{"id":2211,"date":"2012-04-02T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2012-04-02T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:37:07","slug":"suitcase-top-5-tips-for-using-credit-cards-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/suitcase-top-5-tips-for-using-credit-cards-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitcase: Top 5 tips for using credit cards overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently ran across this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/melibeeglobal.com\/\">Melibee<\/a>\u2019s blog and thought everyone heading abroad soon should take a read.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/melibeeglobal.com\/2010\/08\/top-5-tips-for-using-credit-cards-for-study-abroad\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main takeaway points that author Missy Gluckmann points out are:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Read the credit card agreement<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/credit-cards1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2215\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/credit-cards1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Have a plan for when you will and won\u2019t use the credit card<\/li>\n<li>Notify the credit card company of your upcoming study abroad and tell them where you plan to study and travel<\/li>\n<li>Chip cards with a PIN (personal identification number) can often be more efficient abroad<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for an online bill payment to pay your credit card bill<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you\u2019re headed on one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/apply\">programs<\/a> soon, then be sure to read your Program Handbook thoroughly for all our suggested tips regarding money, credit cards and debit cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently ran across this post on Melibee\u2019s blog and thought everyone heading abroad soon should take a read. The full article can be found here. The main takeaway points that author Missy Gluckmann points out are: Read the credit card agreement Have a plan for when you will and won\u2019t use the credit card Notify the credit card company&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suitcase"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}