I signed up for ePassporte on Jan. 31, and this morning (Feb. 7) I received two small verification deposits in my personal bank account. I logged in to my ePassporte account and submitted the value of the two amounts. Success! Now I can withdraw funds from ePass to my personal bank account, I can do peer to peer transfers, and I can receive funds from merchants. It took 1 week to get this going.
Worth noting — each withdrawal costs $2.00. (With EcoCard, I believe it costs $10.00 per transfer. I am still not verified with EcoCard; I’ll post when that happens). Peer to peer transfers cost $0.25 per transfer for the first 5 in one day, and $1.00 per transfer for each transfer after that (on the same day).
About withdrawal time — I transferred $60 from my credit card to my ePassporte account (paid a $5.00 fee to do that), and then I initiated a withdrawal of $20 from ePassporte to my bank account ($2.00 fee for this). Money should be in my account within 5 days — I will post here when it actually arrives.