KTLA Los Angeles: Bank of America Reportedly Froze Some Accounts After Asking Customers About Their Citizenship. https://ktla.com/2018/08/31/bank-of-america-reportedly-froze-some-accounts-after-asking-customers-about-their-citizenship/ Think we are next? (H1B people) I don't put it past these banks to try to appropriate funds belonging to immigrants if they get out of status. What's the best way to spread my risk? Recommend checking and savings options?
This is messed up
Bye people
You can move money to a global bank
OP, presumably you’re here legally, and you’re paid legally, so what’s the problem?
What's stopping them from coming for my money say if I lose my job and hence legal status.
If you’re worried about that, use a bank from your native country. The difference as far as I can tell, is that you earned your money by playing by the rules of the game. They earned money while not being legal. If you lost your legal status and continued to earn money and deposit into your account, that would be problematic.
Message for the unconcerned: This is how it starts. Do you really trust the government so much not to fuck you too?
This is scary. I am moving all my money to union bank.
It has more to do with incompetence than government conspiracy. Non citizens do need to tell the bank Country of Origin. I once got asked over the phone for this info. As a US citizen, I didn’t know why they were asking or if it was phishing. I let them have it. They fixed it on their own. This happened a decade ago.
Use robinhood, buy AMZN stocks.
This is why you should never have an account with just one bank or in just one country.
Illegal immigrants shouldn’t have access to bank infrastructure meant for legal citizens.
What a load of rubbish... what is the matter with such haters.. do you even realize what you are saying.. just for once get out of your ignorance and put yourself in others shoes and imagine the stress that they go through.. if you are not Native American then you are an immigrant. Different people chose different paths of getting her and not saying there should be open borders but there has to be a better way than what is going on now like children snatching. Bank is private does not belong to uscis. Why should people not have access to a private service they are paying for?
@Mon: Really? Is that what the Constitution says?