On: Ask HN: How do you pay your remote team?

[stephenr]

Their website (much like the ones I checked here in Thailand and back home in Australia) mention up to 7 weeks clearing time.

[planetburgess → stephenr]

The foreign bank generally had to do a fairly manual process to get a U.S. cheque cleared. This can take weeks. 7 weeks is a bit excessive, probably they are giving worst case scenario.