US BANK ACCOUNT for NON US residents
After 9/11 the US government passed a new law named the Patriot Act, one impact this had was to make it almost impossible for a non US resident to get a US bank account. There is, however, still one method for obtaining an account that is almost identical to a current account and that is by opening a brokerage account with etrade.com. This account is primarily intended to be used for share trading however there is nothing to stop it being used simply as a standard bank account.You cannot apply for this account online, you have to fill in 2 forms and post them to the U.S.A. Instructions for gaining a U.S Bank Account Fill in the following two documents. These documents have been provided to you separately. EtradeApplication.pdf main application form TaxWitholding.pdf form to prevent you having to pay US tax If you cannot open these documents this means you need to download Adobe Reader. You can get this free from http://www.adobe.com/go/gntray_dl_get_reader Print, then Sign the above fo...