{"id":47201,"date":"2022-05-31T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/?page_id=47201"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:57:48","slug":"alternate-id","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/ukraine\/alternate-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees without acknowledged ID"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acknowledged and valid ID<\/h2>\n

Last updated on 30 September 2022<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

A payment service provider in the EU must carefully identify and verify each new account holder, based on an official EU-recognized and valid identity document. For Ukrainians lawfully residing in the EU under normal circumstances, that is a valid passport in English.<\/p>\n

However, the conditions in Ukraine are currently far from normal and some adult refugees from that country who want to open a payment account in the Netherlands appear not to have a valid English-language passport. Therefore those refugees initially could not open a payment account at most banks. Meanwhile, many banks were able expand the range of IDs for new account applicants with additional types of ID from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Without a BSN<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

At Bitsafe<\/a> and bunq<\/a> Ukrainians with the right documents can apply for a payment account without a BSN* (Dutch social services number). Bunq requires a new customer to register a BSN within three months. <\/span>Bitsafe never requires a BSN.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Note:<\/strong> With these two providers you need their mobile apps on a modern smartphone to apply for an account.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Valid Ukrainian driver's license<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

With Bitsafe<\/a> a refugee can apply for a payment account using their mobile app on a modern smartphone, with just a valid Ukrainian driver's license (without a BSN).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acknowledged and valid ID Last updated on 30 September 2022 A payment service provider in the EU must carefully identify and verify each new account holder, based on an official EU-recognized and valid identity document. For Ukrainians lawfully residing in the EU under normal circumstances, that is a valid passport in English. However, the conditions in Ukraine are currently far from normal and some adult refugees from that country who want to open a payment account in the Netherlands appear not to have a valid English-language passport. Therefore those refugees initially could not open a payment account at most banks. Meanwhile, many banks were able expand the range of IDs for new account applicants with additional types of ID from Ukraine. Without a BSN At Bitsafe and bunq Ukrainians with the right documents can apply for a payment account without…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48484,"parent":46125,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47201","page","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47201"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48346,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47201\/revisions\/48346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archief.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}