From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 26 5:17:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (tserver.conference.usenix.org [199.103.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA4837B405 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f5QBXwE01076; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:33:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:33:58 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: US checking accounts for non-US residents Message-ID: <20010626073358.D795@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200106251505.f5PF5Kn49643@lists.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200106251505.f5PF5Kn49643@lists.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:05:18AM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message