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@dusseldorf Late to the party here but thanks for your comment, it was exactly what I’ve been searching this sub for. I am in a similar situation (US expat without a US Vanguard account) looking to start investing for retirement. The options for buying HMRC-reporting US domiciled ETFs are...

@mpebv The pension thing confuses me too. I object to the huge fines that can be levied if you make a mistake - such as reporting your pension account, or forgetting the pension account from that job you left 10 years ago, and the fact that these fines are based on the maximum value of the...

@pioneer1 Yep, basically they assume you’re a criminal if you have a pension in the country where you live, or if you want to have a checking account local to you so you can, you know, pay your bills and stuff.

I hope this allowed in this sub; apologies if goes against the rules. FinCEN, the U.S. Treasury Department bureau that's responsible for overseeing the receipt of Foreign Bank Account Reports, is inviting comments "on the proposed renewal, without change, of existing information collection...