Premium Bonds when non-UK Resident

[Progressive]

Has anybody got experience of purchasing and holding UK Premium Bonds whilst non-resident? Will this potentially introduce a painful layer of complexity or impact my tax status?

[trickywoo]

You can with some limitations mainly postal only application and access, unless you have a Uk bank account.

There are details on the ns&i site.

[W99KSY]

I’ve been looking to do this recently. As above if you don’t already have an ns&i account you need to apply via post.
NS&I then suggested I credit the account with a cheque or bankers draft to buy the premium bonds - our problem is we don’t have the cheque books any more and a bankers draft is expensive - no way of using a debit card apparently so all a bit of a faff