Back to the OP, if you give us some idea what you are trying to do between the banks, other advice could be provided instead of shooting in the dark about the reason. As I mentioned before there really is no "close" connection between any US or Canadian bank and DR banks with the same name.
Well windeguy, we'll be there for two months. We need to build two walls [front and back] that will probably run $7-10,000/us. We want to buy a used SUV [$10,000?], we're debating about expanding our house, need to buy an inverter and 8-16 batteries. All this on top of normal living expenses [renting a house, food, restaurants, travel around the country]. Maybe buy an apt in SD. A lot of other maybes. In the past, we've brought $5,000 cash with us, and used the ATM. Had a bad experience with ATM once, and the possibility the card might be cloned or the machine eating it scare me. Last trip we ran out of cash after we decided to built a wall down the side of our property. My brother-in-law called a cambio place he knows [we've never used one] and sent us there, they accepted our check, but they didn't have the cash [$3,000 US] to give us, so they went down to BHD cash one of their checks, and came back saying it was too early, they didn't have that much cash at the bank [?????????] We ended up taking back our check and going to our BHD branch and taking the money out of a CD we had there.
So - I was hoping there was an easy way to access US accounts if we need money. Obviously I was wrong. At this point I think we'll make a few $9900 wire transfers to our BHD savings account and just have it there if we need it. What I don't like about it is changing it all to pesos [we don't have a dollar account and don't think we can open one from here]. I do most of my banking online, so I probably can wire more funds down there while I'm there if needs be.
Just had hoped there was an easier way.
AE