In the Muslim community, we have a phrase for the phenomenon of many of us getting debanked: "Banking while Muslim"[0][1]. LaunchGood was debanked a few years ago and really had to struggle to survive[2][3].
My own startup was threatened to be kicked off Stripe with just 24 hours of notice. It took an exhausting effort and connections with employees inside Stripe to escalate our case to get our case re-reviewed. Google Payments for the Play Store halted payment processing randomly and sent me a message demanding to get copies of my passport and other details. When I sent it, they said they'd respond in 72-96 hours and just came back saying they needed the same document again even after I sent it. This repeated several times. Every time I contacted them, they came back with an automated response saying that they'd look at my message. After I asked for escalation to an account specialist, the specialist said they'd get back to me in 96 hours. That situation also took escalations with friends at Google to get sorted out in the end, but not until we spent two weeks churning subscribers and losing revenue.
My own startup was threatened to be kicked off Stripe with just 24 hours of notice. It took an exhausting effort and connections with employees inside Stripe to escalate our case to get our case re-reviewed. Google Payments for the Play Store halted payment processing randomly and sent me a message demanding to get copies of my passport and other details. When I sent it, they said they'd respond in 72-96 hours and just came back saying they needed the same document again even after I sent it. This repeated several times. Every time I contacted them, they came back with an automated response saying that they'd look at my message. After I asked for escalation to an account specialist, the specialist said they'd get back to me in 96 hours. That situation also took escalations with friends at Google to get sorted out in the end, but not until we spent two weeks churning subscribers and losing revenue.
[0]: https://ispu.org/banking-while-muslim/
[1]: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bankingwhilemuslim&src=typed...
[2]: https://www.thefp.com/p/debanking-america-melania-barron-tru...
[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190430201629/https://tinylette...