Do I really need a French bank account (RIB) to sign up to Orange/Sosh?

graham · 2 June 2021 18:35

There’s already a topic on this very subject with lots in info:

Since myself and my partner have taken recedency we thought it would be helpful to open a joint bank account here as the likes of insurances and phone companies don’t accept our TransferWise BE IBAN numbers even though they should by law. Cue going in last week spending two hours as they tried to photograph/scan/email all our documents and signed countless forms (half a tree went in the bin ), back in today and we can’t open a joint account as you don’t have a recent P60 you can give us, but we can open an account for your partner though. Explained that I don’t get P60’S now as I don’t work as I am retired and don’t have/get a pension yet, everything else is still in the UK as we have not been able to get back to collect everything, but I have another account with you and have had for 7 years, nope does not make any difference I am afraid, gave up after that as life is too short to bother, but my partner has an account now My partne…