I like your happy places. Particularly the pic of Brendon's shiny feet. In fact, I may now be in love with it.
So, I've never had much experience with transfering money between countries, but my parents do it a fair bit (between UK and NZ) and also I have a few international student friends and what I've gathered is:
Some banks are complete bastards when it comes to letting international students open accounts, but if you contact Trinity, they should have a list of ones that will give you lovely, shiny, studenty accounts (most of which come with interest free overdrafts, which is pretty handy). Then you can either a) deposit a cheque in that account- although there may be regulations about how much the cheque can be made out for, it being from a foreign account etc, etc, or- and this seems to be what most people do- just set up a transfer from your current account into your shiny new one, once you have the account details for it. It should be a case of a simple phonecall to your current bank, and you can probably arrange with them everything in advance, just leaving the account details blank. You could probably even set up a regular direct debit from your current account into your new account if you're like me and would spend everything in a month if I got it all in one go.
The point of this is- it's a fairly simple process, and I would go into your local branch to talk to someone about it. From what I've been told by people, it's something best to discuss in person, since its easier to stare blankly at a person and make them repeat themselves and websites and phone banking.
Er, sorry, my inner girl guide takes over whenever people ask questions and I feel the need to ramble at them.
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Date: 2007-09-01 08:49 pm (UTC)So, I've never had much experience with transfering money between countries, but my parents do it a fair bit (between UK and NZ) and also I have a few international student friends and what I've gathered is:
Some banks are complete bastards when it comes to letting international students open accounts, but if you contact Trinity, they should have a list of ones that will give you lovely, shiny, studenty accounts (most of which come with interest free overdrafts, which is pretty handy). Then you can either a) deposit a cheque in that account- although there may be regulations about how much the cheque can be made out for, it being from a foreign account etc, etc, or- and this seems to be what most people do- just set up a transfer from your current account into your shiny new one, once you have the account details for it. It should be a case of a simple phonecall to your current bank, and you can probably arrange with them everything in advance, just leaving the account details blank. You could probably even set up a regular direct debit from your current account into your new account if you're like me and would spend everything in a month if I got it all in one go.
The point of this is- it's a fairly simple process, and I would go into your local branch to talk to someone about it. From what I've been told by people, it's something best to discuss in person, since its easier to stare blankly at a person and make them repeat themselves and websites and phone banking.
Er, sorry, my inner girl guide takes over whenever people ask questions and I feel the need to ramble at them.
Did I mention I love Brendon's shiny shoes.