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Originally Posted by April_Ryan
Thank you!
I received the job offer yesterday and i tis quite a good package. I am going to accept it.
One of the things I have to do is open a bank account in UK.
-Does anyone know what documentation I'll need?
-Is there a way to open it from here (Spain)?
I would like to have an account which let me have the capital in several currencies and retrieve money with no commission in EUR, US$ and GBP. I've heard of Citybank.
- Any ideas?
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Its always a bit of a pain with the banks as you normally need to provide utility bills etc to show where you live!!! The UK are backward with banking. I tried to open a Euro account and found it quite difficult with HSBC. To transfer Euros out here to Spain with them costs £25 a time.
So I kept a UK account, opened a Spanish account, and then used something called
Sun-Pay - Online Global Money Transfers made Easy You can transfer your sterling to the Sunpay account, transfer it to euros within the account, and then transfer the euros to your spanish account. It costs 10 euros per transfer so you need to plan your transfers to make the most of it.
I dont think you should contemplate UK citizenship ...... unless for some reaon you want to give up your Spanish citizenship. As an EU resident you can go there and work there, in much the same way I have moved to your homeland
