State Bank of India [SBI] review: worst nri service 11

I would suggest never open account with SBI. I sent a cheque for Rs. 15000/- to my friend in India and it was not cleared by bank on the ground that the cheque book issued is obsolete. Inspite of various request, they never sent me new cheque book. The bureauecracy is at the highest level in SBI. Once they have grabbed your money, they won't care or respond to your requests. Their websites don't work properly. For NRI, it could be a very bad experience.

I agree with you, I tried to take home loan but instead of helping me they given me very complicated suggestion which will never help me to take home loan from SBI. Recently they are deduction irreverent tax from my NRO A/c balance which is total wrong as my balance is not coming tax category and addressing this matter from last one year so for no action and no is ready to reply...

NEVER OPEN AN NRE ACCOUNT IN SBI ! Totally unprofessional and rude staff...zero customer service.

dear may be u have any problem with your home adress 3 months back i open a nri account in my hometown with in 3 months i get ATM cheq book and internet banking plz dont tell like this

Yes, SBI has ZERO customer service. My branch in Mumbai doesn't even provide a number you can call. The numbers listed on their business cards are 'not registered' i.e. bogus/invalid. Even the mail SBI website lists the same numbers. I have complained several times but they haven't done anything about it. The only one number they have that connects is the fax line! This shows they are doing this on purpose so that customers can't call and DISTURB them. Emails are rarely answered, and if they are, the response will be a short, 1 line, message that will be vague and incomplete!
If you live in India then you can deal with them. If they don't respond by e-mail or phone, you can go personally to the branch and face them. However, if you live overseas, then it is much much more frustrating! I would avoid SBI .

we made a complain to SBI NRI Branch Jallandar where we hold the account as our account was hacked and money taken out.
First it took them four days to just lodge the complain then another week for complain number.
Since then we have send twenty two email to Jallandar, ludhiana and chandigarah NRI office but we hade email from Jallandar branch saying they looking into the case, but NOTHING from Ludhiana or Chandigaragh
It is very frustrating that whwn you call tephone number you given on internet nobody answer them
Mr. Dalbir Nahal.

PM Modi is wasting his time and energy change these Babus, whether they are located in India or USA, low level or on higher post. My brother-in-law requested to open an account some 30 years ago. To contact someone in Mumbai, or here in USA is chore. They expert in hanging up phones. I spent complete night chasing them and the [protected] service provided me no existing phone number. The lady in New York branch was so much was in rush, she hung up phone before I could finish sentence. Praful Shah, Houston, Texas

This blank is going in hellll

I am trying to access my NRI account for last 40 days and after all my effort with the branch in Model Town Karnal branch, they have not been able to resolve my issue and now they don't even respond to my emails. What a bunch of jokers in this branch who don't know what's going on outside SBI bank. As economists say Govt. is not for running banks and business, they are to govern and they should stop wasting tax payers money on these joker employees.

I converted my existing account to NRI status and changed the registered Indian phone number to US number. Credi/Debit activities in my account were being sent via SMS to the Indian phone, but no longer being sent to my US phone. I contacted the international customer service about two months back. They merely assigned a case number and forwarded it to my SBI branch at Bhubaneswar for resolution. I called the branch manager who said they are "working on the problem". This seems to be a simple IT problem, that should not take more than an hour to fix. However, it has been almost eight weeks, and I am still waiting for any responce from the branch office or the international customer service. I am very disappointed with the quality of service by SBI and the service does not meet my expectation at all.

Sbi bank and its staff both are really pathetic as other government departments are. Keep knocking on door to door, desk to desk and lethargic staff would keep on passing the liability and making excuses. That's y there's brain drain in india.