Living near the embassy doesn&#x27;t make things any easier.  I live about a 5 minute walk from the US embassy in Oslo, and you have to have an appointment to do anything.  The embassy is supposed to accept ballots, but for all intents and purposes only does this for presidential elections, so I still end up going to the post office.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly frustrating how even when living overseas you have to have some sort of residential address for many things.  I use my father&#x27;s address for this purpose, which is useful since he lives in a state with no local income tax, reducing some of my paperwork.