[SteelWheel]

Huh? The issue (at least at present) has nothing to do with the physical location, or ISP from which a user accesses an online poker site. I'm highly confident that if I were a UK customer of Party Poker, I would have no problem accessing Party Poker from a US location/ISP. Anonymizing your internet traffic is not (yet, at least) necessary.

What is necessary, is an apparently legitimate address and bank account in a non-US location. I'm assuming that Canada and the UK are the best options, since there would be no language issues.

The real question is: Is there a way to set something like this up, preferably without having to go to the UK or Canada to do so? I don't think the photo ID thing is the real problem. Here in the US, I could (if I so chose) change my address on a driver's license to a "private mail box" at one of the local packing/shipping stores. One could do the same thing in another country--get a private mail box, and then set up a bank account associated with that "address".

If a photo ID is truly the issue, this would obviously make Canada a better option than UK. But I'd doubt that you need an actual "driver's license". In most states in the US, anyone can get what is essentially a "non-driver license". Just go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, fill out a form, show a utility bill, bank statement, or some such thing, and they'll snap your picture and hand you an official driver's license--except that the "license" clearly states that no driving privileges are conveyed to the bearer. This was the "solution" to the growing problem of non-drivers in the US needing some sort of identification that at least appeared to be more substantial than library cards or college IDs.

I would assume that the provincial governments in Canada have some similar mechanism...but then again, I'm not a Canadian citizen, so I don't know for sure.

So again, I'm asking if anyone in the US has gone through any of these hoops to create the veneer of a "resident" status in Canada, UK, or perhaps Australia or New Zealand?