Relay accepts U.S. entities with owners holding non-U.S. citizenship as well as being based outside of the U.S. However, there are a few exceptions per the terms set by our banking partner.
We are currently unable to open accounts for business owners with the following countries/regions of citizenship/residency:
- Afghanistan
- Belarus
- Bosnia And Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Congo-Kinshasa)
- Cuba
- Ethiopia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Iran
- Iraq
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mali
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Ukraine
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe