Policy on International and Unencoded Checks

Due to repeated problems with depositing international and unencoded checks through the State, we are requiring ALL foreign checks (which includes all Canadian Bank checks) be submitted on a separate Bursar's Advice.

U.S. Bank encoding has 9 digits with no separations in between, and a “bar” followed by two dots signifying the beginning and ending.

SAMPLE: |:123456789|:

Any check that does not have a U.S. Bank routing number pre-encoded on the bottom of the check must be sent to us on a separate Bursar's Advice.

Please fill the Advice out normally except leave the amount blank and mark across the body of the Advice in BOLD letters “FOREIGN”. Hopefully this will help us to bypass the State altogether so we may handle the collection of these items.

Please share this information with anyone who may come in contact with these types of items. Our goal is to receive timely credit for the items and the more people we have looking for them the better off we will be.

Please note: When requesting payment from an international customer we recommend you ask for payment to be made in “U.S. Funds drawn through a U.S. Bank.”