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> If you had dual citizenship (e.g. Canadian + US), do you even need to tell a bank about your US citizenship when opening an account? If they bank (or its par
by rodgerd 12y ago
> If you had dual citizenship (e.g. Canadian + US), do you even need to tell a bank about your US citizenship when opening an account?
If they bank (or its parent) wants to be able to do business in the US, yes.
This is part of the same overreach as insisting data resident in an Irish data centre, belonging to an Irish entity, is subject to the US courts in violation of Irish and EU law.
- anigbrowl 12y agoThat's not a good analogy. Microsoft is not really an Irish entity just because it owns an Irish subsidiary. Microsoft has a valid argument, but omitting the fact of the parent entity being American is disingenuous.
- mariuolo 12y agoActually it is. Or has the internet done away with the concept of law of the land?