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# List of Restricted Countries

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We're continuously expanding the countries we serve. We recommend checking the eligibility of your country before signing up or promising a client a payment.
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### Payments in USDC

**Available globally.**

Sorbet's USDC payment feature works worldwide. You can send an invoice and have your client pay you directly in USDC, wherever they are — there are no country limits on the paying side, and no minimum or maximum.

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The country rules below still apply to **you**. You need an eligible Sorbet account to receive USDC in the first place, so if you're based in one of the prohibited countries listed here, USDC isn't a way around that.
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### Multi-Currency Accounts

Sorbet offers multi-currency accounts that let you send and receive funds in more than 50 currencies.

To get started you'll complete verification to open your account. Once approved, you can transact globally through our regulated payment infrastructure partner. We can onboard businesses and individuals across most countries that aren't under OFAC sanctions.

Eligibility depends on where you're based, what your business does, and the policies of the banks behind each currency. It can change — check before you rely on it.

#### Prohibited countries

We can't onboard entities or individuals domiciled in, operating from, or primarily owned by persons in the following jurisdictions:

* Afghanistan
* Belarus
* Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
* Cuba
* Gaza Strip
* Iran
* Iraq
* Lebanon
* Libya
* Myanmar
* North Korea
* Russian Federation
* Somalia
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Syria
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* Venezuela
* West Bank (Occupied Palestinian Territory)
* Yemen

**New York State.** We also can't currently serve customers based in New York, although the rest of the United States is fine. This is a licensing restriction rather than a sanctions one.

#### Countries with partial restrictions

Some countries aren't prohibited outright but have limits on what they can use:

* **Around 90 countries are reviewed case by case** rather than approved automatically — including Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey, the UAE, Indonesia and South Africa. Most applications are approved; the decision is just made by a person and takes longer.
* **Euro and pound sterling are unavailable** in Central African Republic, China, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mali, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
* **US dollar domestic services** — ACH, domestic wire, RTP and US dollar account details — are unavailable in Algeria, Burundi, China, Guinea-Bissau, Japan and Tunisia.
* **Reusable payment details can't be issued** in 16 countries including China, Kenya, Nepal, Qatar and Morocco. You can still get paid there, just with one-off instructions rather than fixed details.

The full country-by-country breakdown is on the Country Eligibility page.

#### Industry specific restrictions

Regardless of location, we can't support entities involved in unlawful activity, fraud, counterfeit goods, drugs or pharmaceuticals, cannabis, tobacco and nicotine, gambling, adult content, weapons, precious metals and gemstones, multi-level marketing, collections agencies, bail bonds, investment or credit services, charities and NGOs, or unlicensed money transmission.

Separately, a number of legitimate activities — money services, lending, foreign exchange, escrow, digital asset exchange and third-party payment processing among them — must be **declared during onboarding**. These are assessed case by case and many are approved. Failing to declare one is what causes an account to be closed.

See [Restricted Businesses & Activities](/sorbet/currencies-and-countries/restricted-businesses-and-activities.md) for the full lists.