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I signed up with my US address and banking information. "By registering for a Stripe Service Account, you are confirming to be either a legal resident of the U
by patio11 14y ago
I signed up with my US address and banking information. "By registering for a Stripe Service Account, you are confirming to be either a legal resident of the United States, a United States citizen or a business entity authorized to conduct business by the state in which it operates." (Though I finally got a DBA from Illinois, um, yesterday. Not related to Stripe -- a hospital wasn't thrilled with the notion of writing a particular flavor of check to a natural person.)
- csomar 14y agoCould you elaborate more on this? What's a US address, and how did you get a bank account?
- patio11 14y agoSo let me answer the question behind the question first, which I take to be "I don't live in the US, but would like a US bank account": http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/08/15/banking-for-the-uisv/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/08/15/banking-for-the-uisv/ Now to answer the question you asked: I have lived in Japan for my entire adult life, but prior to that I grew up in the United States. I routinely use my former address, which my parents still live at, for business purposes. Even if it weren't trivial for me to open accounts online, I would still have accounts in good standing from e.g. my college student days, which are sufficient to bootstrap me into a customer relationship at any US bank.