There are many advantages to having a credit card such as having extra money during hard times, and most of all during emergency cases.
Many places say they issue real credit cards to you but they either offer a trial to buy merchandise from their catalog or the credit line is so small that there's not a lot you can do with it.
Visa is now offering a secured credit-card that will allow you to get up to $5000 in credit.
For those who cannot apply for unsecured credit-card, this is the first step in building an unsecured credit line and getting you established in the financial world.
Granted you do not have to use the whole $5000, however establishing a line of credit to either buy a car, buy a house or to simply build your credit up for the future is a smart thing to do as it will open doors or shut them, depending on what your score is.
So if you need a credit-card and you tired of looking at merchandise offers, you can now get a real visa and start establishing real financial history that will follow you all through life.
The advantages of having a secured credit card are that there are no credit checks and you can get approved for this visa regardless of your credit history,even if you have filed for bankruptcy.
After holding a secured credit card for some time, you can go to any bank and get any unsecured credit card that you want.
Again, if you have bad credit this is the first step and this is the only step that you can take towards an unsecured Visa card.
Once you keep a secured credit card for a few months, then you can get approved for any unsecured credit card you want.
Unsecured creditors only one to see a positive payment history on a creditcard.
Your creditors only want to see a pattern of payments on revolving credit, once this happens, the sky is the limit.