<prompt> Human: Hello all! I have appreciated your help over the years and would like your input on something. We opened an amazon credit card through chase over the summer with a 6,000 limit and yesterday I called for a credit line increase and was immediately approved after answering simple questions like how much money I make pretax per year and how much my rent is. I have two other credit cards under my name and have had my credit line increase at least 2 times on each one. Fast forward to today, when checking my credit karma account my equifax score went down 2 points not a huge deal, I know and I go to check it out and it says that I have another hard inquiry from chase the first one was from opening the card from my credit line increase. Neither of my other 2 cards had hard inquiries when I requested this a credit line increase. My questions are: Is this normal? Has anyone experienced a hard inquiry from chase or other companies based on this request?Is there anything I can do to get the hard inquiry removed? Should I call and see if chase can do anything?Is there a way to avoid this in the future? Thanks in advance!  <response>: Credit inquiries when you ask for an increase are normal, as far as Ive seen. Some cards will give you automatic or courtesy increases if its part of the way they normally operate, and that would not require one. When you request it, theyll usually do a check, though. This is just my experience so I might be wrong. 