Money Order in the UK

[TattooedAesa 0]

I don't have access to my US bank account other than a Debit/credit card.... I have to file at the chicago lock box and they want a money order in US dollars... I have NO clue where to buy one here... I have checked my bank and they said they will do a international bank transfer something or other and give me it in US dollars... do you know if USCIS will accept this? or where i can get a money order from? Just want to make sure I get the right thing before i pay the bank £20 for it and its not accepted

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

I don't have access to my US bank account other than a Debit/credit card.... I have to file at the chicago lock box and they want a money order in US dollars... I have NO clue where to buy one here... I have checked my bank and they said they will do a international bank transfer something or other and give me it in US dollars... do you know if USCIS will accept this? or where i can get a money order from? Just want to make sure I get the right thing before i pay the bank £20 for it and its not accepted

Do you have a parent in the US that can write a check for you? Then you figure out how to reimburse them?

[Darnell 8,479]

does your mom in the usa have access to any checkbooks of yours on that usa bank? if so, have her send you a check from that bank to yer uk address, unfilled.

alternatively - your bank might be one of those that handles 'electronic payments' with paper check printing - if that's the case, have the check made (with the proper 'pay to the order of' filled out by the bank) then have the 'bill payment' sent to yer mom's address.

alternatively - your bank can issue a money order or certified cashier's check - but i suggest to you that you talk to a bank officer at the branch closest to yer mom - you'll want this thing produced locally, and you'll want yer mom to pick it up, and send it to you.

[BBCC 16]

The USCIS will not accept a UK money order drawn on US funds (in US$).

We made the same mistake and submitted a Canadian money order drawn on US funds. It was returned with RFE and we had to resubmit the I-130 package.

Usually, the US citizen sponsor is the US. If they aren't, they need someone in the US to fetch either a US$ money order purchased in the US or write a personal check.

In my case, I was in Canada at the time but I still had my US checkbook to resubmit the check (yeah, I figure out only after the RFE that they would accept personal checks).

Hope that helps.

Good luck!

Edited March 17, 2012 by BBCC

[TattooedAesa 0]

Thank you guys, I will start trying to get ahold of my parents tomorrow, just kinda aggrivated cause I pulled the money out of my US bank account LOL thinking I could get something that would pass here.. ohh well I will call my mom and see if she can write me a check and send it my way... it doesn't matter whos name is on the check I am assuming... if she can get me a check written I will just have her express mail it to my London address... Thank you guys for all your help I am just so ahhhhhhh! I am leaving the country in 2 months and this has set me behind by a month on the paperwork to get my hubby home with me

[Darnell 8,479]

glad yer gonna get it sorted, todayish.