WorldRemit, an online money-transfer company, has expanded its service to Virginia.
The London-based company says that, with its app, customers can use their mobile phones to transfer money to people in more than 125 countries.
The company notes that more than 1 million of Virginia’s 8.3 million residents were born in other countries.
The U.S. is the world’s biggest sender of remittances with more than $56 billion sent overseas each year, according to the World Bank.
WorldRemit now is available in 45 states.