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Bank & Build Credit
Open accounts without an SSN and build U.S. credit from zero.
Most U.S. credit-building products were designed assuming you arrive with an SSN and a thin credit file. Newcomers often have neither — but you can still open insured bank accounts using a passport, matrícula consular, or ITIN, and there are deliberate steps to build a U.S. credit score from scratch. The tools below match you to banks that accept the IDs you actually have, and lay out a 12–24 month credit-building roadmap based on your starting point.