Originally Posted by
MDtR-Chicago
I guess we'll find out, since I plan to keep applying for any excellent offers they decide to advertise.

The restriction on the Citi account profile is apparently gone. After about 2.5 years, the next Citi app on that SSN was instantly approved with a big credit line. So either one of the original reps recoded the bad account, or it "expired" out of their system, or some other Citi quirk... but everything appears fine now.