From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 26 9:50:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4884237B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1252"@[136.142.89.102]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K581QNLQHY003QQZ@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:50:35 EST Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:00:44 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: US checking accounts for non-US residents To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B38BFBC.E94EE925@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: <200106251505.f5PF5Kn49643@lists.unixathome.org> <20010626073358.D795@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> 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 Uncle Sam likes money so if you are legally working or studying in the US it's easy to get a SSN. In my case the INS came to the University and with a simple letter from the employer (in this case office of international services) they assigned it. I've heard that there are so many illegal Colombians in the US lately that they created something called a "Tax ID" just so this theoretically illegal people pay taxes. OTOH, paying taxes is not nice and I hate credit cards, so I use a checking account which let's me buy stuff just like a VISA card. Pedro Greg Lehey wrote: > ... > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message