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Anything that needs that data I can do without. Besides that, they'd never believe it in the first place.

Would have to be able to do without many jobs in the USA! (Obviously glad though you’ve got your options and they’re sufficient.)

Also recommend to others keeping a list of all places from the past seven years.

WTF is it that employers think they can get out of the last 7 years of addresses? That's private information, absolutely none of their business.

It helps catch attempted identity theft. Lots of people who are not eligible for employment steal the identities of those who are. But they will have to make up any data they don’t know, or that is inapplicable because the true holder of that identity died a while ago.

So basically I just need to hire a professional with access to a data broker to tell me what a prospective employer already knows about me.

The Work Number might be a good start there. Salary history and stuff apparently.

That is correct. TWN has your full employment and pay history basically.

It's used for background checks to identify relevant criminal records, debt records, etc.

That information can be pulled as part of a background check, if that's required for the job.

>Would have to be able to do without many jobs in the USA!

I've literally never had a US employer ask me for prior addresses. That's in ~20 years of employment.

Hell, I've had employers that didn't ask for current address.

DHS requires 7 or so years of residence and travel history for Trusted Traveler Programs like Global Entry.

Well, I'm going to have to do without that then. This is no great loss because I had already decided to forego traveling to the US because the way the border guards treated me on my last visit was enough to make me decide I didn't need that kind of headache. They still owe me a pair of boots.

In the US you can pull your credit report to get that information.

As a non-citizen I don’t think you are eligible for TTP.

Edit: derp. See below.

Global Entry application is open to citizens of 22 additional countries in addition to US citizens.

Yup, I think it's 5 years but yes.

Helps identity verification (or theft I guess)

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