Any CU suggestions ?

[Anonymous]

Using Plasticman's advice, I called NFCU and in 10 mins I was a member.

I called their 888 number, pressed * at the prompt, then #2 for membership and the lady I spoke to asked for my access code. I said I don't have one, I want to apply for membership and asked to speak to Member Services. She said she could help me with that and asked "On what basis do you seek membership?"

I told her my father is a retired officer of the US Army and that some of my friends got membership on those grounds and I would like to also. Without hesitation she approved me on those grounds and got all my info and my wife's info. So we're now both members with access codes. She also opened up a checking and savings account for me right over the phone. Cool beans.

Thanks, Plastic dude!

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Using Plasticman's advice, I called NFCU and in 10 mins I was a member.

I called their 888 number, pressed * at the prompt, then #2 for membership and the lady I spoke to asked for my access code. I said I don't have one, I want to apply for membership and asked to speak to Member Services. She said she could help me with that and asked "On what basis do you seek membership?"

I told her my father is a retired officer of the US Army and that some of my friends got membership on those grounds and I would like to also. Without hesitation she approved me on those grounds and got all my info and my wife's info. So we're now both members with access codes. She also opened up a checking and savings account for me right over the phone. Cool beans.

Thanks, Plastic dude!

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First, Welcome to the forums!

You are sincerely welcome.

Thank you for posting your success for all members to read. These boards are precisely for helping one another to benefit from. We have myFICO and all members whom participate to thank for it's existence.  

I am ecstatic to read that you are the fifth member on this thread to become a new member of NFCU. I wish you and your family the best of experiences with your new financial relationship.

edited to correct NFCU new member count on this thread

Message Edited by plasticman on 09-22-2009 05:36 PM

[haulingthescoreup]

Hey, hey, I'm the fourth!!! Ultra is the fifth!

Thanks again, plasticman. It would literally have never entered my mind to have tried that.

[Anonymous]

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@haulingthescoreup wrote:
Hey, hey, I'm the fourth!!! Ultra is the fifth!

Thanks again, plasticman. It would literally have never entered my mind to have tried that.

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LOL!

Duly noted and edited in my previous post.

I clearly skipped over your post, perhaps I did the same as you stated you did in your previous post yesterday?

Congratulations Hauling,

I could not be more pleased for you, in particular, for successfully joining NFCU. I finally had an opportunity to directly help you in some small way. I know I speak for all members when I say to you...Thank you Hauling, for all you have done for all of us!

ETA: Hauling, you are the fourth member on this thread to become a new member of NFCU.

Message Edited by plasticman on 09-22-2009 05:04 PM

[haulingthescoreup]

Well, that's very gracious of you to say! I'm sure not looking for credit, but I'm delighted to have another excellent CU in my bag. I feel like I have the trifecta now --USAA, PenFed, and Navy.

btw, I just pulled today's EQ full report, and still no soft (or hard) for membership.

I like the idea of taking my time to figure out which of their goodies I want to try first.

For anyone else who joined and delayed apping for products, did you happen to notice if they softed you after joining, but before you started shaking the money tree? I don't know if they start dangling offers on their own, or what. I need to go back and re-read all the Navy threads as a member, instead of as a moderator!

[wajj]

Plasticman, you deserve my thanks as well.

After 4 or 5 months of pining after NFCU membership and figuring that I could not get it (my father was retired Air Force but is deceased so obviously he could not open an account ) I was trying to set up membership going from my cousin (Army retiree), to my aunt (mother's sister), to my mother, to me.  Try to explain this one to the people involved

But, after reading this thread, I called up NFCU, explained the situation, and I was a member in 10 minutes -- literally no questions asked (even though I offered any informtion on my father that they would require).

Again, thank you for the information.

[Anonymous]

I understand that Navy Federal Credit Union has expanded its membership eligibility. Who now qualifies?

Navy Federal membership is now open to all Department of Defense (DoD) personnel.  This includes the following branches of the military service:  Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy (including the Marine Corps).  Also eligible are Coast Guard personnel assigned to, stationed at, or who work at a Department of Defense facility, and officer candidates and personnel of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London County, Connecticut who retained eligibility even though the Coast Guard is now under the Department of Homeland Security.  It also includes DoD contractors assigned to a U.S. Government facility, all military officer candidates, and civilian personnel employed by the U.S. Government and assigned to or working at a DoD site.  DoD retirees, and family members of the outlined areas above are also eligible.   For more information on membership, please go to our Web site, navyfederal.org, and click on the Membership link, which is located at the top right of our Home page, for details.

[mt2va]

I wish this thread had been around a few months ago when I joined.  I had to do some convincing to get my 78 year old father to open a savings account so he could sponsor me.  My mom finally talked him into it which I'm forever grateful.  I think the problem comes in when people try to app online because you have to have the access # of the person sponsoring you.  There is no way around that as I tried before I asked my dad to open an account & sponsor me.  I didn't realize I could call & open the account just by explaining my relationship eligibility. 

[Anonymous]

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@wajj wrote:

Plasticman, you deserve my thanks as well.

After 4 or 5 months of pining after NFCU membership and figuring that I could not get it (my father was retired Air Force but is deceased so obviously he could not open an account ) I was trying to set up membership going from my cousin (Army retiree), to my aunt (mother's sister), to my mother, to me.  Try to explain this one to the people involved

But, after reading this thread, I called up NFCU, explained the situation, and I was a member in 10 minutes -- literally no questions asked (even though I offered any informtion on my father that they would require).

Again, thank you for the information.

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You are welcome.

The shared experiences by all members now joining NFCU, posting on this thread, can be of value to many. I am humbled to read the thanks by any member, whom has posted such, on this thread.

You are now the sixth member, on this thread, whom has become new member of NFCU.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
I understand that Navy Federal Credit Union has expanded its membership eligibility. Who now qualifies?

Navy Federal membership is now open to all Department of Defense (DoD) personnel.  This includes the following branches of the military service:  Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy (including the Marine Corps).  Also eligible are Coast Guard personnel assigned to, stationed at, or who work at a Department of Defense facility, and officer candidates and personnel of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London County, Connecticut who retained eligibility even though the Coast Guard is now under the Department of Homeland Security.  It also includes DoD contractors assigned to a U.S. Government facility, all military officer candidates, and civilian personnel employed by the U.S. Government and assigned to or working at a DoD site.  DoD retirees, and family members of the outlined areas above are also eligible.   For more information on membership, please go to our Web site, navyfederal.org, and click on the Membership link, which is located at the top right of our Home page, for details.

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USMC58555,

Thank you for posting this information from the NFCU website.

It appears, the confusion for me initially, members here, previous threads I have read here dating back to at least the beginning of this year, and apparently some of the NFCU CSRs themselves, is due to the NFCU  membership eligibility website itself.

The NFCU website does not make it clear, in my opinion, that a non military family member may join NFCU if the military family member is not nor has ever been a member of NFCU, prior to the non military family member submitting a membership application to NFCU for approval.

It is clear this "silence" on the NFCU website can only mean one can , in fact, join NFCU based on this "silence".

It seems one is left to infer it is so.

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edited for clarity

Message Edited by plasticman on 09-23-2009 02:51 PM