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How about an ITIN? Same length as an SSN, let's stripe find a blank credit history. I would ask the stripe guys about it.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,...

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Yep, you don't need to be a citizen or resident to do that. I have a Brazilian friend (Diego Gomes, founder at EverWrite) who went through the whole foreigner-incorporating-in-the-US-without-living-here thing and is posting details about it on their blog (the next post is exactly about ITIN and merchant accounts): http://myeverwrite.com/blog/.

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