Hmmmm

[Khal_Drogo 50]

Alright, so please bear with me, as I'm sure that:

A: this has been asked before

B: it may be a stupid question

Is there any way I can get my wife, who does not have her SSN or tax ID number yet, onto my U.S. bank account jointly?

I do know the answer is most likely, "Heck no," but I figured might as well ask the experts.

[CHarvey80 72]

My understanding is that

1 - She has to be present when you are doing the paper work at the bank.

2 - She has to have at least a valid visa

[X Factor 1,112]

My bank stated that our marriage license along with goverment mail addressed to her at our home address would be enough to put her on my account.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Yes you can as long as she is with you in the US.

Valid visa (as the previous poster stated was "required") wasn't questioned in my case. I added my mother who was here visiting to my Wells Fargo bank account the day she arrived to visit for 3 weeks. I had opened another account so that she could carry a US bank card and not cash while she was here. I transferred some money via paypal to that account prior to her visit as well. Then the day before she left we transferred the money out, shut-down the account (without penalties) and she kept the card as a souvenir

In my mothers case they needed her passport and copy of her drivers license for 2 forms of ID. Foreign license didn't matter.

[Khal_Drogo 50]

Ah. Well, she is not here in the U.S.

The visa interview is scheduled for March 7th, and even so, I'm deployed, so I wouldn't be able to do anything unless it was over the phone anyways.

Well, I Guess that answers that.

[Glenn and Milena 1]

Alright, so please bear with me, as I'm sure that:

A: this has been asked before

B: it may be a stupid question

Is there any way I can get my wife, who does not have her SSN or tax ID number yet, onto my U.S. bank account jointly?

I do know the answer is most likely, "Heck no," but I figured might as well ask the experts.

Yes you can they will use her passport #

[NikLR 13,227]

Depends on the bank. My husband is with USAA and they added me. They needed my passport number, a w8ben form, 2 pieces of govt ID and a signature. Everything was emailed to them. Sometimes a branch will say no while another branch will say yes. It generally can only be on a non-interest bearing account (like a chequing [checking] account)

[Xanax 349]

It all depends on the bank. I have read here about people adding their spouses before they even got to the US , some who needed a certain document , some who wouldn't do it without an SSN etc. My bank would not add me without an SSN no matter what we did / say / brought in.

[Fernandez19 1]

Alright, so please bear with me, as I'm sure that:

A: this has been asked before

B: it may be a stupid question

Is there any way I can get my wife, who does not have her SSN or tax ID number yet, onto my U.S. bank account jointly?

I do know the answer is most likely, "Heck no," but I figured might as well ask the experts.

I was able to get my husband a bank account jointly with me just using his visa on his passport at TD Bank