Timeline for How can I sign up for a bank or other financial account in Europe if I live in the US?
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| Jul 31 at 21:59 | history | migrated | from law.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jul 31 at 21:19 | comment | added | JustWilliam | The answers below are correct. However, a traditional stockbroker in the US (by which I mean where you call them and ask them to buy and sell things for you and ask them for advice) can get access to European stocks and other European financial instruments for you. Also, I'd be very careful about doing it yourself if you're not really resident in Europe. I live in US. I inherited some stock that were in a European brokerage account; it was a nightmare! They basically refused to help me get the dividends or sell them. I had to call in some powerful people. | |
| Jul 31 at 19:08 | comment | added | Perdi Estaquel | Shop around...limiting factors are proof of id, tax id, address, contact form...i opened an account in an EU country by actually going there for 6 weeks. | |
| Jul 31 at 15:28 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @JustinCave: AFAIK, US citizenship is not even required for European banks to be very careful around you. A Green Card is quite enough. | |
| Jul 31 at 8:12 | answer | added | littleadv | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 31 at 6:30 | answer | added | PMF | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 31 at 6:23 | comment | added | Justin Cave | This is more of a personal finance/ expats question than a law question. If you are an American citizen and you are not a billionaire, no European bank wants to deal with the reporting and regulatory hassle of a US citizen in the US. | |
| Jul 31 at 6:00 | history | asked | Harrison Bradford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |