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I am dual citizen Canada & US. Need to set up for US where business is but I'm in Canada

hrprince92 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:17:53 GMT

Hey, I have both Canadian and American citizenship but I live in Canada. I'm trying to set up a square account for an American company (that is mostly an online company) but if I sign up on the square.com site it needs my physical address and I can't put a Canadian address and if I sign up on the square.ca site it also won't let me finish the process because (I can't exactly remember but I think it wouldn't accept the address of the company in the States).

Re: I am dual citizen Canada & US. Need to set up for US where business is but I'm in Canada

VanKalkerFarms — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:20:55 GMT

Put the address of the company that is in the united states, rather than your personal address.

Re: I am dual citizen Canada & US. Need to set up for US where business is but I'm in Canada

hrprince92 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:22:43 GMT

I did try that but then it needs my physical address for taxing information. Do I put the company address again?

Re: I am dual citizen Canada & US. Need to set up for US where business is but I'm in Canada

VanKalkerFarms — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:29:57 GMT

While I have not done a multi-country business I would think the business address is what would be entered there as that is where taxes would be collected.

Re: I am dual citizen Canada & US. Need to set up for US where business is but I'm in Canada

hrprince92 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:59:46 GMT

Ok, we are using my Canadian bank account for things. Does that make a difference?

Re: I am dual citizen Canada & US. Need to set up for US where business is but I'm in Canada

EJ_ — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 19:21:27 GMT

Hi @hrprince92

The Square account that you create will only be compatible in the country that you activated it in.

So if you're creating a U.S. account, you'll need to be located in the U.S. during creation, and also have both a physical U.S. address along with a U.S. bank account.

The best thing to do here is to have your business partners in the U.S. create the account using their U.S. information.