>>I just am dying to know/see if he ends up getting the card!!<<
Again, that was at best a secondary agenda when I wrote Disney and Bank One (never asked either to "give me "a second look"); my primary focus was to communicate my discontent at how the program was being run.
That stated, as mentioned in my first post, something "must have happened" when my second letter got to Disney and Bank One (per the certified mail return reciepts, that was on Monday 4/14).
For when I came onto these boards on 4/17, learned of the "application update' phone number and out of curiousity called it, I got that "your application is under review" message. That was surprising given I'd already been delcined a month earlier (and had NOT subsequently re-applied).
Yesterday, I called again, got the same message and subsequently hit "0" to get to one of the so-called "advisors" (which is code for First USA phone staff out in the middle of South Dakota).
I explained to her (politely) my confusion over my status (ergo, I applied back in February, got a declination letter in mid March, then found in mid April that the update system was saying my application was "still" under review). She confirmed that "under review" message wasn't some system fluke, and that my application was indeed "active and in process."
I even asked her if that possibly just meant someone was reviewing my app to respond to my 3/26 letter asking for more information on why I ws declined, and she said "no - they don't make apps active to do that; your app is active, and that status only shows up if you are actually being considered for a card."
So, something apparently got Bank One to raise my file from the ashes, albeit exactly what is unclear (again, I suspect -- strongly suspect -- it was an unanticipated side effect of the second letter I sent to Disney and copied Bank One on, but have no proof of that).
Whatever, the outcome of this "re-look" is still unclear: discussion on other threads here has shown that "your app is under review" message doesn't give one any sense of which way the wind is blowing.
Or stated differently, jury still out, more to come.