Well, welcome to FlyerTalk, musicdude91, but if you'd been reading the main thread on this card:
for a while, you'd know that this is not that unusual for Citi. In fact, something very similar happened to me before (except that I didn't need the miles right away in my case.) But I applied again after that, and it didn't happen a seoond time. Or a third time. Or a fourth time.

In other words you were unlucky, and Citi does this sometimes, but they don't do it the majority of the time.

The moral of the story is: You need more planning than that to use miles credit cards successfully. If you're going to give up earning 50k or whatever AA miles just because you're mad at Citi, isn't that like "cutting your nose to spite your face"? Aren't you ever going to need AA miles again?

If you cancel, you not only won't get the bonus now, you also won't be able to get a bonus for 24 months (should you reconsider later).

So if you were planning to only apply for miles cards right before you need to use the miles, I suggest you re-think that strategy. I recommend you stock up on miles in advance of having a specific use for them, so that all you'll need credit cards for after that is to "replenish" miles you just used up, rather than "get" the miles you're about to need. If you're always going to be "miles short" and needing everything to work perfectly, you're likely to have more than just this one glitch mess your plans.

If they take a whole month off, you still have 2.5 months or so. That's because Citi says you have "3 months", but because of some expected delays (though not as much as in your case), they've actually padded it by about 14 days. That's why if it takes a month to get your card, you'll still have about 2.5 months to go.