To open a bank account these days people have to have, in addition to

[flordehinojos]

their driver's license ID, a credit card as ID. People who have said NO to credit card debt, got rid of their credit cards and have no credit cards ARE FRIED! OR, undocumented aliens ... they too are FRIED.

FASCIST AMERICA no more, no less!

[yardwork]

1. They've been doing this for decades

Just get the card in order to have the bank account, but don't charge anything on the card.

Edit to add: You will need the card to rent the car in case you ever need to go on the lam.

[flordehinojos]

2. Really?

Never heard of such a thing before...although i have heard of undocumented foreigners not being able to open a bank account precisely because ......

[skygazer]

14. Not decades

I just got my first ever credit card this past year. I'm 44 and have had bank accounts all my life. In the past 6 years, I've changed banks twice and have not had to have a credit card. I don't know where you got that info but it's incorrect.

You do, however, need a cc to rent a car at most rental agencies.

[bowens43]

3. This isn't true.

My son and my daughter were able to get checking accounts and savings accounts without having a credit card. This was at different banks in different parts of the state.

[flordehinojos]

5. maybe not all banks are doing it....the ones around here are!

[one_true_leroy]

4. I never had a card when I opened my account

but maybe the student/starter accounts are more lenient

[flordehinojos]

6. hmmmm! one way to beat the system!

[Historic NY]

7. I've been doing some heavy banking in the past week or so...they

just wanted another form of ID. The bank manager asked for DR Lic and any other Id, passport, etc. . I only had my license & credit cards and she said a credit card would be fine. I had power of attorney over some funds and was shifting sums of money to one bank. She would have taken any other form of ID, it was just a matter of convenience.

Oh and my credit card was for an entirely different bank.

[flordehinojos]

8. at least they offered to take some other form of id (passport etc) along

with your DL...and then took your credit card ID when that was what you had.

[LiberalSoutherner]

9. I recently opened a new account

and I only needed to present my drivers license.

edited for spelling <doh!>

[flordehinojos]

10. you know, that is how i recall the process of opening up a bank account

used to be...

[Deja Q]

11. Undocumented aliens is one thing, but they MUST have a kredit kard?

Not fasist. Manipulative and vile.

[flordehinojos]

12. Yeah. Kredit Kards for all ...

[Cuban_Liberal]

13. Not true here.

I have no cedit cards, and my bank was tickled pink to open both savings and checking accounts for me. Maybe it's a larger/more metropolitan area phenonmenon.

:shrug:

[flordehinojos]

15. could be...