CONGRATS & WELCOME to the Barclays family!!!
Gardening Until Further Notice
Awesome limit!! Congrats!
Starting Score: 639 (Walmart TU)
Congrats! That's an excellent starting CL.
@dilettante wrote:First time applying for a Barclays cc, first time ever getting a "30 day notification" and first time calling a backdoor number. Thank you myFico forum for providing so much info to get through it all!
This afternoon, finally decided to app for the Barclay Arrival+ WEMC and found out for myself that applying for a Barclay cc can be very different than for other bank cc's.
Called in to app, a very nice CSR took all my info and hit submit and came back sounding sad and told me I would be getting a notification letter in 30 days. Having been spoiled with usually instant approvals, I was a little surprised and a bit worried. Especially since I know myFico TU is clean, no INQ's, and my score is 820.
Thanks to this site, found the backdoor #, called and spoke to a very friendly CSR to ask if there were any problems with my app or CR. She saw my app was still pending and said she would go through it with me and push it for a decision today. Since I'm a SAHM, she asked a lot of detailed questions about DH's employment and profession and asked if I had any and how much in assets I had in my name only as well as restating HHI.
She then looked at my CR, said it looked great and that my score shows up in the 800-850 range. She said that she didn't know why the computer didn't initially process it immediately and went into pending further review. I started wondering if stating occupation as "homemaker" with a very high income raises flags in the system, though it's never been a problem with other banks whether applying online or by phone.
CSR hit the submit button and got an instant approval for 20K.
Needless to say, I don't think I'll be applying for another Barclays card for a long time.
I think you hit it on the head a submission as homemaker stops auto approval, my sis apped with them as a home maker 2 weeks ago it was put on hold and then approved the next day without any interaction from her. I think this bank wants to review by human eyes all such apps. Grats on the approval and the fantastic CL 
Very nice!!!
congrats
@dilettante wrote:First time applying for a Barclays cc, first time ever getting a "30 day notification" and first time calling a backdoor number. Thank you myFico forum for providing so much info to get through it all!
This afternoon, finally decided to app for the Barclay Arrival+ WEMC and found out for myself that applying for a Barclay cc can be very different than for other bank cc's.
Called in to app, a very nice CSR took all my info and hit submit and came back sounding sad and told me I would be getting a notification letter in 30 days. Having been spoiled with usually instant approvals, I was a little surprised and a bit worried. Especially since I know myFico TU is clean, no INQ's, and my score is 820.
Thanks to this site, found the backdoor #, called and spoke to a very friendly CSR to ask if there were any problems with my app or CR. She saw my app was still pending and said she would go through it with me and push it for a decision today. Since I'm a SAHM, she asked a lot of detailed questions about DH's employment and profession and asked if I had any and how much in assets I had in my name only as well as restating HHI.
She then looked at my CR, said it looked great and that my score shows up in the 800-850 range. She said that she didn't know why the computer didn't initially process it immediately and went into pending further review. I started wondering if stating occupation as "homemaker" with a very high income raises flags in the system, though it's never been a problem with other banks whether applying online or by phone.
CSR hit the submit button and got an instant approval for 20K.
Needless to say, I don't think I'll be applying for another Barclays card for a long time.
Congratulations on your approval! Thanks for sharing. huge CL!
