Anonymous participant 173 If you wish to believe that, it's entirely your prerogative, but there's a reason that when people are being summoned to their bank branch, the bank wants to see your CURRENT visa. I know one person personally who has been given three months to either wrap up their account OR obtain a non-immigrant visa. Bank policy has changed since the money-laundering fiasco, and no bank now wants accounts on their books held by tourists

Anonymous participant 173 It depends on what visa you're on NOW, not when you opened. Many who have switched to DTV from non-immigrant visas are having their accounts closed

@James *******

The OP actually admitted paying money to open the account! How is that speculation?

@Bob *********

I do every day. So I take it you don't have a source?

@Bob *********

I don't know of specific numbers. Do you have a link to your source?

@Bob *********

It depends what the bank investigation uncovers. If it's money laundering of course it becomes a police matter. That's what started the whole thing

@Marcin ******

Ok. So the customer pays the agent to pay the bribe. So that makes it ok? 😂😂. There's no law, there is bank policy, so it's a bank rule. I don't know about "guidance" but it sounds like you're playing with words.

Anonymous participant 118 What is a scam is tourists bribing bank officials to open an account they otherwise couldn't get

Anonymous participant 303 Her account is frozen

@Bob *********

Freezing of an account means freezing the funds. The account cannot be accessed for anything. If the bank suspects money-laundering they have every right to do this until their investigation (and any subsequent police investigation) is concluded