Applied for AOS - Bank is asking am I resident alien or non resident?

[minglevi 0]

I have applied for AOS after marriage to U.S.citizen and I have SSN now.

Bank is asking me if I am resident alien or non resident alien?

To what I read on authenticate site is am not resident alien because I had not been in USA for more than 183 days.

But I also read on IRS website that for tax purposes I can file jointly with US citizen spouse as resident alien.

Now when I went to open an account the manager asked me if am resident alien or non resident alien?

So when bank manager is asking this question does that mean he is asking that in connection with tax related situation where I can say

am resident alien?

Am really confused.

[angeladams 0]

they ask because if you are not a resident yet they need to have a non usa address to put as a secondary address on the account.

i had to give them my fathers address in the UK to open my bank account bacause i dont have a SSN yet.