Citi is offering a $300, $700, or up to $1,500 cash bonus when you open a Citi Priority Account with required activities.
To earn the bonus:
- Deposit New-to-Citi Funds into your new checking account within 20 days of account opening. The balance on your 20th day will determine your maximum eligible cash bonus. Maintain the required Minimum Balance in your eligible account for an additional 60 days from the 21st day.
- The cash bonus will be deposited to your open, eligible account within 90 calendar days after you complete all required activities.
| Cash Bonus | Minimum Deposit & Minimum Balance |
| $300 | $15,000 – $49,999 |
| $700 | $50,000 – $199,999 |
| $1,500 | $200,000+ |
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Citi Promotions
Citi Priority Account Up to $1,500 Cash Bonus
- Account Type: Citi Priority Account
- Monthly Fee: $30 or $0 when you maintain a combined average monthly balance of $50,000+ in eligible linked deposit, retirement and investment accounts. Certain “Checking Accounts” are eligible for the Welcome Checking Cash Bonus Offer. Your new Checking Account can be a Regular Checking Account in either the Citigold® Account Package, Citi Priority Package, Citibank® Account Package, or Basic Banking Package (only Regular Checking available for Basic) from the time you open your account until you receive your Bonus.
- Expiration Date: 07/17/2022
Fine Print
- Your Balance must be held in your eligible Checking Account
- Please understand if your Balance falls into a lower Balance Tier for even one day during the Maintenance Period, your Maximum Bonus will change (see Chart above).
- You cannot use a Citi Accelerate Savings Account or a Citi Savings Account to maintain your Balance as part of this offer and still be eligible to earn the Bonus
- So long as you have not owned a Citi checking account in the last 180 days, are at least 18 years old, and furnish or have a valid Form W-9 or Form W-8BEN on file with Citibank and are not subject to backup withholding, you can participate in the New to Citi Checking Cash Bonus Offer in select markets. Customers who open via phone or apply online with a residential/home (not mailing) address in an Eligible Location can qualify.
- A monthly service fee of $30 is applied to the Citi Priority Account Package if a combined average monthly balance of $50,000 or more is not maintained.
Bottom Line
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In your description of the deal, you say “While these cash bonuses seem enticing, you can earn more money by comparing them our our favorite bank offers across the US.” That appears to be untrue. I cannot find *any* deal where you can earn a sign-up bonus of more than $700 for a $50,000 deposit (with no direct deposit requirement and only 60 days requirement). Would you please point me to where I could earn more money with a $50k deposit? Thanks!
What about is I closed my accounts after 6 months do I have to pay the promotion back or there’s any penalty
I tried to open an account with them to get this bonus and you have to fund the account within 30 days of opening it. The problem I ran into is that you have to wait for them to send you a welcome package with a form you need to sign for tax purposes and then once they get that back, they will then send you a debit card which allows you to fund the account. This all has to happen within 30 days. I was 3 days off in the process and no longer qualified after calling them to finally fund my account. Waste of time!
My sincere advice to people is to stay away from Citibank. Their promotion is a scam and i fell for it. I opened checking and savings account and fulfilled all the requirements. They also gave me a promotion code when i opened the account. Since the date the requirements were fulfilled, i called and used chat message with them multiple times to inquire about cash bonus and every time they said the cash bonus would be paid on or before Jan 16th, which is when 90 days would be completed after the requirements are fulfilled. Yesterday i sent a message asking them about the cash bonus and the agent asked to call their one stop sales department. When i called the representative said that my account is not tagged with the promotion and hence the cash bonus cannot be paid. I was really pissed off and told the lady that i have the promotion code and the proofs (i had taken screen shots of the conversation i had with agents) and that i will explore legal options. The lady then said that she will escalate the issue, but i have to leave the accounts open until the investigation is complete. There was no guarantee that they would pay me the cash bonus and i didn’t want to leave big chunk of money with this bank. After going through this horrible experience i decided to pull my money and close the accounts.
How much does the direct deposit have to be? i do not see any specific amount. I just set mine up September 30th.
That w-9 form is gold to Citi. Have it on file or you will play hell getting your bonus.
It tooks me like 5 tries to get the w9 on file with Citi. Incredible. Did you end up getting your bonus?
The Cash Bonus will be credited within ninety (90) calendar days from the date you complete all required activities (see required activities below).
THIS IS DIFFERENT AND A CORRECTION FROM THE WEBSITE: When you’ll receive it: The bonus will be credited into the new personal checking account no later than 95 days from account opening.
re: citibank $500 bonus ending 6/30/19
Your blog says it is open to existing or new customers. I went to citibank and they said only new customers. Also when you click on link to citibank sire, it also says new cusstomers only
You are correct. It’s for new customers only.