How do I use my Canadian USD Visa/Mastercard on my Apple account?

I'm a Canadian, with homes in both Canada and USA.
I have a Visa and a Mastercard. Both currencies are USD.
My billing address on both cards are Canadian.
So how do I use my card in the App store? It always gives me an error about my location.
My billing addresses are Canadian, so I choose my country as Canada, but it says it's not valid in this country.
I also tried using one of my US addresses, same problem.
Very annoying. Both cards have the same problem!!

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
In which country is the bank?
To use the Canadian store, you must reside in Canada, have a verifiable bank card issued by a Canadian bank with a verifiable Canadian billing address. To use the USA store, you must reside in the USA, have a verifiable bank card issued by a US bank with a verifiable US billing address. Anything that is slightly different than these requirements will cause the system to reject your payment method.

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