# Money to my card with an international account

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289>\
**Category:** Monzo Chat\
**Created:** [27 March 2018 17:05 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289 "2018-03-27T17:05:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon67283270](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@anon67283270](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon67283270)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 17:05 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/1 "2018-03-27T17:05:55Z")

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Hi,

Can I transfer money to my card with an account out of UK? Or there is an app to charge my card?

Thanks!!!

Caro.

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**Author:** ![Anarchist](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/anarchist/32/27895_2.png) [@Anarchist](https://community.monzo.com/u/Anarchist)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 17:46 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/2 "2018-03-27T17:46:55Z")

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You can’t do this directly. Transferwise should work, though.

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**Author:** ![anon67283270](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@anon67283270](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon67283270)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 19:16 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/3 "2018-03-27T19:16:06Z")

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Is it posible with a credit card from abroad?

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**Author:** ![nanos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@nanos](https://community.monzo.com/u/nanos)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 19:33 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/4 "2018-03-27T19:33:15Z")

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You can use most credit cards for transferwise, but it’s expensive, both because transferwise charge a higher fee, and because your credit card provider will see this as a cash transaction, and charge you a cash advance fee.

Were are you based? Maybe we can suggest alternative options?

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**Author:** ![Anarchist](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/anarchist/32/27895_2.png) [@Anarchist](https://community.monzo.com/u/Anarchist)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 19:35 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/5 "2018-03-27T19:35:50Z")

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You cannot use a credit card to add funds to your Monzo account. You can use a debit card, but your bank may charge you to exchange the currency, and may add fees as well.

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**Author:** ![anon44204028](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@anon44204028](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon44204028)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 19:42 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/6 "2018-03-27T19:42:15Z")

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> [@Anarchist](#):
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> You cannot use a credit card to add funds to your Monzo account. You can use a debit card…

…but only from certain countries, e.g. Estonia, France, Germany, etc, not other countries such as Colombia etc

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**Author:** ![anon67283270](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@anon67283270](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon67283270)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 19:51 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/7 "2018-03-27T19:51:24Z")

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Im in Colombia

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**Author:** ![nanos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@nanos](https://community.monzo.com/u/nanos)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2018 19:59 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/8 "2018-03-27T19:59:23Z")

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Your username should have told me, but I didn’t want to jump to conclusions…

This kind of rules out the usual recommendations, as neither transferwise nor revolut accept payments from Colombia, as far as I know.

The only two options I can think of are

- open an (additional) account with a high street bank that accepts incoming swift payments, which is going to be expensive
- try Western Union?

Hopefully someone else has better suggestions…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/original/3X/a/e/aedf2f7852aef6ffcd99f29eac49128cfbd2ecc3.svg) [@system](https://community.monzo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [23 September 2018 19:59 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/money-to-my-card-with-an-international-account/35289/9 "2018-09-23T19:59:25Z")

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