Keeping a UK bank account

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Dec 19th 2006, 5:15 pm

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Re: Keeping a UK bank account

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat

I bank with First Direct. They have happily kept my account open, send correspondence to my Canadian address and let me use my credit card. I did spin it to them that I was moving to Canada for an undetermined period which could be forever or could be n years. The only potential issue with FD is their announcment that one needs to keep GBP1500 in the account or pay a tenner a month. So far not a problem but could be in the future.

If you read the full conditions on the website you'll see you only need to open a savings account to by-pass the tenner a month service fee.

Dec 27th 2006, 3:31 pm

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Re: Keeping a UK bank account

I kept our UK joint account going and used my OH's parents address - the branch know where we are, but don't seem that bothered about it! I just told them we didn't know if we would be back in a month or a year and they understood.