Originally Posted by Sunny Day

The new anti-terrorism laws have made it much harder. If you take a vacation to the US, it's a lot easier and that would be a tax deductible vacation. Also having a US address helps. Most people in the US have no concept of the rest of the world. We expect everyone to speak English, pay in US Dollars, have a US bank account. a US address and a US cell phone. Hell, I used to work at the Post Office and some people there thought New Mexico & Hawaii were foreign countries.

Had a friend over from the UK on business took him 1/2 hour to open an account. I apologized about the time. Would have been a lot faster had he had a Social Security number.

When I was at a major phone company, they refused any checks unless they were drawn on a US bank. We rejected a huge payment, even though it was payable in dollars it was from an Israeli bank.