Your Experiences: Banking; Dealing with Consulates; Entering the US
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Banking
Banking Issues
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The Ripple Effect is Here. Americans Unable to Open Bank Accounts. In CANADA!
Is TD Bank Overzealously Ferreting Out US Persons?
Dealing with Consulates for Expatriation
Consulate Report Directory: Brockers Describe their Consulate Meetings
Entering the United States
Entering the United States: Current thread 2019
Entering the United States: Previous thread 2013-2019
UK passports only state city of birth, not country. I was born in California in a place which sounds Spanish (not one of the obvious ones like LA or SF). That was helpful when I visited North Korea and travelled on my British passport, hiding the fact that (at the time) I also had US citizenship.
I met an American-British dual citizen who was born in Atlanta, Georgia. On his UK passport it states his place of birth as “Georgia”. Knowing that the birthplace should show the city, he asked the passport office to correct this and put “Atlanta”. They refused to do so. I told him he was lucky. When opening bank accounts in UK, if anyone bothers to ask, he can reply that he was born in Tbilisi.
And today at the bank…
“Is the business a resident of another country for tax purposes?”
This language is moving into plausible deniability territory – kudos to the lawyers.