Yeah, I remembered filling up something like this when I opened my a/c with financial cafe when I was a student. At that time your days are exempt and you are a non resident. Once on H1 you become a resident for tax purposes and my guess is you do not need this. Atleast they did not ask me to fill it when I opened an IRA with Scottrade. -- --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:31:33 From: Kiran Nagaraja <knagaraj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: financeboyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: >Some of u might have already filled this form - required >for opening a trading account (declares ur alien status >- yet again :( , and whether ur eligible for certain tax treaty benefits). >What are tax treaty benefits details for us? > >Here's a link to the form : >http://www.etrade.ca/estation/pdf/w8ben.pdf > >Thanks >-Kiran > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005