Open Interactive Brokerage account as US citizen. What address to use?

Investing / Brokers
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Hi all,

I finally decided to open Interactive Brokerage account to invest and to exchange money from CHF to USD. Background, I am a US citizen and current work and live in Switzerland. I still have my parents address in the US that I can use with no problem. Question, should i use my current Switzerland address and open the Interactive Brokerage international account (I believe it’s the UK version for Swiss people) or should i just open the Interactive Brokerage US version using my parents US address? Do you know the advantages and disadvantages for one way versus the other? Thank you so much!

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I’d definitely not open a US account because you would be lying about your address when using your parents US address, which I imagine could lead to a lot of problems.

I’m not aware of any advantages of the US version and as far as I know it should be no problem to change it to the US one should you decide to go back at one point in the future.