Originally Posted by
SeeBuyFly
10/18 to 12/21 is 64 days. Citi doesn't formally have a at-least-65-days rule; I have repeatedly been approved in the past after 62 days.
Originally Posted by
AugustWest
As per the wiki, 8/65 is just best practice established by FTer's trial and error. Nice to know 62 works too.
No,
62 does not work reliably. We made it 65 after separate reports of
one failure at 62 days and another failure at 63 days.
Please try to understand: Citi is sloppy (and inconsistent) with their counting of days.
Sometimes they err the "bad" way,
sometimes they don't err., and maybe even
sometimes they err the "good" way (58 or 59 instead of 60).
If you want to risk being denied and then having to wait even longer, you can try to apply a few days earlier. But if you want the
best chance of being approved, pretend that
65 is the "law", and
ignore random datapoints that someone or other got approved with a smaller gap between applications. We know that people have gotten approved at 62 days, but we also know that people have gotten denied at 62 days.
And, btw, we don't know why Citi's timing is so sloppy, so we don't know if it's dependent on anything. I would certainly not assume that if you got approved at 62 days so far, that that guarantees that you'll always get approved at 62 days. They may not have been sloppy (or have been sloppy in the "good" direction) the times you applied at 62 days, but may be sloppy in the "bad" direction the next you try it.