HSBC Cheque issue

Mabeldog

Hello... my friend is trying to pay in a cheque issued by the US IRS in dollars into his elderly housebound father's account but branch won't accept as he has no current photo ID ... just going round in circles... please help !

wmb194

Mabeldog said:

Hello... my friend is trying to pay in a cheque issued by the US IRS in dollars into his elderly housebound father's account but branch won't accept as he has no current photo ID ... just going round in circles... please help !

Your friend has no current ID or the father? Get current ID? It probably isn't possible to deposit foreign cheques via the app. Get the IRS to send the money electronically? (Probably easier said than done.)

lr1277

I have quite a few questions.

Is the cheque made out to your friend or your friend's father?

Does the account holder have a paying-in slip?

During the covid years when i couldn't get to a branch, my bank First Direct allowed me to post my cheque with a paying-in slip to an address in Northamptonshire.

Assuming the cheque is made out to your friend's father:

So if your friend can find out an address to which you can pay in cheques, your friend's father could write to the bank asking them to pay the cheque into his account. Include the cheque and the paying-in slip as well as the covering letter.