Yes, I read the OP, and not all responses, but some of them.
What does not make sense to me:
1) Why do someone in a foreign country owe you more than 1k usd in the first place if you do not have any idea whatsoever how to get paid?
2) Why don't you have a bank account?
3) If the client is not willing to use btc, how could you possibly think that he will be willing to send money to a shady btc exchange?
Therefore, I conclude that the problem was unsolved because it was wrongly explained in the first place.
Instead of trying to find something that does not exist, ask the guy to send you directly btc, no matter what he wants to.
And yet, we see the following:
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I asked itbit if they accept transfers from third paries and they said "yes, but we discourage the practice".
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Does not make what I said, wrong.