Originally Posted by htown

Just a point of reference

Nov 22 - applied for both 60k business and 50k personal from inflight instantly approved
Nov 28 - received both cards and called Chase and changed statement close date to the 10th of each month
Dec 10 - first statement closed on both cards
Dec 11 - Jan 9th - met the require $5k spend
Jan 10 - statement closed
Jan 12 - 110k points posted
Jan 14 - added my companion!