Folks,

We work on LEED Projects in Brazil and everytime we have to pay a registration, certification, or appeal fee is the same drama: the invoices that are automatically generetated once we submit do not contain ANY bank account info, only a physical address in Pensilvania.

We haven't had one single client so far who was able to complete the transaction with only this little piece of infromation. I don't know how bank transactions work in the US but banks in Brazil need bank account numbers, SWIFT code, and all that. Banks here do not accept simply sending U$22,5 grant checks to a physical addres in Pensilvânia, this is not recognized as a legitimate financial transaction here.

We always have to send an email to GBCI/contact and ask for that, but this procedure delays the process since we always have to wait a few or even several days for their response with the International Wire Transfer Info. We have to ask that to GBCI everytime time our clients have a transaction to be made because we do not feel confident in using the same bank info, since we once we experienced a Project not receiving the payment receipt because we referred to somebody's email and this persons was no longer working in GBCI. So from that time on we decided to just send an email asking the account info everytime. But again, it delays the process and this is all very frustrating.

So my question is: are we doing the fastest procedure? Is there another way to make these transactions without having to ask GBCI for the international wire transfer info everytime? We stress that we will ALWAYS need bank account numbers!

Thanks for sharing your experiences!