Vent…
Sometimes the UK sux big time…..like when as a British citizen, you return from 5 years in the USA and will they allow you to set up a new bank account…will they bugger….!
Even a bank I used to have a business account with will not take me on, the reason…..because I can not PROVE where I live. I have no bills in my name at the address where I am staying. I am also not on the electoral register so they can’t look me up there either.
Now, I understand the issues with money laundering and fraud so the banks have to be careful but..no i mean BUT…lets put it this way…
I am 18, I have just left school, I am looking for a job, I am a British citizen, I have money to put into the account, I have a British passport, a UK drivers licence, I want to open a bank account please………..
Get lost….you can not PROVE where you live……
So how does an 18 year old get a bank account if they have never had one before?
How does a 36 year old who has had many bank accounts in the UK get a bank account?
If anyone knows please let me know as I want to open one in the country I was born in, it’s not too much to ask is it..?!
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March 20th, 2005 at 7:14 am
This is too bad.
If you have a UK passport, and a UK driver’s license. That should do it.
In the Philippines on my visit there with my friend who was working with me in the US she tried to get a bank account there in her home town.
It was a comedy the way they treated her- she’s a citizen there.
I was with her and employees kept coming out of the back looking at me.
They finally told her they were worried about money laundering.
She couldn’t get the account.
It was really maddening, but her husband and I sat there in the lobby laughing our butts off. I don’t think they liked that either-
but what else do you do?