This was a HUGE bank ... one of the "big four" in the US. If you think about it, they hope that it will bounce so they can collect fees on the overdraft amount. In my opinion, it shouldn't take that long for any check to clear a bank, I don't care where it is located. A simple phone call would have told them whether or not the check was good and all of this nonsense would have been avoided. I am still not going to let this rest with the bank. I am on them about the way they handled this situation and I am going to keep on pestering them until I get some answers as to why they let this go so long without contacting me and that if they have reported me to chexsystems then they sure as hell better take me off as this was not my fault. I have already told them that I know that it doesn't take that long and that there is something really wrong with the way they handle foreign checks and that it is not the depositors fault if the check is not good, when all they had to do was pick up the damn phone and verify the funds if they had any reservations about not being able to collect on it. Instead, they let it go on for a month or so and not once did they even contact me regarding the problem. I only found out about it AFTER I went in to make a deposit into my account and found out they closed the account. No phone call, no correspondence via mail ... NOTHING. In my opinion, that is a really crappy way to do business and treat your customers after they bailed your ass out with their tax money.
One thing stands out here, that is, the long delays. 
