Offer for newcomers to Canada
Benefit from :
Special offer*
  • $100 cashback when you open a chequing account
  • Up to 3 years with no monthly fees
Open an account online

* The $100 cashback promotion is valid until the 31st of October 2024.

National Bank of Canada has the perfect offer to help you settle in.

National Bank of Canada is not a registered bank in France.
Why choose National Bank of Canada?

Easily open your account online from your country

400 branches

available across Canada

No flat monthly fees

for up to 3 years1

Mastercard® credit card3

with no credit history required4

No commitment: you can close your account at any time, with no penalties.

And that’s not all! We are also offering you a welcome gift.

You will also receive $100 cashback directly in your new account thanks to the partnership between pvtistes.net and National Bank of Canada.6

Three simple steps to benefit from the offer:

1

Check that you are eligible.1

2

Open your account online on this page.

3

Make a transaction, you'll receive $100 in your new National Bank of Canada account!

Ready to take advantage of the offer? Open an account on this page.

Open an account online

Example of a Journey to take advantage of the Offer for Newcomers to Canada*

* For information purposes only
2 months before arrival

Open your account online with National Bank of Canada.

1 month before arrival

Do you have any questions about life in Canada?

Just call the free telephone assistance service!

Upon arrival in Canada

National Bank of Canada welcomes you!

8 months after arrival

Are you thinking of applying for permanent residency and have questions?

Be sure you are ready with the free telephone assistance service.

2 years after arrival

Your advisor will continue to support you.

They will continue to give you sound banking advice and will take care of your loan and investment applications.

Take advantage of this offer and get much more than a bank account!

Because we understand your reality we are offering you a range of services that meet the needs of newcomers.

Perfect if you're looking to:

  • Open an account online from your country
  • Make a transfer before you leave
  • Access your funds as soon as you arrive
  • Save on banking fees
  • Build your credit history
  • Receive guidance before and after you arrive in Canada with our telephone assistance service and from one of our advisors
  • Buy a car or real estate in Canada5

Discover our online tools

At a glance
National Bank of Canada is one of the six systemically important banks in Canada. It is an integrated group that provides comprehensive financial services to consumers, small and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations in Canada, while offering specialized services elsewhere in the world.
National Bank of Canada is:
  • 2.7 millions clients
  • 26,428 employees
  • 471 branches across Canada
  • 1643 automated banking machines

As at July 31, 2021. Source: Investor Fact Sheet, 3rd quarter

It is also an institution committed to having a positive impact on people’s lives.
Our ESG principles:
  • Environment: We are working to develop a green economy
  • Social: We enrich communities
  • Governance: We govern according to the highest standards

Consult the Social Responsibility Report

Conditions of the $100 cashback offer

This offer is valid until the 31st of October 2024.
This offer is intended for readers of pvtistes.net who don’t have an account with National Bank of Canada.

To qualify for this offer, you must open a chequing account on pvtistes.net and sign up for the Offer for Newcomers to Canada during the promotional period.

The offer may be modified, extended or withdrawn without prior notice at any time.

The offer may not be combined or used with any other National Bank offer, promotion or benefit and cannot be applied retroactively. There is a limit of one cashback per eligible product during this promotion. The offer can only be applied once for each type of product. Only the primary account holder is eligible for the offer. Current additional holders of a joint account who open a new account will not be eligible for this offer.

Cashback details

Chequing account offer

To qualify for the chequing account offer and get $100 cashback, you must open a new chequing account that is part of the Offer for Newcomers to Canada and meet the conditions of the offer.

When will the cashback be paid?

The cashback will be paid to the new chequing account no later than 210 days after the account is opened.

Eligibility conditions

  • Open a chequing account during the promotion using the redirection link on one of our partners' sites.
  • Sign up for The Connected® package or our exclusive offer for newcomers and keep this package or offer for at least 150 days after the chequing account is opened.
  • Be the main holder of the account.
  • Sign up for online banking and online bank and tax statements within 150 days of opening the chequing account.
  • Carry out 10 eligible transactions over 2 consecutive months after opening the new account.

Eligible transactions are:

  • Debit card purchases
  • Transfers or payments to a National Bank MasterCard using My online bank or the National Bank mobile app
  • Bill payments using My online bank or the National Bank mobile app.
  • Must not have had a National Bank chequing account in the past 24 months.

*** Clients must meet these conditions within 150 days of opening a new account. ***

Exclusions

  • Persons who have not reached the age of 14 at the time the account is opened
  • Employees of National Bank and its subsidiaries and entities
  • Clients who have benefitted from a cashback offer on their chequing account since April 1st, 2022

Other conditions

  • Clients can receive only one cashback for this chequing account.
  • Clients must be at least 14 years old when they open their account and sign up for The Connected® package, or at least 18 years old when they open their account and sign up for our exclusive offer for newcomers.
  • Clients need to keep the chequing account for at least 12 months starting when the account is opened. If they don't meet this condition, they'll have to reimburse a portion of the cashback corresponding to the period still remaining.
  • Clients must keep their chequing account in good standing for 150 days after the account is opened by complying with the conditions set out in the Deposit Account Agreement. For example, clients need to pay the monthly fees of the chequing account when applicable.
  • Clients must not be employed by National Bank or one of its subsidiaries. 
  • This promotion may be modified or withdrawn without prior notice.
  • This promotion can't be combined with any other promotion applicable to chequing accounts, an exclusive offer or The Connected package. 

Commitment

To receive the cashback, you must meet the conditions of the offer, maintain the eligible products and services, and not make any changes to these products and services for a minimum of 12 months from the time you sign up for them. If you do not meet this condition, you will have to refund National Bank of Canada an amount corresponding to the period in which you did not keep your eligible products and services, within 30 days of receiving the request for payment.

Eligibility criteria for the newcomers to Canada offer
  • Be a newcomer to Canada 18 years of age or older
  • Apply to open the account from your home country or within 5 years of your arrival in Canada.
  • Be the sole account holder
Details and conditions of the Offer for Newcomers to Canada

Your first transfer of funds to National Bank of Canada must be a bank-to-bank transfer. You cannot use a money transfer service. National Bank of Canada charges $15 to receive funds from abroad (your French or Belgian bank may also charge transfer fees).

Minimum savings of $334.92 over 3 years

You can save at least $334.92 over 3 years if you meet all the following conditions:

  • Visit a branch to open a bank account and
  • sign up for the Newcomers to Canada package

$334.92 savings over 3 years:

  • Year 1: No flat monthly fee (save $15.95/month for 12 months)
  • Year 2: A flat monthly fee of $7.98 instead of $15.95 (save $7.97/month for 12 months)
  • Year 3: A flat monthly fee of $11.96 instead of $15.95 (save $3.99/month for 12 months)

The monthly fee of $15.95 for your banking package will be charged as of the fourth year. To be eligible for this savings, you must maintain the account and package for at least 36 months. You will no longer qualify for the discount if you don’t keep these products.

Maximum savings of $671.30 over 3 years

You can save up to $671.30 over 3 years if you meet all the following conditions:

  • Visit a branch to open a bank account
  • Sign up for the Newcomers to Canada package
  • During the first year after you sign up for the Newcomers to Canada package
    • Apply for and activate a qualifying personal National Bank Mastercard® credit card3
    • Sign up for eStatements

During the second and third years after you sign up for the Newcomers to Canada package:

  • Set up direct deposit in your National Bank account and receive your salary in the account at least once a month or
  • Make at least two electronic bill payments monthly from this account.

The $671.30 savings over 3 years means the following fees will not be charged:

  • The flat monthly fee for the Newcomers to Canada package for 3 years ($15.95/month for 36 months)
  • The fee for your first order of cheques ($67.10/order)
  • Account statements by mail free of charge for the first year ($30)

The monthly fee of $15.95 for your banking package will be charged as of the fourth year.

Decrease of the savings

To benefit from the full savings amount, you must maintain all those products and services and carry out the qualifying transactions for at least 36 months, unless otherwise indicated. If you don’t meet the conditions of the offer, your savings will be lower. If you don’t make your first cheque order, your savings will be lower.

Furthermore, if during any given month, you maintain your account and package but you don’t maintain one of the other products and services or if you don’t carry out the required transactions (for example if you make one bill payment instead of two), the Bank will charge you the service fee for the month. The monthly fee will be $7.98/month the second year and $11.96/month the third year. You will still benefit from a discount of $7.97/month the second year and $3.99/month the third year.

Finally, if you no longer have the account or the package you will no longer be eligible for the savings.

Legal disclaimers

® National Bank of Canada and the National Bank of Canada logo are registered trademarks of National Bank of Canada.

™ National Bank Assistance Network is a trademark of National Bank of Canada used under licence by authorized third parties.

® Mastercard is a registered trademark, and the circles design is a trademark of Mastercard International Incorporated. Authorized user: National Bank of Canada.

  1. You can take advantage of the Offer for Newcomers if you immigrated to Canada within the past 5 years. For full offer terms and conditions, see the "Details and conditions of the offer" section. The Bank may modify, extend or withdraw the offer at any time without notice. The offer may not be combined or used with any other National Bank offer, promotion or benefit. Fees may apply for transactions not included in the Offer for Newcomers. For details of transaction fees, see the Fee Guide [PDF].
  2. The telephone assistance service offered by National Bank Assistance Network™ is available for 12 months from your account opening date. The content of the packages and terms described are subject to change.
  3. Financing subject to credit approval by National Bank. Certain conditions apply. Eligible credit cards: mycredit®, MC1, Allure, Syncro, Platinum, Echo Cashback, World and World Elite.
  4. A security deposit may be required under certain circumstances.
  5. Financing subject to credit approval by National Bank. Certain conditions apply.
  6. Certain conditions apply. Visit the Conditions of the $100 cashback offer for details.

180 Reviews

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Renaud
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Hello, I just opened my online student bank account for Canada. I would like to have the details of obtaining the bank cards, and also to ask you if I can apply for financial assistance or a scholarship for the fall studies 2021. I am in Ivory Coast currently.
Thank you for helping me.

BanqueNationale1
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Hello Renaud, you can get your credit card and apply for financing when you arrive in Canada only, by going to a branch.

kimi26
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Hello, I was able to be part of the Newcomers program from December 2019 until June 2020. Everything was perfect, credit card, perfect customer service etc. When I return to France, I find myself with a monthly fee of $ 7 which corresponds to the monthly fee of the program (obviously, since I no longer used the bank account in Canada, no transaction was made there since I did not ‘was there more physically). I try to close it and I am told that it is necessary to be physically present in a branch (impossible for me to take a plane just to close an account …). Could someone help me? Thank you 🙂

BanqueNationale1
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Kimi, first of all, thank you for your testimony. In general, closing an account requires in-person identification, for security reasons. The ideal is to go to one of our branches (any one!) In order to close the account before returning to France or elsewhere.

As for the $ 7.48 fee, they correspond to the offer we made to you: if you do not subscribe to certain products and services (personal credit card, online statement, salary deposit or electronic payment of two bills per month) before the start of the second year, you still get a 50% discount on the banking package (which corresponds to $ 7.48).

Of course, given the current situation, and since I want to help you, I invite you to write to me in private so that I can give you the coordinates (email, phone) of your branch. It will be possible to close the account by making sure to validate your identity. Thank you!

^ Julien

Ilias
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Hello, I am trying to register but I cannot find the nearest bank to my future accommodation in the proposed branches.

Sylvain
4 13
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BANK ABSOLUTELY AVOID !!

This bank does not allow you to have a Mastercard credit card.
I had to take 2 days off to go to the agency to fill out the form twice because their employee was not able to do it remotely.

After 2 weeks, I receive a letter from mastercard saying that I do not meet the criteria although I have a fairly decent salary paid on it every month in addition to the 5-digit Transfermate deposit.

In addition, you have a limit of 3000 dollars per day so impossible to buy a car in 1 day … (or you have to go to the agency during working hours, still pay for a bank check)

Fortunately, I kept my French bank. So go to RBC or TD, the customer service is much better.

BanqueNationale1
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Hello Sylvain. I’m sorry the experience did not live up to your expectations. Customers generally have the option of applying for a credit card directly online (https://www.bnc.ca/particuliers/cartes-credit-mastercard.html), but your presence may be required to reasons for identification. Regarding the refusal letter, I suggest you contact the number that appears therein to find out the exact reasons for such a decision. Finally, for security reasons, the limit is indeed set at $ 3000 outside per day; the purchase of a car is usually paid for by a bank draft, which can be given to you in just a few minutes at any branch.

Please do not hesitate to get back to me if you have more questions. ^ Julien

Mathieu
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Hi Sylvain,
To buy a car, in general you can ask for a certified check in the banks and it is obtained in 10 minutes;)

Sylvain
4 13
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Hello,

I filled the form online, no more success because you need an identification, it is for this reason that I had to go to an agency.
And the agent was not able to do better, twice!
(1 time in Toronto and 1 time in Kitchener)
As for the Mastercard number, after 30 minutes of waiting, I gave up.

I find it abnormal that it is my role to call the Mastercard service and not your agent to solve this problem?

Sylvain
4 13
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Hello,

I filled the form online, no more success because you need an identification, it is for this reason that I had to go to an agency.
And the agent was not able to do better, twice!
(1 time in Toronto and 1 time in Kitchener)
As for the Mastercard number, after 30 minutes of waiting, I gave up.

I find it abnormal that it is my role to call the Mastercard service and not your agent to solve this problem?

CamcamT
2 5
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Hello,
Just a little check: it’s not possible to take advantage of this offer if we ever want to use this account as a joint account, right?
Thanks in advance 🙂

BanqueNationale1
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Indeed, you must be the only user of the account.

Isabelle
4 5
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Hello, I have two questions in order to complete the already very comprehensive information you have given:
– What is considered an “eligible transaction” in order to benefit from the $ 50 rebate?
– After making a first cash deposit in the account, can I make a transfer via TransferWise or TransferMate? Or does the first transfer, even after making a cash deposit, have to go through a financial institution?
Thanks in advance for you answers.

BanqueNationale1
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Hello Isabelle, an eligible transaction is any transaction that is not a bank charge.

You will be able to make a transfer from your Canadian bank account only after you arrive in Canada, the opening must be completed in person for you to be able to make a transfer. You can then use the platform of your choice.

Isabelle
4 5
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So if I understand correctly, if I paid, for example, to top up my Opus transport card, this is considered a transaction. Thank you for your reply.

BanqueNationale1
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Exactly, the payment of the opus card is considered a transaction.

-Seb

Anna
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Hello,
I have just arrived in Montreal and I am studying the newcomer offer with BNC and pavtsite. I have some questions:
– the offer is for 3 years however if I wish to cancel the account beforehand, is this possible free of charge?
– if I understood the offer correctly: at least during the first 2 years, I have no fixed monthly costs provided that I order a credit card as soon as the account is opened, that I choose this checking account for the payment of my wages and that I request the statements online?
– when opening an account is a minimum deposit of money required?
– finally the offer of the 50 dollars paid will be on our account after 3 months? how to benefit from this?

Thanks for your feedback
cordially
Anna

Vanessa
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Good morning anna,

The newcomer offer is valid for a period of 3 years. Your account will be completely free for 3 years if you meet all the conditions you set out. Note that you can close your account at any time free of charge. When you go to open your account we do not ask for a minimum amount to be paid into it, you are free to fund your account with the amount you want.

To benefit from the 50 CAD on your bank account you must use the link on this page, the offer will be made automatically and the money will be credited to your account within 3 months.

I hope I have answered your questions and remain available if you have other questions.

Have a good day,

Vanessa

Arwa2
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I want to open investment account and deposit 10,000 CAD to apply for my student visa, This money is treated as proof of funds and would be released to the student every month for 12 months for their study abroad and maintenance expenses along with interest. Please advise here ?

BanqueNationale1
25 0

This is not something we offer.

Arwa2
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Hi, can I open a blocked account in your bank for my future studies when I apply for a student visa?

My nationality is not an Indian or a Chinese because most banks in Canada help only Indian and Chinese to open blocked accounts to help them with the visa process in Canada.
My question, what are the nationalities you help to open a blocked account in your bank

BanqueNationale1
25 0

Hello, we do not offer that type of product. You can start the account opening process 3 months before you come to Canada. Then you will have to visit a branch to finalize the opening.

Anna
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Hello Vanessa,
I have just arrived in Montreal and I am studying the newcomer offer with BNC and pavtsite. I have some questions:
– the offer is for 3 years however if I wish to cancel the account beforehand, is this possible free of charge?
– if I understood the offer correctly: at least during the first 2 years, I have no fixed monthly costs provided that I order a credit card as soon as the account is opened, that I choose this checking account for the payment of my wages and that I request the statements online?
– when opening an account is a minimum deposit of money required?
– finally the offer of the 50 dollars paid will be on our account after 3 months? how to benefit from this?

Thanks for your feedback
cordially
Anna