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I wrote a few weeks ago about the current credit card rules and best practices for each bank, detailing each bank’s current policies for whether you are likely to get approved for a new card (and most importantly, whether you’ll get a(nother) signup bonus!).  Here’s part of the section on Chase

 Chase has been denying anyone who has 5 or more applications for credit cards within the past 24 months, from ANY bank.  This applies for applications for the Chase-branded credit cards (such as Freedom, Sapphire or Ink).  From the data points that we have,people with many signups are still able to apply for Chase cards like the IHG or Hyatt cards.

The Chase 5/24 rule: which Chase cards are not eligible to people with many signups

chase-sapphireLooking back on what I wrote in August, it looks like we can update what we know about Chase’s rules

Defining it as those who have 5 or more credit card applications over the past 24 months from ANY bank, it looks like the Chase Freedom and Chase Sapphire Preferred are the cards that people with many credit card signups are currently locked out of.  Which is a bummer, because both of those cards currently have improved signup bonuses

(SEE ALSO: New Chase Sapphire Preferred 50000 point offer – best offer on this card I’ve seen)

(SEE ALSO: Increased Chase Freedom offer – up to 40,000 points after spending $3000)

If you’re an Authorized User on a card, that DOES seem to count towards your limit of 5, though there have been some reports of people getting an exception if they have fewer than 5 applications excluding the cards on which they are an Authorized User

The wiki in the relevant Flyertalk thread is a great resource on this subject that is kept mostly up-to-date.

So what cards do NOT fall under the Chase 5/24 rule?

chaseinkAs I mentioned in the original post, you still can apply for and get the Chase co-branded airline and hotel cards.  Reader Carl posted in a comment on the story about Marriott buying Starwood Hotels, referring to the Chase Marriott card

Sadly, I note that they are a co-brand of Chase and I am way past the “Chase 5 cards in 2 years sign-up punishment situation.” So I am not even gonna bother

I let him know that the Chase Marriott card was still open to people that have lots of credit card signups and a little while later, he emailed me back to let me know

WOOT!! You were right as rain! Used that link in your email and I am approved for the 70K Marriott card. Man, thanks for urging me to try the Chase thing after all

I had originally reported that the Chase Ink Plus and Chase Ink Cash cards were also blocked by the Chase 5/24 rule, and it appears at least anecdotally from this Flyertalk post that this is not the case – people with many accounts CAN still get the Chase Ink cards as well as the co-branded cards like the Chase IHG, Marriott, United, Hyatt, etc.

EDIT: While this was true at the time of this post, reports are now that the Chase Ink will fall under the Chase 5/24 rule in March 2016 and the Chase 5/24 rule will start applying to all Chase co-branded cards in April 2016.


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