Peronally, I Blame Bush
When I went to school I was taught there was a difference between “may” and “MUST.”
Given they know you, you showed in person, have been there for years I would think they’d use that other variation of “may” to mean, “OK, never mind. For you we don’t have to.”
I would let them know I was pissed and then change banks.
Posted by Vilmar
08/29/2009 at 09:26 AM
Nice to hear from vilmar, I miss his old site! I may know of someone who scammed a good job, way over his qualification without showing his credentials. In England, when I solm my house I had to produce my passport to my lawyer, he has known me for 20 years, handled the case when I wanted to take my daughter to Canada (did I say my lawyer was from Toronto?) and handled the purchase of the house 14 years earlier, and still the law made him take a copy of my passport, to combat terrorism. I deduce from this that no terrorists or international jewel thieves have ever, ever held a forged or fraudulently obtained passport, not even the honorable labour MP the nice Mr John Stonehouse?
This is pure communist control mechanism (I dont use the fraudulent and hackneyed phrase"socialism" any more ) how many of us remember the good old days when we had more rights than common criminals?Posted by Chris Edwards
08/29/2009 at 10:38 AM
Hey Chris, I remember. Kind of. But it was back in late 1940’s and maybe 50’s. After that?
Drew ..
Over 15 yrs ago and possibly more, when we moved from Franklin,TN to Riverside,CA, we tried to open a bank account at B of A in Riverside. Never mind not being able to open a simple checking account. We couldn’t get in the door any time we went. Sounds like a joke huh?
No kidding. Wife and I decided that no matter what things looked like through that glass door, it wasn’t really a bank but a front either for the KGB, the CIA or the Mafia.
Try and imagine a bank with locked doors ALL THE TIME and a sign right across the front proclaiming them to be The Bank of America.Never forgot that. Went somewhere else and opened an account but truth to tell ya. It wasn’t easy then either. Trying to transfer money from TN to CA wasn’t easy. Had to jump thru hoops then. AH BUT how’s this.
Came to England as you know in ‘04 and it took months to get an account made a joint account. Same reasons as you post here. Except my wife already had an account in her name at the bank, she used it when she came over here every year for a few months with her mother. So the account already existed. But they still insisted on documentation. It didn’t matter at all the Her Majesty’s govt had already vetted me (at some cost btw.) They wanted a utility bill. Well how was I supposed to have that? Wasn’t my house and we’d only been here a very short time trying to settle in. Finally managed to get a couple of bills in my name and that plus my passport finally did it but it took months.
I’m sure this is covered somewhere in U.S.C. 12 (Banks and Banking), but I’d love to see you go back to the bank and simply ask them what specific part or parts of the United States Code empower them to ask you that information.
If they’re going to inconvenience you, you might as well have fun making them scurry like the rats they are.
08/29/2009 at 10:56 AM
