RE: Knowing your customer
R. A. Hettinga[SMTP:rah@shipwright.com] wrote You're thinking of something else, but you're close enough. For instance, there are laws in most jurisdictions about requiring a social security number to open a bank account....
Are you saying that a visiting foreigner can't open a bank account in the US? I'd be quite suprised if this is the case. Peter Trei
At 10:20 AM -0500 on 12/7/00, Trei, Peter wrote:
Are you saying that a visiting foreigner can't open a bank account in the US? I'd be quite suprised if this is the case.
I would be surprised if you didn't need at least a tax ID number, myself. I'm not sure, because I don't have one, but I think that people with Green Cards have to have Social Security Numbers, right? Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
-- At 10:20 AM -0500 on 12/7/00, Trei, Peter wrote:
Are you saying that a visiting foreigner can't open a bank account in the US?
I'd be quite suprised if this is the case.
At 10:25 AM 12/7/2000 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
I would be surprised if you didn't need at least a tax ID number, myself.
Many years ago I, as a non resident of the US and non citizen of the US, opened an account in US dollars at a US branch of the bank of America without a social security number or a tax ID number. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG MfEDmSJiMYlcOEQBhlqUxwBSUTHW1kq6y5nnKsOx 4kxay6Xr+ylDqWbjRvUsznWW6aIAzbaL/ZAaLQbk6
At 8:59 AM -0800 on 12/7/00, James A. Donald wrote:
Many years ago
Ah. :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
"Trei, Peter" wrote:
R. A. Hettinga[SMTP:rah@shipwright.com] wrote You're thinking of something else, but you're close enough. For instance, there are laws in most jurisdictions about requiring a social security number to open a bank account....
Are you saying that a visiting foreigner can't open a bank account in the US? I'd be quite suprised if this is the case.
I guess an equivalent ID will do. in germany, you need your ID card to open a bank account (um, for those not in the know: we have state-issue ID cards in addition to passports. the passport is a travel document, used to visit non-EU countries. the ID card is used inside the EU and for national purposes (identification, mostly). you are NOT required to have it with you all the time or somesuch, but some activities, such as opening a bank account, require an ID card. driving license or other documents will do in many cases, but I think not for bank accounts).
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