Since I travel frequently to the US, and I some online websites prefer a US-issed credit card, I am wondering how I can obtain credit card issued in the US. I have a US address. If necessary, I can open a bank account if that will make it easier. However, I do not work in the US, and I do not have a social security number. Please advise.
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I work at a bank. I know that you CAN open a bank account without ssn (you just have to sign W-8 form which they ll provide to you). However, without a social security number you are not eligible for a credit product (such as credit cards, loans etc). HOwever, you can get a debit card with your checking account and spend the money you have in your account with it everywhere in the world accepts Visa, MAster Card (Assuming your debit card will be one of them).\n\nGood luck.
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If you want to get payment try paypal. They are international as far as I remember.
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You cannot request a replacement card online. You can mail it, but since you must send originals of identifying documents (your ID card), it's better to just do it in person. You can get the form here: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/online/ss-5_rev.pdf and use the instructions here: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10120.html
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The nearest you can come to something like that is a credit card, which is why it is so popular.  Check major credit card companies -- I know MasterCard and especially Visa are accepted in most of the world.
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I live in Brazil and frequently bump into this situation. I haven't yet used any of the possible solutions and they might be slightly different for people in Australia.\nFirst of all, it's necessary to define what kind of barrier you're bumping into. I know of these:\n1) Credit card billing address is not in the US. The main concern here is credit card fraud. The site is woried that it won't be able to collect/prcecute you if you deny this purchase. If you buy alot, maybe you can open a checking acount in the US and have a credit card linked to it. Also, it seems to me that credit card compannies (Visa and Mastercard) are trying to address this issue and it seems that one solution will be thru the use of debt cards (Electron and Maestro) with enhanced seccurity. In these cases, smaller sites, in which you can acctually ring in and talk to someone might accept money order or some other solution.\n2) Another barrier is that a site might not have international delivery. One thing that might work, and I'm not sure this is what you were calling proxy, is a US address. I've received several e-mails offereing this service, but since I buy mostly books and cd's, I wasn't interested. Basically, you register and receive a US address. When ordering, you enter this address and the sites will ship your orders there. The company offering this virtual address service will then mail it to your real address. The only company I know that does it is LanBox. It is a Lan Chile group company which should qualify it as a reasonably serious company. But it operates only in some Latin American countries (I supose the ones Lan Chile flies to). Its site is at http://www.lanboxusa.com .\nWhat you might want to be aware of in these services is if the companny offering this service is giving you a P.O. box or and actual address. I've seen some sites stating that they do not mail to PO boxes. Also, this service is not cheap. There is a flat fee (or rent if you will) and a cost per order. Plus the delivery cost that the site will charge you.\n3) Finnally, another kind of barrier I've encountered is when attepting to buy a downloadable item like music or films. itunes and Google Videos, for example, do not allow sales to Brazil. I guess there concern here is that the legal system and law enforcement agencies will not do enough to prevent piracy. I think there are proxies that might be of use if the downloaded file is not limited to one computer only. There are a few questions on Answers concerning proxies and following these might give a clue.\nI know none of this helped you much but it might help some of the other readers. :(\nPS: Don't have to give me the points.
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This is easy.  Get your credit card from Nationwide.  They are the only UK issuer they do not charge you a commission for using your card abroad.  \nRemember though to always pay in the local currency and not in Sterling (otherwise you'll attact a DCC charge).\n\nNationwide actually lose money on the foreign transactions - they have to pay Visa a 1% conversion fee!  \n\nMost of their competitiors charge 2.75% commission!
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As previously mentioned, there are some security concerns with credit cards from outside the US. \n\nAdditionally, unless a corporation has a legal presence inside that country (a foreign branch, for instance) there is little that can be done if the credit is not paid by the issuing bank or if problems arise with the transaction.\n\nThus, many companies simply choose to not accept foreign credit.
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Just go to any US Bank and Open your Bank Account. After that, you can use that account in PayPal.\n\nIf you cannot travel to the United States of America to open a Bank Account I can help you with all your International Financial Needs.
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Are you an American with a Social Security number? AnnualCreditReport.com is an American based company. Credit in the states is Social Security number based, so if you don't have a SS#, you wouldn't be able to pull your credit.\n\nI'm not sure why it won't let you pull your credit If you have a SS#. Maybe if you are from the States and you use the last address you had when you still lived here, instead of your address in Germany it might work. If you have lived in Germany for a long time, then I don't know how current it would be. But it is free, so you might want to try it that way. Otherwise, you might want to try one of the other free credit report sites. Just do a search for free credit reports.
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Call them,ask them to activate it for u or to check with them the options available to u.\nFor personal: From outside the United States, please call us collect at 1-302-594-8200, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\nFor Business:If you live outside the U.S., please call 1-480-350-7099, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\n\nHope this was helpful.
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They have picture IDs, some of them and they can get SS cards no problem even if they are from another country. The government does not care when issuing a SS card what country the person is from.\nGo in with your foreign birth certificate and a drivers license and you get a SS card.\nThen you can open a bank account, get a car loan, get a job and live like a US citizen.\nIf they didn't give them SS cards, the problem would be solved!
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Hi friend,\nhow are you doing. Well for those kind of informations you have to spend money alitle bit. As you u i'm a non us resident and i wanted to open a us bank account. I went to a good website that give all the informations and also the form i suppose to send to the bank. I pay only $4 usd, i think it's not a lot of money. In case you want to do the same thing i give you the link:\nhttps://www.mycashjunction.com/product_details.php?pid=331\nwrite me to let me know how you get in
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You need to be more specific.  You will need to have a service to process the credit cards via the bank that issued them.  You also need to validate the credit card as well.  \n\nGo to Verisign and chek out their products.  The have one that you can purchase for a low amount and will charge yo very little each month to use their services.  The program is pretty much canned and requres little programing skills.  \n\nBe aware that after the product is installed, all of your support will be via email which takes a long time to solve an issue.  So, you really need to be more explicit in requesting and providing information or you will be very frustrated.
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you need to apply for a major credit card-like discover, visa, mc. These are fairly easy to get if you are in school or planning on it. i think discover has a student card. You pretty much need a major card to get other types of credit started, like store cards etc.be careful how you use your credit!
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go to the AMEX site referenced on the card and you can register the card number along with your personal details eg address which will allow you to use the card for online transactions. at that point you may call it a pre-paid credit card. :)
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I use a debit card for online purchases.  It is accepted at most places in place of a credit card.  The only issue I've ever had with it was when I was trying to rent a car.  They would only accept credit cards, which is understandable considering I don't often have alot of money in the bank.  You can also set up a Paypal account, through which you can make online purchases.
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i don't have one, but you should go wo www.citi.com and see what cards they have they are offering 20000 points if you open a checking account with 1500.00 and something else, trust me you have to shop alot to get points it isn't like afew points. just to go to canada you need like 67000 points and that is for one person, so going to hawaii, and all the other places you listed you need to shop alot and also the points don't really add up as fast as you think or as fast as you want to go on vacation.