How to handle the odd transaction in USD, despite only having a GBP bank account

[Mark Robinson]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Jean-David Beyer
<jeandavid8 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> In USA, due to fear of money laundering and other political nonsense,
> you cannot open a bank account at a US bank unless you are a legal
> resident of the state in question and can prove it with photo ID issued
> by a government agency

That's not true.  You can open a bank account at a real bank (not a
credit union) with just a passport.  In fact, there are banks which
specialize in opening accounts for people who are not in the US at
all.  The requirement is that they "Know your customer", so they have
to know who you are, what you do, etc but as long as they can satisfy
themselves you are who you say you are then they'll open an account
for you.

Mark