Prohibited Country List

We only support Alpaca for opening new brokerage accounts currently (though we’re working on adding more brokers).

Here’s a list of all the countries that Alpaca doesn’t support:

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Burundi
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Belarus
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Cuba
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • North Macedonia (known as Macedonia until 2019)
  • Myanmar (formerly Burma)
  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
  • Russia
  • Sudan
  • Somalia
  • Serbia
  • South Sudan
  • Syria
  • Ukraine
  • Venezuela
  • Yemen
  • Zimbabwe

Which brokerages are expected to be next?

We’re prioritizing the new release (New Release: Progress Tracker - #16 by yazin) after which we’ll focus our attention on adding more brokers.