I agree. You have to remember that my husband is Dominican. When we had to reopen the account after inactivity, an account in existence for 10 years, they asked for ID, and he gave them his cedula. I only had drivers license with me. They demanded passports, so we went back the next day with them. Well, the moment they saw this Dominican with a US passport, everything changed. A million questions about income, and how much social security was going to be deposited monthly, blah blah blah. He told them several times that our primary residence and bank was in the USA, and you could see the wheels turning and the concern that we were trying to put one over on them. I never opened my mouth, just watched the whole thing in amazement. The “bring in your passports, it will take 5 minutes to reopen with that verification” turned into over 2 hours of interrogation. I agree, something has changed.
And therefore the point to take from this is, in case of dual citizenship, never use your US passport for banking anywhere but US.