Originally Posted by
jgodbey
Unfortunately my wife just got her green card about a year ago and we haven't started building credit for her yet. We tried applying for a few cards for her and the lenders said she didn't have any credit history (even though she's on my AMEX).
I went through the same thing a year ago.
I added my wife as an AU to three cards (using her SSN) with a long credit history and within a few months she had a score of 740. ^