address with a company in Kissimmee but you are using a relative I believe?
This company for our Montana LLC http://www.heggenlawoffice.com/ ask for Ron
This is the broker with whom we insured BOTH our RV & toad. http://www.gardencityins.com/ ask for Keith the actual insurance company is Progressive.
Sorry if this is a bit 'All over the place' but I'm trying to type this at 02.15 in the morning.
My UK driving licence was okay for the insurance company.
We bought our 2005 RV as a private sale from a fellow Brit who owns a villa in Florida, but we bought the Jeep brand new from a Jeep main dealer in Orlando, if you do obtain a Montana LLC then your RV and car if you buy one will BOTH be registered as Montana vehicles and bear Montana number plates or 'tags' as our American cousins call them, these would be sent to you from Heggan Law if you use them.
If you intend to NOT pay import duty and tax when you ship back to the UK you must have owned the vehicle/s for 6 months and been out of the UK or EU for 12 months.
Paul this could take forever could you PM me with your land line phone number or better still do you use Skype? We are currently in Spain. A quick phone call will be far better than trying to second guess exactly what you need, okay?
If you are on Skype my user name is voyager1836
Hope to here from you soon.
Mick