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Ask YC: getting a US bank account for non-US resident.
Hi!
I'm investigating the possibility of opening a US bank account for non-US resident.
Is it possible at all, and if yes, how hard can it be?
Basically I need to have it in order to be able to accept PayPal / Google checkout.
The only way I see right now is:
1) set up an LLC in Delaware,
2) open a corporate bank account for my LLC.
While the first step is quite feasible, the second one is pretty vague. I couldn't find any good information on what it takes to get a bank account for an LLC, especially if I'm not a US-resident.
Does anyone here have experience in it?
Alternatively, if I'm missing something and there's a simpler way to accept PayPal payments,
point me to one.
Thanks,
Kirill
P.S: I'm from Moscow, Russia
- patio11 18y agoThis is a common question on another forum I participate on. I got tired of answering it so I wrote it up as a blog post: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/08/15/banking-for-the-uisv/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/08/15/banking-for-the-uisv/ Short version: getting a US bank account for a non-US resident is possible and routine.
- kuvkir 18y agoThanks for the great post, however I still don't understand some concepts. I'll research more on that later.
- listic 18y agoThere was an article on getting a US merchant account recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530055 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530055 P.S. I'm from St.-Petersburg, Russia
- kuvkir 18y agoThanks, the curious thing that I saw that post and even bookmarked it, but somehow forgot to read it ;)