bevoinva

You can do it by private message. Very easy and quick. No phone call needed.

nwflyboy

Thanks, that would be great.

They don't do anything crazy like doing a HP when decreasing a CL - right?

bevoinva

No - but they will reply to your initial request with a warning that if they reduce the credit line, you will be ineligible for a credit line increase for 6 months. You'll need to respond that you understand and for them to go ahead and reduce the line.

mavericks414141

"Would this apply to merging credit lines and closing out the empty card as well? (i.e. could you do that?)"

Just tried on the AA Executive Card. No luck merging before closing. Shame because it was my highest credit line with citi.

CEONelson

Citi also wouldn't reallocate my CL even if doing so meant me bringing over triple what I was planning to on a BT

Chase however instantly reallocated between two of my cards so they got the majority of my BT business this year.

mia

How much did you pay Chase in fees or interest?

Stvnstng

I just received my Citi Platinum Select card. Looking to spend the $3K 1st three months to get the 50K points. At the same time, I was hoping to eventually transfer the CL to my Citi Gold card (it has a longer history) and then cancel the Platinum.

I believe I have to wait 6 months from opening the Platinum account before I can transfer any CL right? Is it possible to move CL from a newer card to an older card?

Happy

Since you unearthed this thread, have you actually read thru it (not a long thread to begin with)? Read and then you would know this is near impossible with Citi, as well as under what circumstance (only one really) Citi would move CL, and that is the exact opposite as you are hoping.

Joe1690

Quick question I didn't see addressed although I might have missed it.

I had my dad apply for a new Citibank credit card the other night because he has a large credit line with his other Citibank card (and I assumed he was at their cap) and was looking to move some balances from other issuers to the new card which had a great balance transfer offer. Unfortunately, instead of receiving the message with instructions to call-in which would have allowed him to move the credit line around, they auto approved him for the card with a lower credit line than he needs. Since the card was literally opened yesterday, is there anyway that Citi will allow him to move some of his existing credit line to this newly approved card?

I totally had forgotten about lowering the credit line on your existing account prior to applying (plus I thought it took several months before Citibank would release the reduced credit limit back into the available pool when applying for a new card. Or maybe I have Citibank confused with Barclays?

Also, I know that carrying a balance is bad especially when you are paying interest but unfortunately my dad chooses to carry a balance for reasons that I can't explain so the least I can do is help him minimize the interest he pays on the balances he is carrying.

Thanks for the help in advance.

pritomd

I was closing an AAdvantage Platinum Select amex, and did it via secure message. At the same time, I asked if my credit line could be reallocated to my AAdvantage Platinum Select, or my newly opened Citi Prestige. They said this was not possible. Is this expected or should I have done something differently and lost out on some credit line?

cupps

Called in today to request that I be able to move part of a credit line with Citi to another card within the same Citi card family. The representative said that this would take several days to accomplish and would require them to pull my credit from the bureaus. I then said, no all I want to do is decrease the line on the one card and move it over to the other card. The reps response was that a decrease in one card and a separate increase in another card would require a credit pull. I am a Citi card with my oldest card in my portfolio with them over 14 years in age and have never come across this before. Is this something new or did I get a bad rep?

winsteven13

This is was my result as well a few months back. I've been trying to move credit onto my grandfathered Citi Forward card (I have been using this aggressively for 5x amazon and 5x dining for the past year, only have 2k limit lol).

FallenPlat

The hard-pull for moving credit from one card to another is a correct description of how it works, unfortunately. And, yes, that's even if you're not asking for any "new" credit at all.

The only known way around this is to move credit during the application process for a new card, which (for this purpose) obviously needs to be over the phone with a CSA. Calling AFTER the new card is already opened doesn't work, or at least it didn't work for me when I tried it a couple of months ago.

I'm not 100% sure how "hard" the hard-pull really ends up being in actual real-world practice.

Happy

It has been like this since 2008 financial crisis and Citi NEVER reverts back to pre-2008 procedure while Chase and other banks freely move the credit lines among cards in 90% of the time.

As mentioned above the only time to be able to reallocate CL is at application and BEFORE the application is approved. For that matter if you are instantly approved, you are SOL for the chance to move credit line to the new card. If you dont get an instant approval but go all the way to add options to your account, at the end it is still pending - you then have a very good chance of getting approval AND the opp to reallocating CL.

It is extremely annoying practice of Citi but that is what it is. Nothing can be done about it.

italdesign

The caveat being, at least for me, that I'm always presented a puny amount of transferable CL. Example: I might have 30K CL amongst existing cards, new card default is 5K, they allow maximum of 2K to be moved in. Very helpful...