It’s an electronic Berlin Wall —if you hold the blue passport and try opening ANY bank account overseas, then the bank will look at you like you’re coughing Ebola blood all over the NYC subway:
Uncle Sam tells the banks, “you have to send us REAMS of info about OUR guy, and if you don’t, then we’ll tax 30% on every one of your transactions that flow through ANY US bank...”
It is the same greedy, bully force that puts NYC cigarettes at $13.50 and makes “onesies” profitable for choke hobbyists.
We used 2b welcome ALL over the globe as banking customers, and now we’re leper AIDS Ebola guys.
Doing biz with any American means a tax-hungry dictator is calling you up around the clock, speaking rudely and arrogantly, and trying to sue you, non-stop.
It’s way easier for all bankers to simply tell ALL Americans, “we don’t accept American citizens as customers..”
Obama and his global bullying have made us into Nigerians.
Is there any way around this? I would like to open an account in my other country. Do you have to show your blue passport? Can you get by if you just show the other one?