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How to deal with banks auditing your status as an Nonresident Alien after opening a foreign account.
1. Introduction Those who previously and successfully opened a bank account as a nonresident alien by using a W-8 rather than a W-9 may subsequently and sometimes repetitively be contacted by the bank because they their status looks suspicious or out of the norm from other account holders, who are almost universally “U.S. persons” who…
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