# Unsupported countries

**We cannot accept as clients&#x20;**<mark style="color:red;">**US persons, Russian citizens**</mark>**, as well as residents of:**

* Afghanistan
* Angola
* Bangladesh
* Belarus
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Central African Republic
* Cuba
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Haiti
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Lebanon
* Libya
* Mainland China (Hong Kong and Taiwan accepted)
* Mali
* Myanmar
* Nicaragua
* Niger
* North Korea
* Russia
* Somalia
* Sudan
* South Sudan
* Syria
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Venezuela
* Yemen
* Zimbabwe

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### What are US persons?

You qualify as a US person if you correspond to any of the following:

* Resident in the United States
* Citizen of the United States (including green card holders)
* A person having spent a sufficient amount of time in the United States within the last 3 years
* Involved in any partnership or corporation organized or incorporated under the laws of the United States
* Involved in any estate of which any executor or administrator is a US person
* Involved in any trust of which any trustee is a US person
* Any agency or branch of a foreign entity located in the United States
* Any non-discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held by a dealer or other fiduciary for the benefit or account of a US person
* Any discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held by a dealer or other fiduciary organized, incorporated, or (if an individual) resident in the United States
* Any partnership or corporation if:
* Organized or incorporated under the laws of any foreign jurisdiction
* Formed by a US person principally for the purpose of investing in securities not registered under the Act, unless it is organized or incorporated, and owned, by accredited investors (as defined in Rule 501(a)) who are not natural persons, estates or trusts.
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