Cannot Link TBC VISA card to PayPal

[KingBuzz_]

I live in Georgia (ex USSR) and have a TBC Bank VISA card, which people say can be linked to paypal, but for some reason I get the following message:

Your card was declined by the issuing bank. Please try a different card or contact your card issuer with questions.

Now the VISA account IS a USD account so I don't see why I'd have problems linking the account. I've been to the bank and they say it's not a problem on their side, while PayPal Support says, it's not on their side either. It's really annoying that I've been struggling with this for 2 months now, considering my work is centered around PayPal payments.

Has anyone else had this problem and if you did, how did you solve this?

[PayPal_Martin]

Hi @KingBuzz,

Welcome to our Community!

If our support can see that the car has been declined by the bank there can be a few reasons. One of the main reasons we often get declines is because the name and address on the card do not match those on PayPal or it could be a technical issue with the bank or processor at the time. Please also make sure there is at least $1.50 on the card account balance, this is required for card verification, as it won't work if there is no balance on the card. 

Thanks

Martin

[KingBuzz_]

Hello, @PayPal_Martin 

Thanks for the advice. I successfully linked the card although I have a different problem now. For some reason, my debit VISA card is displayed as a credit card. Now I have made a purchase on Amazon using that exact card (i confirmed it successfully beforehand), but Amazon did not accept the payment and used a backup card that I had linked to the account. Do I have to manually withdraw the funds to the card every time or is there another outlying issue?

Thank you in advance,

Kingbuzz