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Date:      Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:33:58 -0400
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: US checking accounts for non-US residents
Message-ID:  <20010626073358.D795@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200106251505.f5PF5Kn49643@lists.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:05:18AM -0400
References:  <200106251505.f5PF5Kn49643@lists.unixathome.org>

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On Monday, 25 June 2001 at 11:05:18 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> Has anyone been able to open a US checking account while not
> residing in the USA?

Yes.

> How did you do it?

Went into the bank, gave a local address (of a friend), and opened the
account.

> From what I can tell, you need a SSN in order to open an account.

They were a bit confused that I didn't have one, but they got over
it.  I've had the account for 8 years now, and they won't give me a
credit card because of the lacking SSN, but apart from that it works
fine.

Greg
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