Vijaya Bank VISA Global Chip Card
CancelTwo and a half percent abroad, from a bank in Bangalore nobody expected it from.
no published earn rate to price
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What it's worth to you, after the fee
Welcome: Nothing published — Vijaya Bank advertised no joining gift on this card, only the fee it charged to issue it
Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. Everything we can source — the fee, the charges, the migration that put this card in your hand — is above and stands on its own; this card is simply not on the board, not in the calculator, and cannot win a best-of call until Vijaya Bank publishes terms we can cite.
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3 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · the network variants · why it ranks #996
Why #996 A state-owned bank's global Visa at ₹1,000 a year with a 2.5% forex markup — a full point under India's norm, and the only genuinely travel-shaped thing about it. Carried for the record; Vijaya Bank was merged into Bank of Baroda on 1 April 2019.
The take
Vijaya Bank's global Visa is a plain card with one number worth noticing: the bank's own Charges of Cards table prices the markup on overseas transactions at 2.5%, against the 3.5% that almost every Indian issuer charged and still charges. On a ₹2 lakh foreign trip that is ₹2,000 back in your pocket, from a card costing ₹1,000 a year. The rest is a state bank's card, built the way state banks built them. Three-year validity, chip and PIN, accepted at twenty-two million merchant outlets worldwide including a lakh in India. Free credit up to fifty days if you never touch the revolving option, and if you do, 1.75% a month with a minimum payment of 25% — an unusually high floor that gets you out of debt faster than the 5% everyone else charges. Instant cash up to half the limit, capped at ₹50,000, at 3% plus ₹75 at another bank's Indian ATM or ₹100 abroad. Add-on cards for a spouse, parents or children over eighteen were lifetime free, and an NRI could nominate a resident to hold one. The card limit started at ₹75,000 and had no published ceiling, which is unusual and probably means the branch decided. Getting one needed a Vijaya Bank account plus one of three things: ₹1,20,000 of gross annual income if salaried and ₹1,00,000 if self-employed, or a ₹1,00,000 term deposit held two years or more, or an existing credit facility of ₹5 lakh. Companies with ₹20 lakh of paid-up capital could sponsor at least three officials, and were billed for three cards whether they took two or three. One loyalty point per ₹100 was the earn, and Vijaya never once printed what a point was worth. On 1 April 2019 the bank was amalgamated into Bank of Baroda.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
There is no renewal arithmetic to run on this card yet — and a break-even we cannot source is not one we will print.
the whole desk — what changed, the downgrade, and what we cannot price →
Keep, downgrade or cancel
what we can and cannot price
Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. A break-even is the spend at which value crosses a fee, and we are short one side of that sentence — so this desk prints no ladder, no crossing and no ₹0 standing in for either. What we can source about this card is under Sources.
Your copy of this card
You hold this card.
Kept on this device, in your browser. It is never sent to us, never synced, and nothing else on the site reads it yet.
The downgrade
Vijaya Bank publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and we cannot price either side of it.
If you call to cancel
What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →
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What's good
- A 2.5% markup on overseas transactions, a full point under India's 3.5% norm
- Valid worldwide at twenty-two million merchant outlets, a lakh of them in India
- Lifetime-free add-on cards for a spouse, parents and children over eighteen, and NRIs could nominate a resident holder
- Free credit of up to fifty days if you never opt into revolving
- Revolving at 1.75% a month with a 25% minimum payment — a high floor that clears the balance faster
- Instant cash up to half the card limit, capped at ₹50,000
- A minimum card limit of ₹75,000 and no published maximum
- Insurance against fraudulent use on transactions made after you report the card lost
- Transaction details e-mailed weekly and on the billing day, free
Watch out
- WITHDRAWN — Vijaya Bank was amalgamated into Bank of Baroda on 1 April 2019 and this card was not carried forward under its own name
- YEAR ONE COST ₹2,000, NOT ₹1,000: the bank collected a one-time entrance charge of ₹1,000 alongside the first ₹1,000 of annual subscription at issue, and the fee surfaces here can only show the recurring half
- THE POINT HAS NO PUBLISHED VALUE: one loyalty point per ₹100 is the whole reward story, and Vijaya never printed a rupee-per-point rate anywhere
- No airport lounge of any kind — only Vijaya's RuPay card ever carried one
- You had to bank with Vijaya Bank first; there was no route in for anyone else
- It could not be used to pay in foreign exchange to parties resident in Nepal or Bhutan
- Cash advances cost 3% plus ₹75 at another Indian bank's ATM or ₹100 at one abroad
- A company applying for one or two cards was charged the entrance fee and annual subscription for three
What these points actually fly
Vijaya Bank has not published what this card earns, so there are no points here to fly with — not zero points, and not points that go nowhere: nothing stated either way. The moment a benefit sheet exists we will price whatever it names.
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Lounge access
0 of 793 tracked doors
No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →
Can you get it?
the route in — no cutoffs published
The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.
Closed to new applications — existing cardholders keep the card; there is no way in.
You cannot. Vijaya Bank ceased to exist as a licensed bank on 1 April 2019, when it was amalgamated into Bank of Baroda. While it was open you had to hold a Vijaya Bank account and clear one of three bars: ₹1,20,000 of gross annual income if salaried or ₹1,00,000 if self-employed, a term deposit of ₹1,00,000 held two years or more, or an existing credit facility of ₹5 lakh and above. Companies needed ₹20 lakh of paid-up capital, audited accounts and at least three sponsored officials.
Vijaya Bank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.
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What's changed for this card
nothing tracked yet — which is itself a fact
No tracked devaluations or changes yet — this card's history starts here.
Verified against Vijaya Bank's own documents on
Not published , and we will not invent it: the earn rate and the currency it earns.
Every document behind this page — 2 of them, each with the day we read it
- official Vijaya Bank's VISA Global Chip Credit Card page (archived 06-Jan-2019) — the eligibility bars, the fees, the card limits and the loyalty-point accrual
- official Vijaya Bank's Charges of Cards page (archived 06-Aug-2016) — the two-column credit-card fee table, including the 2.5% overseas markup