From: this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com (chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: UK bank issuing credit card for US
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:01:08 +0100

Kendrick Kerwin Chua  wrote:

> Having lost all faith in American banking institutions, I'm looking across
> the pond to see if there's a bank in the EU or the UK that's willing to
> issue me a credit card here in the US. 

I think that will be difficult in the UK. For a start, you would usually
need a UK address, as well as proof of it, and many banks (though
certainly not all) will require a certain period of residency in the UK
before you'll be considered. Then there is credit scoring etc. 

As a US citizen, I assume there are reasons that you can't get a credit
card there- and you don't have to go into them, of course. However, they
do tend to throw them at you in the US- I was offered many while I lived
there.

If there are credit issues, then look into the myriad 'deposit' credit
cards, which many banks offer (albeit with often punitive charges ) for
people with no, or bad, credit.

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