UOB Spend Promo: Get 5 Miles Per Dollar on Overseas Spend With UOB PRVI Miles
It’s holiday season and banks are doling out promos for overseas spending! With UOB PRVI Miles, you can get 5 miles per dollar provided you meet the spend requirement and make overseas dining and/or shopping transactions.
The promo is on until 31st December 2024, and a minimum spend of S$1,500 in foreign currency is required. This would be a good promo to go with the ongoing UOB PRVI Miles sign-up offer.
Registration is required
Registration is required and needs to be done via SMS. Send a text message to 77862 in the following format:
PMX<space>Last 4 alphanumeric characters of your NRIC or Passport Number
Example: If your NRIC is S1234567A, you will need to send “PMX 567A” to 77862.
Eligible spend – in-person dining and shopping only
Transactions must be done in-person and on specific dining and shopping Merchant Category Codes (MCC) only.
Bonus 2 or 2.6 miles per dollar capped at 13,000 miles
There is a minimum spend requirement of S$1,500 on foreign currency transactions (even outside of the above MCCs) before cardholders will get the bonus earn rate.
When the minimum is met, eligible foreign currency transactions will get bonus miles (in the form of UNI$):
| Base Earn Rate | Bonus Earn Rate | Max Spend | |
| THB, MYR, IDR, VND Spend | 3 miles per dollar | 2 miles per dollar | S$6,500 |
| Other Countries | 2.4 miles per dollar | 2.6 miles per dollar | S$5,000 |
The maximum amount of bonus miles given is 13,000. This is reached by spending S$6,500 in Thai Baht, Malaysian Ringgit, Indonesian Rupiah and/or Vietnamese dong, or S$5,000 in other foreign currencies.
Do note that the transactions have to be made in person – online spend does not get bonus miles.
Alternatives
While 5 miles per dollar is a pretty good earn rate to have, note that you have to pay foreign currency fee of 3.25%. This works out to a mile procurement rate of roughly 0.65 cents per mile which is a great rate to buy miles at.
However, my gripe about this promo would be the minimum spend and MCC requirements. MCCs of shops/restaurants can sometimes be off, especially overseas, meaning to say that you can dine at a restaurant and have the transaction coded as something totally different.
This is why I would prefer using DBS’s promo instead, which just needs your spend to be in foreign currency. It also has a lower spend requirement of S$1,000 and does not need your spend to be online. The downside would be that there is a cap of S$2,000 of spend, and you have to be one of the first 10,000 to register for the promo.
Besides these promos, I’ve done a comparison between travel cards that you can consider using for your next trip:
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Seth Wee was a licensed financial adviser representative from 2009 to 2025, with over 16 years of experience in Singapore’s financial advisory industry.
He started Sethisfy.com in 2019 to share practical insights on credit cards, banking products, and miles strategies, helping readers identify financial products that deliver the best value. Seth has been featured in CNA, Channel 8, Today, and a host of other publications. In 2025, he was also part of a panel at CPF’s Ready For Life festival.
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