Banks in the Netherlands have said that they will not close the accounts of what are known in that country as "unintentional Americans" for the rest of this year, the country's Minister of Finance, Wopke Hoekstra, told fellow lawmakers on Tuesday – even if these individuals fail to provide these banks with such information as a valid U.S. Social Security Number or Tax Identification Number, as requested. 

Two of the Netherlands' largest banks, ABN AMRO and Rabobank, are also prepared to close the bank accounts of "unintentional Americans" if these individuals "do not cooperate with the U.S. requirements" that they provide tax information numbers, such as a Social Security number, or evidence that they have entered into the U.S. system for relinquishing their citizenships, according to a report published on Friday on the news website NRC.nl.

Some so-called accidental Americans, who are citizens and residents of the Netherlands and who have been struggling to maintain their bank accounts there owing to their lack of a U.S. “tax information number,” have run into a new problem, a Dutch news organization has reported: The recent closure of the American consulate there, in response to the coronavirus crisis.

Dutch Parliamentarians are scheduled to meet with Netherlands-resident so-called 'accidental Americans' next Wednesday, to discuss the continuing problem of banks in the Netherlands that have been freezing the bank accounts of some such 'accidentals'.