diff --git a/constants/countries.ts b/constants/countries.ts
index 01c8baca6..f5bd4ec3e 100644
--- a/constants/countries.ts
+++ b/constants/countries.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export const COUNTRIES: Country[] = [
   { code: 'CM', name: 'Cameroon' },
   { code: 'CA', name: 'Canada' },
   { code: 'CV', name: 'Cape Verde' },
+  { code: 'KY', name: 'Cayman Islands' },
   { code: 'CF', name: 'Central African Republic' },
   { code: 'TD', name: 'Chad' },
   { code: 'CL', name: 'Chile' },
@@ -68,14 +69,17 @@ export const COUNTRIES: Country[] = [
   { code: 'GE', name: 'Georgia' },
   { code: 'DE', name: 'Germany' },
   { code: 'GH', name: 'Ghana' },
+  { code: 'GI', name: 'Gibraltar' },
   { code: 'GR', name: 'Greece' },
   { code: 'GD', name: 'Grenada' },
   { code: 'GT', name: 'Guatemala' },
+  { code: 'GG', name: 'Guernsey' },
   { code: 'GN', name: 'Guinea' },
   { code: 'GW', name: 'Guinea-Bissau' },
   { code: 'GY', name: 'Guyana' },
   { code: 'HT', name: 'Haiti' },
   { code: 'HN', name: 'Honduras' },
+  { code: 'HK', name: 'Hong Kong' },
   { code: 'HU', name: 'Hungary' },
   { code: 'IS', name: 'Iceland' },
   { code: 'IN', name: 'India' },
@@ -83,10 +87,13 @@ export const COUNTRIES: Country[] = [
   { code: 'IR', name: 'Iran' },
   { code: 'IQ', name: 'Iraq' },
   { code: 'IE', name: 'Ireland' },
+  { code: 'IM', name: 'Isle of Man' },
   { code: 'IL', name: 'Israel' },
   { code: 'IT', name: 'Italy' },
+  { code: 'CI', name: 'Ivory Coast' },
   { code: 'JM', name: 'Jamaica' },
   { code: 'JP', name: 'Japan' },
+  { code: 'JE', name: 'Jersey' },
   { code: 'JO', name: 'Jordan' },
   { code: 'KZ', name: 'Kazakhstan' },
   { code: 'KE', name: 'Kenya' },
@@ -105,6 +112,7 @@ export const COUNTRIES: Country[] = [
   { code: 'LT', name: 'Lithuania' },
   { code: 'LU', name: 'Luxembourg' },
   { code: 'MK', name: 'North Macedonia' },
+  { code: 'MO', name: 'Macao' },
   { code: 'MG', name: 'Madagascar' },
   { code: 'MW', name: 'Malawi' },
   { code: 'MY', name: 'Malaysia' },
@@ -183,6 +191,7 @@ export const COUNTRIES: Country[] = [
   { code: 'TN', name: 'Tunisia' },
   { code: 'TR', name: 'Turkey' },
   { code: 'TM', name: 'Turkmenistan' },
+  { code: 'TC', name: 'Turks and Caicos Islands' },
   { code: 'TV', name: 'Tuvalu' },
   { code: 'UG', name: 'Uganda' },
   { code: 'UA', name: 'Ukraine' },
diff --git a/hooks/useCardSteps/useCardSteps.ts b/hooks/useCardSteps/useCardSteps.ts
index 767d4ed84..ddd5e7f02 100644
--- a/hooks/useCardSteps/useCardSteps.ts
+++ b/hooks/useCardSteps/useCardSteps.ts
@@ -255,9 +255,8 @@ export function useCardSteps(
      * ended up on Rain permanently: the Didit session creates a card customer
      * that defaults to Rain, and nothing ever rewrites it.
      *
-     * Ask instead of guessing. This is the same screen the Sumsub branch
-     * below uses, and it is only reached when the IP lookup failed too — a
-     * country that resolved keeps going without an extra step.
+     * Ask instead of guessing. This is the same screen the declared-country
+     * check below sends to; it is split out only so the event says why.
      */
     if (!countryCode) {
       track(TRACKING_EVENTS.CARD_KYC_FLOW_TRIGGERED, {
@@ -292,29 +291,33 @@ export function useCardSteps(
         router.push(path.CARD_PENDING as any);
         return;
       }
+    }
 
-      /**
-       * Sumsub card sessions REQUIRE a country the user declared themselves —
-       * an IP guess is refused server-side, because `user.country` pins which
-       * issuer serves them and nothing writes it back. Ask here rather than
-       * letting the session fail: this is the entry point the home setup step
-       * uses (`useHomeSetupSteps` calls this action directly rather than
-       * `startCardOnboarding`), so it is reached with no gate having run at
-       * all, and `resolveKycProvider` deliberately does not persist the
-       * country it routes on.
-       *
-       * The selection screen writes `source: 'manual'` and re-enters the flow
-       * via `/card/activate?countryConfirmed=true`, so this asks once.
-       */
-      if (useCountryStore.getState().countryInfo?.source !== 'manual') {
-        track(TRACKING_EVENTS.CARD_KYC_FLOW_TRIGGERED, {
-          action: 'country_selection_required',
-          kycProvider,
-          countryCode,
-        });
-        router.push(path.CARD_COUNTRY_SELECTION as any);
-        return;
-      }
+    /**
+     * Every card verification, Didit included, starts from a country the user
+     * declared themselves. This is the entry point the home setup step uses
+     * (`useHomeSetupSteps` calls this action directly rather than
+     * `startCardOnboarding`), so it is reached with no gate having run at all.
+     *
+     * Sumsub refuses an IP guess server-side, so that branch always needed
+     * this. Didit used to skip it, and the IP answer then picked the issuer:
+     * a Hong Kong resident whose IP resolved to Singapore was routed to Didit,
+     * which created a Rain card customer that nothing rewrites, in a Didit
+     * questionnaire that does not offer Hong Kong. The backend only refuses a
+     * Didit card session for a country Wirex serves, and an IP in a Rain-only
+     * market gives it nothing to refuse on.
+     *
+     * The selection screen writes `source: 'manual'` and re-enters the flow
+     * via `/card/activate?countryConfirmed=true`, so this asks once.
+     */
+    if (useCountryStore.getState().countryInfo?.source !== 'manual') {
+      track(TRACKING_EVENTS.CARD_KYC_FLOW_TRIGGERED, {
+        action: 'country_selection_required',
+        kycProvider,
+        countryCode,
+      });
+      router.push(path.CARD_COUNTRY_SELECTION as any);
+      return;
     }
 
     router.push((kycProvider === KycProvider.SUMSUB ? path.SUMSUB_KYC : path.KYC) as any);