I can vouch for that advice and equally double check. My story - I worked for a Canadian company Blackberry in the UK and they wanted me to go to the Seattle o

I can vouch for that advice and equally double check. My story - I worked for a Canadian company Blackberry in the UK and they wanted me to go to the Seattle office for few weeks. I said I couldn't afford to be covering expenses and my manager said would sort that out, came along with a bit of paper saying was expense advance - sign that. Well, turns out he lied, was pay advance as I found out when I got paid say 12 hours TZ difference from my bank etc when my rent, council tax and everything bounced. So I'm on the other side of the World and chaos is starting to rain on my home back home. Now was a Canadian also there for a few weeks and not only had he got a proper expense advance, was 3x what I got (yes I was underpaid and that's another story) and was shocked how my boss messed up. Long story short, they never fixed the mess and caused me to have a breakdown, never did get my expenses back, lost my home and ended up with a massive council tax bill that took me years paying off and life went very downhill from there afterwards from one surreal predicament to another. So do remind your companies that you are not a bank, you are already working in areas for the company and never ever pay for expense stuff from your own money unless you can charge interest and penalty clauses for late paying.