Amex Centurion USA application declined with Canadian SSN/SIN
Mar 16, 2021, 12:03 am
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Amex Centurion USA application declined with Canadian SSN/SIN
I transfered to Amex US 10+ years ago through the global transfer program. I was recently invited to the Centurion program. During signup I provided my Canadian SSN as I don't have a US SSN but was declined as they couldn't pull up my credit. Any way around this? Thank you very much!
Mar 16, 2021, 5:01 am
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Do you have any other USA -issued cards, loans, mortgages, etc? If not, there may not be a USA credit history. If yes, how did you open them without a USA SSN?
Mar 16, 2021, 8:41 am
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Mar 16, 2021, 10:20 am
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I transfered to Amex US 10+ years ago through the global transfer program. I was recently invited to the Centurion program. During signup I provided my Canadian SSN as I don't have a US SSN but was declined as they couldn't pull up my credit. Any way around this? Thank you very much!
Mar 16, 2021, 12:51 pm
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Mar 16, 2021, 2:12 pm
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Have you ever filed a US tax return? If so, then you'll have an ITIN in lieu of a SSN. It's the same format number from the same numberspace, so I'd use that. A quick check in Google says that Amex will accept it. Whether that will link to a credit report or not is another matter, and whether the results of that will affect a Centurion application is yet another matter. But completing the application with an ITIN may at least get you past the point of "the application can't be processed without this number."