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Old Apr 1, 2016 | 2:31 am
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
No ID required, the SSN and a real physical mailing address in the US is sufficient. A checking account in the US is helpful, but you need to be personally ID-ed (foreign passport is OK) for that. You might want to download the existing credit rating report to see how the bank rate you currently. Anything credit like that happened >6 years ago make you credit card worthy.
Avianca Lifemiles offers secured credit cards that earn miles, BTW.

More here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...dit-cards.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...in-no-ssn.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...residents.html
So If I visit the US, can I just walk into a bank as a foreigner and say I want to open a checking account and be accepted? Or do they tend to be strict?
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