ByeByeJohnny
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Not really. Many investors who are not US domiciled have accounts in the US and invest directly. Unless the investor domicile is directly shown to be non-US the identification is difficult. Further quite a quantity of non-US ownership is obscured anyway because of US registered investment vehicles. In theory all this should be inconsequential. In practice it is fraught.
I spent some seriously irritating time trying to resolve precisely such issues for regulatory compliance purposes. Much depends on accurate self-identification. Bizarrely, anybody who wants to invest directly as a non-US person properly self-identifying is faced with considerable bureaucratic burden. Only the cheaters have it easy.
OK, I admit it. I'm a bit jaded.
Not sure exactly what you are discussing but here in Scandinavia it's as easy to buy Tesla, any other US stock, as well as stock from many other foreign markets, as our own stocks are. Not sure if they can bee identified as owned directly by me or just by my brokerage. In either case it should be obvious to whoever needs to know, if anyone, that they are owned by someone from outside the US.