He's in Canada. The banking community has been imposing capital control measures on banks internationally. They have been doing this gradually and at different rates per region.
The closer you are to a center of power, the less it affects you, since that is where they will apply their rules last (the US is the queen (chess reference) in their power games, so they will wait to see the repercussions in other countries before attempting to impose it in the US)
Having live in Costa Rica, you can only open a bank account if you have:
Photo ID
2 Utility bills to your name
A certified statement by a public accountant that your source of funding is real
Even then, you can only move transactions based on your historical transactions or based on your historical earnings (as proven by a certified public accountant's letter) AND any large transactions require your explaining exactly why it happened, what for, when, where, who, etc.
That is why many international people didn't find the chase banking restrictions that impressive; we knew it was coming. This has been a long time in the making.
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