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Old Aug 1, 2012 | 1:32 pm
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Jesperss
10 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,312
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. ^
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