> Walk into a bank to open an account where to receive your salary. In no time after mentioning your US citizenship, you are shown the exit door. Try every bank

> Walk into a bank to open an account where to receive your salary. In no time after mentioning your US citizenship, you are shown the exit door. Try every bank until you eventually lie about it as the only way go on with your life. Things are highly inconvenient, but not this hopeless. In most EU countries there is at least one bank that will open an account for (locally resident) US citizens, although the process does involve some extra forms where you have to write down your American Social Security Number as your “tax information number”.