I had already recently opened two Amex Open business cards; a Green Rewards and Simply Cash Plus. These cards were very easy to open; both were instant approval using a SP and I received both cards within 3 business days without needing rush delivery. Business Green came with a 5,000 MR sign up and Simply Cash Plus has no sign up (I know I know). I decided that I wanted a Chase Ink card due to the longer intro 0.00% APR period, $500 sign up bonus and the fact that it was on the Visa network. Chase could learn a few things from Amex. Below I will outline the time line for my Chase Ink card as well as some other data points. I would like to see you all add more data points to your posts besides "I've been approved!", especially since some business cards can be harder to get than personal cards and your experience could benefit everybody. As it is, I had to get info on the Ink cards from other forums.....
6/14/18: Applied online for Ink Unlimited; received screen indicating that Chase would review the application and let me know in 30 days (the application hotline mirrored this information).
6/18/18: Application hotline changed from 30 days to 7-10 days 
6/21/18: Received a letter from Chase indicating that they needed to verify "Physical street address for authorizing officer" and that the documents sent (photo ID, utility bill etc) needed to be no more than 3 months old.
6/25/18: Sent via snail mail a copy of my driver license, vehicle registration, wireless phone bill (which actually does not count by the way, I was just being annoying by sending it) and a copy of one of my health insurance explanation of benefits 
7/2/18: Called application hotline, 7-10 days turned back into 30 days
7/5/18: Called application hotline, "you've been approved, you will receive your new card within 10 business days" and then the application hotline told me of my credit access line, the intro APR, when it expires and what the APR is, currently, after the intro period expires.
7/13/18: Finally got the darn card in the mail. The card was sent without the need for activation ( ) used the card to pay cell phone bill right away with no issues.
7/15/18: Had to call to have online account management set up; they told me there was no way to add business cards to personal card log in...annoying but its fine.
Data points:
Small, side consulting business; 2 years, $2,000 revenue-sole proprietor, 100% personal guarantee, no EIN, applied with my SSN, used my name as business name.
Pulled EX (in Colorado): 816
$90,000 stated income
Officially 2/24 (NFCU 8/16 and USAA 11/17-the two Amex business accounts opened recently do not report to personal bureau)
Approved for $12,000
0.00% intro APR on purchases and balance transfers, expires 8/3/19
14.74% ongoing APR (at current Prime Rate) after
**This card has a higher credit line and lower APR than both my current Chase personal cards....go figure (especially since Amex gave me one of their highest APRs on Simply Cash Plus:18.99%)
TLR For most of us, the Chase Ink cards are not as simple to obtain as Amex Open cards. Patience is a virtue; just because you get a 7-10 day response doesn't necessarily mean you've been declined, you may just need to send verification. For Chase Ink cards it is best not to call Chase (unless you want to be interrogated), be patient and let the process happen...even if it takes 30 days. I probably could have reduced my waiting time by visiting a Business Relationship Manager at a Chase Branch to have the required documents faxed in.
Hopefully that covers everything and can help some of you out! I am really glad to have an Ink card and it was worth the waiting.
Congrats on the approval CO_NATIVE. I will be under 5/24 for the first time in almost 5 years in about 3 more weeks and plan to app for the no AF version of this card. Hopefully if approved they'll treat me a little better than they did a few years ago with my other 3 Chase cards--especially since my profile has improved dramatically since then.
BUSINESS 
Appreciate the post and the data points CO_NATIVE.
I have an Ink Cash running as a SP that they never complained about, but setting up a new LLC and will need to establish some tradelines for it as well as a new card to keep everything seperate. Likewise looking at the Ink Business Preferred, though I expect to go down to the bank and try to do it when I setup the accounts for the new business.
Oddly I just realized I'm at 2/24 now, whee, had forgotten that applied to business accounts too.
CO_NATIVE ... congrats on your approval! Will add that I have my business and personal cards etc all linked to one landing page sign in. Do see another poster already said it. I will confirm it and add I have had the combined sign in for all products for over thirteen years so some one at Chase has "no clue" ... so what's new with CSRs? 
@Anonymous wrote:CO_NATIVE ... congrats on your approval! Will add that I have my business and personal cards etc all linked to one landing page sign in. Do see another poster already said it. I will confirm it and add I have had the combined sign in for all products for over thirteen years so some one at Chase has "no clue" ... so what's new with CSRs?
They had to generate a new login for me to merge up the personal and business accounts... couldn't just stuff it on my original account.
This might be what the CSR was thinking in their experience; note this was 4 years ago they may have changed that in their infrastructure as it struck me as stupid back then too.
Now my SP accounts which I don't really care much about (the checking balance doesn't move, and the Cash is just on autopay) are front and center when I login and I actually have to work a bit to get to my personal accounts that my financial life runs through, especially in the web interface.
