Forex & Remittances

Forex & Remittance FAQs

• What are Correspondent Banks?

  To make it easy for NRIs anywhere in the world to send money to their loved ones in India, ICICI Bank has partnered with several banks to provide a variety of offline money transfer products. These options include:

  • ICICI Bank Transfer – Get direct credit into the beneficiary ICICI Bank account instantly*.
  • Non ICICI Bank Electronic Fund Transfer – Avail of electronic credits to the beneficiary maintaining account with over 100 banks in India, within the same day*.
  • Demand draft – Purchase a Rupee Demand Draft across the counter, from any of the specific partner bank locations. The remitter can physically carry the DD to India or courier to beneficiary

  *Day excludes weekends (Saturday and Sunday), banking and public holidays in India. The Bank will process transactions received before the cut off time on the same working day. Transaction requests received after the cut off time will be processed on the next working day.

  Click here to view the List of Exchange Houses.

• What is Foreign Currency Cheque?

  This is an easy and most convenient way to credit cheques drawn in foreign currency into your ICICI Bank account. You can approach any ICICI Bank branch to deposit your cheque.

• What can you deposit?

  We accept cheques, travelers cheques, demand drafts, cashier orders, pay orders, and bankers'cheques etc.
  Please submit your cheques along with a signed Indemnity Letter cum deposit slip to the nearest branch. To download Indemnity Letter cum deposit slip, please click here.
  Please ensure that instruments are deposited at ICICI Branch in India with proper acknowledgment in the specified deposit slip only. Do not deposit instruments in drop boxes.

  Cheques less than below mentioned amounts are not accepted:

  Currency Code	FCC CURRENCY	Account Type
  		Savings	Current
  USD	US Dollar	10	150
  GBP	Great Britain Pound	10	150
  AUD	Australian Dollar	10	100
  CAD	Canadian Dollar	10	300
  EUR	Euro	10	100
  SGD	Singapore Dollar	10	100
  CHF	Swiss Frank	100	100
  KWD	Kuwaiti Dinar	100	100
  OMR	Omani Rial	100	100
  NZD	New Zealand Dollar	100	100
  JPY	Japanese Yen	10000	10000
  Others	Other than above	500	500

  Time for credit into your account

  • Money will be credited into your account ranging from immediately to 21 international working days.
  • Credit in 8 days – Amount is credited within 8 international working days of lodging of your cheque with our correspondent bank. This facility is available for:
    Instruments having value upto USD 350 or equivalent.
    For value above USD 350 and below USD 10,000 or equivalent - only on specific request from the customer, provided the beneficiary is holding a savings account and fulfills the Bank's due-diligence criteria .

  NOTE:
  This is only available for instruments which are drawn in the following currencies and countries: USD instruments drawn on a bank in US; GBP in UK; SGD in Singapore; CAD in Canada.

  • Credit in 15 days – Credit is available after 15 international working days from the day the cheque is logged by the central processing center for cheques upto 10000 USD or equivalent favoring savings account.
  • USD cheques payable in USA and GBP cheques payable in UK of value greater than 10,000 currency units for savings accounts and for any value for current accounts are sent under collection arrangements with correspondent banks in USA and UK. For USD cheques drawn on New York, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, the confirmed credit is provided to ICICI Bank after 6 international working days from the date of receipt of cheque in the US. For other states the credit is received after 15 international working days from the day the cheque is received by the correspondent bank in US. For GBP cheques the credit is received after 15 International Working days from the time that the cheque is received by the correspondent bank in UK
  • Any cheque not meeting the above criteria (for eg. SGD 15000, USD 8000 payable in UAE) is sent for collection to the drawee bank or collecting bank under Pure Collection Basis. The credit is given when the bank realises the same.
  • For currencies where ICICI Bank does not have nostro arrangements with correspondent banks the funds would be received in our USD nostro for subsequent conversion to INR.
  • Card Rate prevailing on the date of credit to customer account would be the applicable exchange rate.
  • ICICI Bank has nostro arrangement in the following currencies: USD, CAD, GBP, EUR, CHF, SGD, AUD, NZD, AED, HKD, JPY and ZAR

  Charges:

  Collection Arrangement	Customer Segment
  	NRI Customers – (individual)	Domestic customers - (individual)	Domestic Customers - (Non-individuals)
  Instant Credit	Rs 250	Rs 250	Not applicable
  Cash Letter Arrangement (Credit on day 8)	No charges	0.50%, subject to minimum of Rs.350.	0.50%, subject to minimum of Rs.350 or as per any specific agreement with the customer
  Cash Letter Arrangement (Credit on Day 15)	No charges	0.25% subject to minimum of Rs.250	0.25% subject to minimum of Rs.250 or as per any specific agreement with the customer.
  Final Clearing Services	No charges (Charges in Foreign currency might be levied by the correspondent bank)	0.125% subject to minimum of Rs.250 Additionally : charges levied by correspondent bank in original	0.25% subject to minimum of Rs.350 Additionally : charges levied by correspondent bank in original
  Collection	1. Courier charges of INR 400/-. 2. Such other charges, as the overseas bank may levy.	0.125% subject to minimum of Rs.250 Additionally : Courier charges of INR 400/-, and such other charges, as the overseas bank may levy.	0.125% subject to minimum of Rs.250 Additionally : Courier charges of INR 400/-, and Such other charges, as the overseas bank may levy. Or as per any specific agreement with the customer.
  Cheque Purchase	Interest @17.5% p.a. from the date of credit to customer's account till the date of receipt of funds in the nostro.	Interest @17.5% p.a. from the date of credit to customer's account till the date of receipt of funds in the nostro.	Interest @17.5% p.a. from the date of credit to customer's account till the date of receipt of funds in the nostro or as per any specific agreement with the customer

  The above charges are exclusive of any statutory taxes or fees like service tax, education cess etc. All percentage of charges stated above shall be applied on gross amount to be credited.
  * The courier charges will only be applicable for cheques that are sent under collection. Goods and Service Tax will be levied on the converted gross INR amount in accordance to GST Bill 2017 passed by the Government of India w.e.f. July 1, 2017. Please click here to know the slab wise GST structure. The charges for clearing favoring EEFC / RFC will be as per above schedule suject to minimum of following:

  The charges for clearing favoring EEFC / RFC will be as per above schedule suject to minimum of following:

  Currency	USD	EUR	GBP	AUD	CAD	SGD
  Charge	8	6	4	8	9	13