Setting up Social Security cards and bank accounts proved to be a real headache.
The Senate bill calls for tamper-proof Social Security cards and pushes to collect more biometric information from immigrants, but it stops short of requiring a full-fledged biometric I.
Experts also recommend storing bank records, important contact information for creditors and insurance companies, as well as copies of social security cards and drivers licenses in a safe, second location.
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The higher fees and burdensome documentation requirements--such as proof of address and Social Security cards--pushed immigrants into informal channels to send money overseas more quickly, less expensively and with fewer questions.
While some thefts come from stolen wallets containing Social Security cards and the like, thieves also are filching Social Security numbers in sneakier ways, such as from health-care or financial databases.
To his amazement, Inglis was confronted on the campaign trail by voters who were convinced that numbers on their Social Security cards indicated that a secret bank had bought them at birth.
She later got a license after she qualified for the federal program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows young illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. and obtain work-authorization forms and Social Security cards.
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Gather any originals or copies of valuable documents, which might include credit card numbers, Social Security cards, birth certificates, passports, bank account information, discs of photos for insurance purposes, and a utility bill to provide proof of where your home is (or was) located.
Remove unnecessary credit cards, your Social Security card, and other unneeded documents that could compromise your identity if lost or stolen while on vacation.
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But now, forward to 2007, Bank of America is offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants.
We give out our social security numbers when we forget our charge cards while shopping, and use supermarket loyalty cards that log our buying habits into giant data warehouses.
According to investigators, there was no activity on Melisa Sloan's credit cards, bank accounts, Social Security number or driver's license.
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Even in Belgium, which has had compulsory identity cards since 1919, social-security information is kept on a separate bit of plastic.
Pretty much you bring in your check, show the clerk a valid ID, then on this little machine, I believe is also used for swiping credit and debit cards, the customer inputs their social security number.
Some banks might require local identification cards or the local equivalent of a Social Security number.
But for everyone born in the past 20 years, Acquisti said, something besides the Social Security number should be used for bank accounts and credit cards.
You'll see your credit cards, your driver's license and quite possibly something with your Social Security number on it.
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