I just got back from a lyod's tsb bank...they told me a a US based passport and a proof of residency is enough to open an account. I asked her if a utility bill is okay, she said its fine. They do not consider cable internet a utility bill but will accept a landline phone bill.

Does anyone have any experience of how difficult it is for a foreigner to get a landline phone? Currently my family here has a line and they have no problem with me switching it to under my name...just wondering if I would run into any difficulties just switching the name on the account to my name.

How difficult is it to transfer money from a bank account to pokerstars or other sites? I was hoping to multi site pokerstars, pkr, and party poker.