It's funny you should say that, when I moved to the UK for a couple of years I had a couple of months at the start were I was casually job hunting and no banks

It's funny you should say that, when I moved to the UK for a couple of years I had a couple of months at the start were I was casually job hunting and no banks there would give me a personal bank account unless I had a full time job... I think I had about £10k I wanted to transfer over at the time too. I knew I wanted to go contracting so I setup a ltd company and had a business bank account within a couple of days.