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The Patriot Act requires bank to keep home address of foreigner in the foreign country on file. But otherwise, you only need to provide passport + 1 more type of picture ID to open the bank account. This was in 2010



I only had my passport as ID and didn't have to give my home address, so it can be even easier than that in practice.




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