|
Wayne,
It would appear to be a good idea....certainly the recent experience I have had of wiring money from bank accounts in Europe to the US have been very easy to do and yes there is a cost but it is not significant...within Europe it is even easier.
My suggest would be start an account with somebody like HSBC or even Satander..UBS?...big global banks that have branches all over Europe and the US (via subsiduaries etc) ...it may make it all flow more easily...
Citigroup etc are also common over here, but less 'retail' orientated.
Within Europe it really helps if the bank has international presence...certainly for mine the international wire transfer took about two minutes to organise over the phone and it worked smoothly, the key is naturally for the details of each party to be very clear, so account numbers, branch sort codes, names and addresses are required, in addition the international routing number is needed for all transactions...again the more international the bank the easier this is....
Getting a bank that has a good base in the US is the key.. then you can go in person to the bank to get things moving and trouble shoot if needed.
|