My understanding is that they (the white haired brigade) were all told by the board at the AGM that there would be no difficulties with moving the shares to America... My advice was to just sell the shares before the move and reminded them of their Elan and IRS tax issues. This did not go down at all well. Recently, I have learned they have more IRS issues because the shares are multiple different holdings with combinations of his, her and joints names. Anyway, it is not my (currently) problem. But I wish you luck and would also like to know the outcome, because the day will come when I will also have to sort the mess out :-(