Once you have received proper documentation of the individual’s authority over the customer’s estate and the account funds, your institution should be able to send the account funds via Fedwire — we link to detailed instructions for international wires through Fedwire below. Since this situation is relatively rare for your institution, we do not see a problem with performing this transaction as an exception to your general policy, with documentation to demonstrate why the exception was necessary.

For resources related to our guidance, please see:

• Fedwire Reference Guide: How to Send an International Wire via the Fedwire^® Funds Service

• The Fedwire guide recommends obtaining a “SWIFT Bank Identifier Code” for the recipient’s bank, and a list of codes for Lithuanian institutions is available here