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I'm not sure if Citibank's policy allows the AU to do the Balance Transfer but your father certainly could. I guess this would depend on what level of access you have to the account online. Whenever I have done a BT all they ever asked was who is the creditor, what is the account # and how much do you want to transfer. Never any question of my relationship to the other account.