Being anally retentive (no, really!) I set about shredding all my old documents a few years ago - but scanned them all to an archive disk first!
I recall a similar struggle to get credit established when I moved to the US. In my case, I finally got a Discover card - Visa and Mastcard wouldn't touch me. Discover wasn't easy either. I had a reference faxed to them from my British bank and Visa card company; then Discover called and said they were suspicious about the documents. Turns out they thought the paper size was 'odd' - England uses A4 as a standard - and the spelling in some words was incorrect... yes, it was a handful of all those 'u' letters that America has disguarded from the English language!
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Date: 2007-09-06 02:06 pm (UTC)I recall a similar struggle to get credit established when I moved to the US. In my case, I finally got a Discover card - Visa and Mastcard wouldn't touch me. Discover wasn't easy either. I had a reference faxed to them from my British bank and Visa card company; then Discover called and said they were suspicious about the documents. Turns out they thought the paper size was 'odd' - England uses A4 as a standard - and the spelling in some words was incorrect... yes, it was a handful of all those 'u' letters that America has disguarded from the English language!