How to get an ITIN if I don't have passport?
"On the IRS site you can find a list of ""acceptance agents"" in your country. Talk to one of them, they'll deal with the IRS on your behalf. If you don't have any in your country, you can contact the big-4 accounting firms or any other agent elsewhere to provide you service. I'd suggest doing this through an agent."
"&gt;'Consent' is socially created  No it isn't. I don't care what society you are in. If a girl says no to sex, and it is forced upon her, it is rape. I don't care what society says, that is rape.  There actually are preventions from leaving the state, I have to pay to get a passport. The state actually has to accept my passport. Another place in the world that I actually want to go to has to accept me, etc.  I can't just go willy nilly wherever I see fit.  And you can't walk into my house and set up camp because it is my private property. There are such things as natural rights not given by society or government. It is what makes it immoral for me to shoot you.  Unless you think that is up to society to.  I can't just say, ""I don't consent to you living"" and shoot you. You have the natural right to life.   However, if you want to play this game then fine.  You are born into a state that teaches you the way that ""society works.""  Here are the only laws:   On your 18th birthday, everyone in society votes on whether we should kill you or not. It's fair because it is determine by democratic majority If you want to leave the country because you don't consent, you can only do so if you leave the day after your 18th birthday.  Oh that stinks. I guess you have to stay here and take it.  Besides, it isn't like you would want to go to the other states anyway. All of the other states take their votes earlier.  So as it looks, this is your best option, doesn't make it moral.   I don't want to leave the US, I think it is the closest place in the world to what I believe in. However, just because society deems it as moral/ethical means that it is. That is a whole new level of mental reification my friend" Singapore does well because?  Zurich does well because?  London is already a much larger and more versatile financial centre than anywhere you have cited (bar New York) or the above.  Not all financial services require passporting and, as I mentioned,'it remains to be seen whether some arrangement can be reached that allows firms UK firms similar passport privileges within the EU that they currently enjoy. Finance is very different from trade and the City is far less vulnerable to this political divorce than British importers and exporters.   Never mind that London is a much greater cultural hub than any would be pretenders. I work in finance, no one I know has the slightest inclination to move to Frankfurt.  It'll take a generation for any city to build up the institutional knowledge, infrastructure and talent pool that exists in Greater London. You could get a prepaid Visa card. You don't need a bank account and at least here in Australia you just buy them over the counter at the post office. I believe the U.K. has a similar card: Travel Money Card Plus from the Post Office.  The card requires a UK passport or driving license. Other European countries may have similar prepaid cards but may also require resident status and electronic identity / credit inquiry. "Agreed. I use to fly cross country every other week and depending on whose price was lower, I could go either VA or AA. VA's seats, in flight entertainment and food options, timeliness, cleanliness and attendant hotness completely blows away AA. AA's coach seats are the same things I sat in flying to Florida when I was 12. They still do in-flight movies on busted-up CRTs over the center aisle. I'd fly Virgin America everywhere if I could.  That being said, I *did* have one of my greatest travel experiences ever arise when flying to Turkey on AA and losing my passport en route (while still in the US, fortunately), stranding me in an airport on Christmas night. A couple of AA personnel went above, beyond, over and out of their way to get me to where I needed to be. Seriously, it's one of these stories that's so improbable yet brilliant that any ad exec would instantly set up the ""satisfied customer"" commercial shoot as soon as they heard it. I wrote letters to AMR and every manager from the terminal on up that I could find to talk these guys up, and never heard peep back from their managers. I only hope these guys got *something* out of it besides the satisfaction of saving my dumb ass." "We don't seem to have (m)any expats or Australians on the site yet, but I'll share what I have learned.  I'm taking advantage of your profile information listing you as a software developer.   A friend of mine is currently doing a study of national IT professional societies for his MBA project. One of his goals is to understand which funding models are effective in the absence of mandatory licensing.  (Consider: Most developers don't need to be a member of an organization in order to practice.) Such organizations you or others may be familiar with are the British Computer Society (BCS), the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), or in the U.S. the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS). To the point: My friend told me recently that the Australian Computer Society (ACS) makes money by assisting the Australian government in determining immigration eligibility.  So I went to the ACS site and started digging:  ""The Australian Computer Society (ACS)   is the designated professional   assessing authority for persons   seeking to apply for Skilled Migration   as IT (Computing) Professionals [...]"" See ACS's Pre-application Skills Assessment (PASA) page.  That page also links out to the Australian Government's Department of Immigration and Citizenship, in particular to a document titled General Skilled Migration (PDF).  Here are some interesting points I discovered, relating just to fees: The government recommends if you do want professional help to use a registered migration agent.  There will be fees for such an agent.  See MARA - What does it cost to use an Agent?  Currently: AUD1500 - AUD4000, or ~ £850 - ~ £2270. There will be a fee for the immigration application process itself. See Professionals and other Skilled Migrants visa charges - outside Australia.  Currently: total of AUD 6035, or ~ £3420. Also: ""You also need to have your skills   assessed by the relevant assessing   authority as suitable for working in   your nominated occupation.""  (page 7) ... and you need to do that before you even apply.  The ACS Costs and Charges page shows a cost of AUD 400, or ~ £225, for the PASA (General) application. So, I think the answer is yes, you'd certainly want to have ample savings to cover the red tape stuff; perhaps ~ £6000 judging from the above alone.  Add your travel, moving, and living expenses, etc. Best of luck!  Australia sounds exciting.  (Have you considered Canada? ;-)" You're most definitely being scammed. You're being asked all the information required to steal your identity and take over your bank account. And Austria is land-locked, it has no west coast (or any coast, for that matter). "To trade stocks in India, you need a copy of your pan card, address proof(passport or driving license/electricity bill), income tax return (if you are trading futures & options and currencies), and a cancelled cheque from the bank. You will also need to sign across your recent photographs, and require various other forms from a brokerage house which need to be signed in the brokers presence. If your stock broker trusts you, and you have all these documents, then you CAN open a DEMAT account in India by signing and sending him all these documents. Otherwise you CANNOT, as every single form states that ""this particular document was signed in my presence"", and the stock broker needs to sign under that clause.  Chances are, if you live abroad, no broker will ever trust you with any kind of margin, and therefore cannot make profits from you, so they will not agree to open your account." According to the instructions to the form - yes, you do need an ITIN. Line 6.   .... If you do not have an SSN and are not eligible to get one, you must   get an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). To apply for   an ITIN, file Form W-7 with the IRS. It usually takes 4-6 weeks to get   an ITIN.