What’s The Minimum Credit Limit For Visa Signature & Visa Infinite Credit Cards?

For some reason this post disappeared, so we are reposting.

Visa has several tiers of cards, the three main tiers are:

Both Visa Signature & Visa Infinite cards have a minimum credit limit. Let’s look at what it is for each.

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Visa Signature Minimum Credit Limit

It’s useful to know what the minimum credit limit is for Visa signature cards, because with Bank of America if you’re not eligible for that limit then you’ll automatically be reconsidered and approved for one of their lower cards such as Platinum Plus or Secured. These cards come with a much lower sign up bonus typically.

Officially the minimum credit limit for these cards is $5,000 – although it can be sometimes possible to be approved for a lower limit (except for cards issued by Bank of America).

Visa Infinite Minimum Credit Limit

It’s useful to know the minimum credit limit for Visa Infinite cards, because some cards are only issued as a Visa Infinite product (e.g Chase Sapphire Reserve & Chase Ritz-Carlton) and if a card issuer (e.g Chase) doesn’t want to extend you that minimum line of credit you’ll be denied for the card. Officially the minimum credit limit is $10,000 for Visa Infinite products, but some people have much lower limits as they were automatically upgraded to the Ritz Carlton Visa Infinite card.

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CO
CO (@guest_1196625)
May 26, 2021 22:56

I just got approved for the US Bank Altitude Reserve, which is a Visa Infinite, with a CL of $5k… Boo

Bill
Bill (@guest_699860)
January 3, 2019 14:36

I read on other sites that you can charge over your credit line (up to 2x) on Visa Signature cards, so long as you get the balance down to your CL before the statement closes. Is this true at Bank of America? It would have saved me a LOT of problems I had moving CL around last year in order to charge my income taxes!

willb
willb (@guest_648347)
September 27, 2018 03:22

What are the Best MINIMUM CREDIT LIMIT ( signature cards ) ? Any recommendations ?

jtsai13
jtsai13 (@guest_587954)
April 30, 2018 08:59

I have a Chase Hyatt card with credit limit 12k. Is it possible to upgrade to Visa infinite?

Naghman
Naghman (@guest_426993)
June 25, 2017 08:25

My Amazon Chase Visa Signature was originally approved for $1500, and 2 months later they upped it too $2500.

LWT
LWT (@guest_308441)
October 22, 2016 10:41

Just approved with a $4K limit on a Visa Signature for Citi Hhonors. Odd because Citi has always approved me for around $20K in the past. There hasn’t been any change in my churning pattern either.

Julien
Julien (@guest_303497)
October 4, 2016 21:21

Got an Ink plus with a $5k CL. I was way over 5/24 and had to call reconsideration to get approved.

FYI, the reasons I gave on the phone for applying for so many cards were “to get rewards” for each card that the Chase credit analyst asked about. Still resulted in an approval 😉

Ku
Ku (@guest_292494)
September 7, 2016 08:20

Data Point:

My Chase Hyatt (Visa Signatures) card is currently at $1,500. It was above $5K though when I was first approved for it.

My CapitalOne Spark card now is at $3K and also a Visa Signatures. It was a regular Visa Platinum when I was first approved for it with $1K starting credit limit.

tassojunior
tassojunior (@guest_292107)
September 6, 2016 01:04

But can the CL on an existing Signature or Infinite be lowered below 5K/10K ?

I churn a lot and don’t like existing cards hogging up my CL potential.

Wes
Wes (@guest_291868)
September 5, 2016 12:10

Thanks for reposting. I saw the article the other day and planned on coming back to it….when I did, it was gone. Thought I was losing my mind there for a second…