International Couple - Joint Bank Account options

[v15ben]

Hi folks,

My fiancee is from the US, I'm a Brit and she is moving over here later this year.
We want to set up a joint bank account that is more practical to use around the world.
She is selling her car etc over in the US and only has a local credit union banking account currently.
She wants to transfer the money made to me, close the credit union and for us to have one joint account (+ our sole UK accounts too) that we can use to make payments in the UK and US.
Just wondering what our options are?
Citibank Blue Plus seems decent at £8 a month, HSBC also offer something similar.
Just wondered what people use/have experience of and what other options I should be looking at?

Thanks.

[boxst]

I have a Citibank account in US dollars and another in pounds. It is free if you have more than $2K in there and can pay in dollars and transfer money around.

That way I can transfer money to/from the US and decide when I want to convert it to pounds. At the moment my dollar account is just sitting there as the exchange rate isn't good from the dollar.

[v15ben]

Good information, thanks Steve.
Did you set the account up from the UK?
Am I right in thinking the CitiPlus Account linked here is the one you're talking about?
http://www.citibank.co.uk/personal/banking/banking...