My bank is Bank of America and they're now telling me that they're going to take 6-8 WEEKS or more with it.
And, too, I used to send in Canadian checks all the time (back in 2005-2007) and they'd clear within like 2 weeks. Not almost two MONTHS.
I am literally sitting in an airport with NO money left other than that amount I sent in last week. To last me until, whiten 6-8 WEEKS??? I can't go that long without EATING but it looks like I'll have to try!!!
Cheques take that kind of time from France into Bank of America and there was NO other way to get it there. Literally every other App known to man, is allowed in either country or the other but not both! I was able to set up a PayPal account on the French bank account but the one on the US bank account has long since been "frozen" and "locked" and a lot of bullcrapshit. And there's no way of taking the US bank account OFF of that frozen PayPal account and setting up another PayPal account with that one because, like I said, PayPal has it frozen and won't let me delete accounts off it.
So I will probably in the next 6 weeks or sooner, starve to death.
I'm not getting enough work to stay alive. And with two Master's degrees, to boot. And translation skills in 4 languages even if, due to my Stroke, I can't SPEAK any of them worth a damn anymore.
If I could MOVE from this damned Airport and get a Visa I'd go to Russia and be with my ex-husband at least if it's still Communist we'd have a place to LIVE.
French Foodie wrote:
Hi Gregory,
I do this on a fairly regular basis as well (only difference being the other bank is in Canada). Believe it or not, I have found that the cheapest way is to write myself a cheque and mail it to my branch in Canada. I discussed this with my bank manager in Canada before I moved, so they do not charge me conversion fees, and even though the cheques are "foreign", they clear them in a few days as opposed to a few weeks.
I find the French postal system quite fast (compared to Canada, anyway), and my cheque usually arrives within a week.
HTH
Mara