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- Banks in the US routinely solicit identification documents from their customers as part of the institutions' due-diligence efforts, ensuring the banks are complying with federal law.
- But for people from certain countries, the prospect of revealing their country of origin is risky in an era where the Trump administration is cracking down on immigration offenses
- Some customers say their bank accounts were frozen after the institutions asked them to prove that they were in the US legally.
Some bank customers in the US say their financial institutions asked them to provide documentation to prove they are in the US legally. In at least one case, a customer said his bank froze his account after the bank rejected the identification he submitted, the Miami Herald reported.
The newspaper said Thursday that an Iranian doctoral student at the University of Miami was recently locked out of his Bank of America account after he submitted documentation to prove his legal residency in the US.
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