Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:10:13 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: US checking accounts for non-US residents Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010625171013.00e46e20@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <200106251505.f5PF5Kn49643@lists.unixathome.org>
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At 11:05 2001-06-25 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >Has anyone been able to open a US checking account while not >residing in the USA? How did you do it? From what I can tell, you >need a SSN in order to open an account. I did, though it was some 20 years ago. I was in the US on a student visa. I walked into a bank and opened a checking account. I kept it open even after I returned to Europe. Two years later I became a US resident. Only then did I close the account. You only need a SSN if you are a US tax payer as the banks are required to report your interest and things like that to tax authorities. And to them, you are but a number. Cheers, Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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