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3rdragonThe Monday before last, my mom transfered $3,000 to my bank account* so that I could prove to the Spanish Consulate that I do have enough money that I can spend $1000 a month on room and board while in Spain (mind you, my program pays for room and board, but since they aren't covering all of my expenses, I don't have a letter from them saying so, and so I still need to be able to prove to the consulate that I have x amount of money). A week ago I endeavored to request a paper copy of a statement with my current balance and failed (help told me to go to Services | Request Paper Statement - but there was no Request Paper Statement link on the services page). So I called my bank and requested a paper statement, specifically saying that I wanted a statement with my current balance. I didn't say straight out that I didn't want a copy of last month's statement, but current as of May 28th $\neq$ statement from May 9th.
Today a letter arrived from my bank, addressed to Mariam at Capon Way in NorthHampton (not, mind you, North Hampton, which would be understandable, but NorthHampton). The zip code was at least right, as was my box number. But the misspellings may have something to do with the fact that it took a week to get here. I'm impressed that the woman managed to look up my account correctly while misspelling my name. Although, now that I think about it, she did look me up by account number rather than name. Still.
Upon opening the letter, I find my statement from May 9th, which, unsurprisingly, does not contain my current balance and is useless for showing to the Consulate. The next statement isn't until June 9th and wouldn't get here in time. I'm going to call the bank again this afternoon and make it very clear that I would like an official piece of paper showing my current balance (although really, it's not that official-looking; maybe I can get something comparable off of the web site). If not, I'll call my mother again and see if she's found an acceptable wording for the notorized letter saying that she's willing to give me a monthly allowance (this would have been the easiest course of action, but since my mother has no intention of actually giving me a monthly allowance unless I do something ridiculous and run out of money, she didn't want to sign an official piece of paper saying that she will. Which is understandable.
*sigh*
*She tells me that she intends for this to be a loan.
EDIT: After spending far too much time on hold listening to wait-ads (much, much worse than wait music, because they can incorporate bad music, and then you need to pay attention so you know when you finally get through to a real person), I'm fairly certain that I'm being sent the proper pertinent document. Only, it has to be sent to my mother's house, because that's the address the bank has on file for me. A small part of me wants to wail, "But the first woman could send it to school!" and then a larger part of me, a snarky and cynical part replies, "Yeah, but the first woman didn't send you what you asked for. And she didn't spell your name right." And then the rest of me concedes that the snarky and cynical part makes a very good point.
Today a letter arrived from my bank, addressed to Mariam at Capon Way in NorthHampton (not, mind you, North Hampton, which would be understandable, but NorthHampton). The zip code was at least right, as was my box number. But the misspellings may have something to do with the fact that it took a week to get here. I'm impressed that the woman managed to look up my account correctly while misspelling my name. Although, now that I think about it, she did look me up by account number rather than name. Still.
Upon opening the letter, I find my statement from May 9th, which, unsurprisingly, does not contain my current balance and is useless for showing to the Consulate. The next statement isn't until June 9th and wouldn't get here in time. I'm going to call the bank again this afternoon and make it very clear that I would like an official piece of paper showing my current balance (although really, it's not that official-looking; maybe I can get something comparable off of the web site). If not, I'll call my mother again and see if she's found an acceptable wording for the notorized letter saying that she's willing to give me a monthly allowance (this would have been the easiest course of action, but since my mother has no intention of actually giving me a monthly allowance unless I do something ridiculous and run out of money, she didn't want to sign an official piece of paper saying that she will. Which is understandable.
*sigh*
*She tells me that she intends for this to be a loan.
EDIT: After spending far too much time on hold listening to wait-ads (much, much worse than wait music, because they can incorporate bad music, and then you need to pay attention so you know when you finally get through to a real person), I'm fairly certain that I'm being sent the proper pertinent document. Only, it has to be sent to my mother's house, because that's the address the bank has on file for me. A small part of me wants to wail, "But the first woman could send it to school!" and then a larger part of me, a snarky and cynical part replies, "Yeah, but the first woman didn't send you what you asked for. And she didn't spell your name right." And then the rest of me concedes that the snarky and cynical part makes a very good point.
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Date: 3 Jun 2008 10:02 pm (UTC)or email a pdf file if it can't be accessed by you online?
One thing that my job has confirmed to me is that the right and left hands frequently don't know what's going on elsewhere and with the right combo of luck and polite-but-dogged persistence, you might get more.
Good Luck!
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Date: 4 Jun 2008 12:28 pm (UTC)