# Non Resident Bank Account **URL:** \ **Category:** Finances\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/non-resident-bank-account/25661 "2020-07-26T04:54:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nomad3](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7993a0/32.png) [@Nomad3](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Nomad3)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/non-resident-bank-account/25661/1 "2020-07-26T04:54:34Z")
Can a non-resident, living in US, open a Portuguese bank account? Furthermore, can I open it from US or do I have to be physically present in Portugal to open? I don’t have the TIN either. ---
**Author:** ![johnniewalkerwisdom](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@johnniewalkerwisdom](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/johnniewalkerwisdom)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/non-resident-bank-account/25661/2 "2020-07-27T21:25:16Z")
I believe you can open online with Activobank but you’ll need a NIiF. You send scanned docs. You can get a non- resident NIF by emailing a financas office with passport and proof of address. Activobank requires an initial deposit of €500. If you aren’t an EU citizen i was advised by financas that you need a fiscal representative. Here’s the skinny on getting NIF from my financas email Um cidadão estrangeiro residente em país terceiro (isto é, não pertencente à União Europeia ou aos seguintes países do Espaço Económico Europeu: Noruega, Islândia e Liechtenstein) que queira efectuar inscrição como contribuinte em Portugal deve apresentar junto de qualquer serviço de finanças/loja do cidadão, documento de identificação ou Passaporte apresentar documento com a morada no país de origem e deverá nomear um representante que obrigatoriamente tem de ser residente em Portugal (deverá juntar documento a aceitar a nomeação como representante, devidamente assinado e junta cópia da identificação). Um cidadão estrangeiro residente em país pertencente à União Europeia ou aos seguintes países do Espaço Económico Europeu: Noruega, Islândia e Liechtenstein, deverá apresentar documento de identificação ou passaporte assim como documento com a morada no país de origem. Informo que face às restrições impostas pelo Covid 19, deverá preferencialmente efectuar o pedido através do sistema informático do e-balcão no portal das finanças, em alternativa utilizar este endereço de e-mail ou, caso esteja obrigado a nomear representante, o e-mail do serviço de finanças do seu representante. Deverá anexar, devidamente digitalizados, os documentos acima identificados. ---
**Author:** ![Nomad3](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7993a0/32.png) [@Nomad3](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/Nomad3)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/non-resident-bank-account/25661/3 "2020-07-28T19:45:34Z")
Thank you! Will look into it. ---
**Author:** ![anon6132153](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anon6132153](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/anon6132153)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/non-resident-bank-account/25661/4 "2020-07-29T06:21:35Z")
I think Swiss citizens are excluded from European agreements as a punishment from Brussel because we did not join the EU money disaster(euro for all). ---
**Author:** ![pekola.samip](https://community.nomadgate.com/user_avatar/community.nomadgate.com/pekola.samip/32/3846_2.png) [@pekola.samip](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/pekola.samip)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/non-resident-bank-account/25661/5 "2020-08-01T10:44:38Z")
[Portugal bank information](https://www.internations.org/go/moving-to-portugal/banks-taxes)