I made the payment to SEF using Bison Bank. But the payment doesnât seem to be reflected in their page after 2 days. Did anyone face this before. Did it get resolved?
Thanks,
Ravi R
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Follow up with Nuno?
Nuno, confirmed that the payment is made. But no change in SEF portal
Do you mean 2 business days passed but your application status did not change on the SEF portal?
If so, how did you pay? Using the âpayments to governmentâ option in your online banking?
I paid using âpayments to the stateâ option in bison bank
Yes, that sounds correct.
I think such payment should reach SEF in 1 business day.
It doesnât reflect after 3 days now. My lawyer has emailed SEF but he doubts that SEF will respond
Iâd give it a couple of days, and if it doesnât get sorted, email SEF directly with the âcomprovativoâ (bank payment confirmation) attached.
Just an update for others. The payment didnât reflect after a week in SEF and finally got expired. No response from SEF for the email and we were not able to contact SEF. The money we paid was lost forever.
My lawyer was able to generate other payment. This time I was careful to wait for 48 hours to make the payment and it reflected the next day in SEF website. So please wait for 48 hours to make the payment. Thanks to JP for the tip.
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Lost?!
As in completely gone, or merely disappeared into the government without a specific acknowledgement?
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Yeah. Completely lost. Iâm not surprised based on what I have seen so far.
When I attempted to make my DUC payment straight away, it got rejected in my online banking with an error message saying smth like âreference does not existâ.
Thatâs when I re-read the small print on the SEF invoice and realized I need to wait 48 hours.
So I am a tad surprised how you were able to make the first âearlyâ payment without an error.
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Yeah. Bison bank allows you to pay early. Did you use bison bank?
OK, it may be a particular problem with Bison then.
I am with Millennium BCP as I did not invest in funds.
You may want to try and get a refund from Bison, however itâs âonlyâ 533EUR so may not be worth the hassle.
I dont know about foreign systems, but with FED wires the payments cannot get âLostâ. They may bounce around for a couple weeks but will eventually come back.
The entire electronic payments system is so archaic it is ripe for new technologies such as crypto or fintech. No traceability of payments in 2021? Come onâŠ