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Originally Posted by chrosmond
Please help, I need some urgent help. I need a bankers draft for 25 June for our Permanent Residency fee (CAN$980) altho' I'm going on holiday on 13 June so I need it before then. We've tried a few banks and they're all a bit edgy because of money laundering rules and also they can't be drawn on a Canadian bank. We've found a foreign exchange outfit who might do it but now they're umming and aahing, what did anyone else do? (I'm still in the UK by the way)
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Being as you are sending it to the Canadian Authorities would it not be better to do a direct credit traansfer directly into their bank account (which is how I do all my business transactions worldwide) as it is coming from a traceable bank it bypasses the money laundering rules and for the same reason it's destination is traceable and please remember that a money order is NOT guarenteed funds it is only guarenteed that the funds are there at the time it was issued. This is always a good point to make when finding an alternative method of payment. By the way to do a BACs transfer you just need the other parties sort code, account number and a reference number and usually costs around £30 another alternative is to phone them with your debit/credit card details.
Chris