7 Year Address History

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

When travel companies do a background check and request a 7 year address history, do you also have to include all the residences you used as a traveler? If so, how do you account for having two addresses that are "to the present" when only one in most online forms is allowed to be marked that way? This is assuming that you will be maintaining your tax home while you are living elsewhere on assignment and completing this form before the end of your assignment.

Hope this made sense the way I explained it, thanks!

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[NedRN]

Your "application" for a background check will not be turned down so feel free to fill it out as you please. Most of your addresses will come up anyway on the SSN trace. For the level of checking that most agencies do, not much matters. If you were trying to get a security clearance on the other hand...

[emb92250]

I thought only permanent addresses were required.

[NedRN]

What's a "permanent" address?

More seriously, you can commit felonies/misdemeanors anywhere. Addresses help narrow the search to specific locations. Many locations are not computerized so there is a large cottage industry of investigators that physically walk into thousands of courthouses nationwide just to check local criminal records. They need to know what locations to check.

Waste of time mostly for us, but you would be surprised what can pop up.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Speaking from experience moving around d/t the other half's military career while still maintaining a house in our home state...I list any address that I was physically living at, even if some of those addresses were only my residence for a few months.

You could call them and ask for guidance...I'm sure you wouldn't be the first one to have a question like this.

[caliotter3]

I would list both and delineate the difference. It really doesn't make any difference though, because when given a copy of an employment BI one time, all kinds of my previous and current addresses were listed with jumbled dates. The list was a mess of physical addresses and mailing addresses. When I did my list for SBI's for security clearances, though, I listed my physical addresses. At that time I did not have separate mailing addresses. There never was a problem in either instance. Nobody asked me to explain the "jumbled mess" that the private firm agency came up with. So I would decide how to do it and not worry. You can always ask your contact what they are looking for this time around.

[NedRN]

The jumbled mess came from the SSN trace most of which derives from credit reporting agencies. The information they have is supplied by various sources such as financial institutions, landlords, and utilities. They self report and are not held to any degree of accuracy or completeness. The result can be a bit of a mess, especially dates. It is not uncommon to see addresses that have nothing to do with you based on a misspelling or a similar name. The addresses you provide help "prove" it is really you in addition to the reasons I stated earlier.