SBI Express Remit Review – Charges, Transfer Time, Status & Registration
What is SBI Express Remit Facility?
State bank of India offers remittances services to NRIs via multiple channels. But in this article, we will cover the SBI Express Worldwide Remit facility which enables NRI to send money to the beneficiaries holding accounts in India.
SBI offers a web-assisted remittance service to send money to their loved ones in India across the world using the CIP (Customer Initiated Payments) mode of money transfer. This facility is available for 39 currencies across the world. This service is referred to SBI Express Worldwide.
Here is the list of acceptable 39 currencies from where you can send the money to the beneficiary account in India:
AED | United Arab Emirates Dirham | KWD | Kuwaiti Dinar |
AUD | Australian Dollar | LTL | Lithuanian Litas |
BGN | Bulgarian Lev | LVL | Latvian Lats |
BHD | Bahraini Dinar | MAD | Moroccan Dirham |
CHF | Swiss Franc | MUR | Mauritius Rupee |
CZK | Czech Republic Koruna | MXN | Mexican Peso |
DKK | Danish Krone | NOK | Norwegian Krone |
DZD | Algerian Dinar | NZD | New Zealand Dollar |
EEK | Estonian Krron | OMR | Omani Rial |
EXP | Egyptian Pound | PLN | Polish Zloty |
EUR | Euro | QAR | Qatari Rial |
GBP | Great Britain Pound | RON | Romanian Leu |
HKD | Hong Kong Dollar | SAR | Saudi Arabian Riyal |
HRK | Croatian Kuna | SEK | Swedish Krona |
HUF | Hungarian Forint | SGD | Singaporean Dollar |
ILS | Israeli Shekel | THB | Thai Baht |
ISK | Icelandic Krona | TND | Tunisian Dinar |
JOD | Jordanian Dinar | TRY | Turkish New Lira |
JPY | Japanese Yen | ZAR | South African Rand |
KES | Kenyan Shilling |
Apart from these 39 currencies, SBI also offers remittance services to NRIs located in the UK, Canada, Middle East & Gulf countries.
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Charges with Terms and Conditions
Here are a few conditions which you should be aware of before remitting the money from outside India:
1) In a single transaction, the max you can remit in your local currency is up to USD 10000 to the beneficiary account with SBI.
2) In case your beneficiary is holding an account with other banks, then you can remit in your local currency up to USD 5000 in a single transaction.
3) Minimum amount of remittance in your local currency is capped at USD 50.
Current Charge Applicability
Remittance Amount | Fee for Direct Credit | Fee for Credit to other Banks |
---|---|---|
Up to the equivalent of USD 500 | No charges | Rs. 6 |
Above equivalent of USD 500 | No charges | No charges |
4)These charges are subject to change as per the SBI facility from time to time.
Remittance Amount | Service Tax Rate (% on the gross amount of currency exchange) | Min Amt | Max Amt |
---|---|---|---|
Up to Rs.100000 | 0.12% | Rs.30 | Rs.120 |
Between Rs.100000 and Rs.1000000 | 0.06% | Rs.120 | Rs.600 |
Above 10lac | 0.012% | Rs.660 | Rs.6000 |
5) Above all, you pay an education cess of 3% on service tax on each transaction.
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Transfer Time
It takes hardly one business day to remit your money in the beneficiary account. Registration of the user on the website. is a onetime activity that requires the user to provide his/ her particulars and set login credentials:
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SBI Express Remit Registration
To Register yourself for this service follow the simple steps:
- Visit the url: https://remit.onlinesbi.com/glsww/
- Click on sign up option.
- Fill your First and last name, email address, password, confirm your password, capture the Captcha.
- Accept their tnc and proceed to next.
- Key in your personal details like title, citizenship,occupation and annual income details.
- Enter your residential details and verify the same.
- Click on next button and identify document details.
- Upload your document and verify the contact details.
- Registration approval by SBI GLS after proper verifications and validations.
- Registration of the beneficiaries on the website post login.
- Initiation of funds transfers requests.
- Processing of remittance instructions by GLS after due regulatory checks.
- Affording credit to the beneficiary either by way of direct credit, RTGS, or NEFT.
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Transfer Status
Post you initiate fund transfer you get a unique transfer reference number that is alphanumeric in nature. This number can be used to track the status of the remittance at any time on the website: https://remit.onlinesbi.com/
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