Moving to EU with a pre-settled status

Daliah

Fedcas65 said:

Daliah said:

Fedcas65 said:

Daliah said:

Fedcas65 said:

I'll search through the forum, I just relied on their website for now...
I do agree that not all the banks allow you that, but some yes, like Lloyds or Barclays.
Probably these were people from Slavic countries, which are not entirely in EU, many regulations are not observed by them but they are part of EU respecting most of the agreements, or some sort of custom arrangement, the most common one is the freedom of travel.

You appear to just make it up as you go. Neither Lloyds nor Barclays are now providing current account services to residents of EU countries, and it's nothing to do with "people from Slavic countries". Searching the forum doesn't help you. You need to confirm with your bank that you can keep your account when/if you move to country x.

How do you know that?

The reason why I don't ask them is because as soon as I ask them, they'll start the verification procedure, I know how it works, it happened to me from another country...
So, I was trying to get it by myself and with your help guys...

Only your bank can reliably tell you whether you can keep your account if you move abroad. Your contractual relationship is with the bank, not with random strangers on an Internet forum.

I know that the final word is what the bank says after my request, but I need to avoid triggering such process at any cost, in case I really move out. Unfortunately, the process has a window of 3 months for my experience, so it's a risk if then I leave UK... So, from being a simple consultation, it would become cooking myself on the grill...

One thing is true, I'll need to change address as soon as I leave, that could trigger the process if they have a database of virtual addresses...

As I mentioned, on their website they say that I can keep certain products, minimum the bank account I guess, but I need to forget credit cards etc...

I am afraid, I have no idea what process you are referring to, and what that database with virtual addresses is supposed to be. It's a very simple question to ask your bank, for example: can I keep my account 1234 if I move to country xyz for xx months/years? It won't take the bank 3 months to answer this simple question, and they won't register any 'virtual' address if you ask. it.