Contributor
Happychap
Posts: 164
Registered: ‎10-25-2011
Re: Amex Financial Review – Lessons learned

bs6054 wrote:

I'm still amazed that they accept the application, do the backdating, then ask for FR.  Obviously works well for you and I guess not a big deal to them.


Good point. I have always been surprised that I get instant approvals and not the FR during application process.  However, it appears it takes a day or two for the system to FR me. It took 24 hrs for the member date to change from 2013 to my actual member date.  So I think even though you get approved instantly there is still processing going on afterwards.   Maybe if I were a borderline based on credit profile I would get FR during the process of the manual review.