Preparing ahead. You'd like to think the simplest thing would be a letter from your employer stating your position, salary, and length right? Especially if you've been there for over 7 years. Just have my manager type that up and put it on company letterhead and volla, done. Not so says my supervisor, manager, senior manager, and even director. You see, I work for a company that employs over 180,000+ (conservative number) employees worldwide. Can't say which one but it's a Telecom company which offers a variety of services. They use what's call theworknumber.com to have employee verification for anybody. My HR department would not write up a letter nor my higher ups. They have their reason in which they are not allow to discuss. I'm assuming they don't want me to sell that information over to America's enemy.



This is my only choice. I plan on printing all the emails from my higher ups and HR and show to the CO when the time comes with the person info blacked out in front of them of course. Basically you need to give them the info from theworknumber.com as we cannot just write one up and we can't tell you the reason why. Must be something so secret that they only refer to it as "Killer weapons of the new world order" or something gloomy like that.

This is a legitimate business origination which also includes government and commercial business. In fact, many mortgage lenders have accounts on it and will ask you for theworknumber "salarykey" to verify your employment as they value that more than a written document. Anyone else run into this? Would a third party vendor's database stating that I work for employer xyz and has all the info they need be enough? Not to mention my W2 for the past 7 years with the same company name, IRS Tax transcrip for the past 3 years, paystub, and so on and so forth.

I wouldn't sweat it too much. There are a lot of employer's who no longer write out employment letters so the last few pay stubs as well as the tax receipts for the last three years should do. You could also write a letter explaining the reason a letter of employment is not available.

Do you still have the Offer Letter, from when you were first hired? It seems like that and recent pay stubs, tax returns etc. should do the trick.

It seems like companies these days want to even avoid the slightest possibility of getting sued. If you tried to get a job reccomendation from them, if you ever apply for a different job I bet you'ld get the same kind of result.

Good Luck!

That must be it. I knew there's a reason for their madness. I don't have the offer letter as that was 7 years ago and my base pay is alot higher now. I'll just print out the info from that business and give it to them. Had to verify I worked for my employer by entering my SSN#, DOB, Employee ID, and employer id just to register and charge it to my credit card. Charge it to my credit card to get MY INFO!!!! Around $15 a pop. I'll put up a "salarykey" in case the consulate want to use their credit card to get the same info.

I'm planning on attending the interview with my fiance. I can print out the paystub for the past 2 years if I wanted to. They also hire a 3rd party company to keep track of payroll and paystub. Printing out the last paystub of 2005 and 2006 as it includes the total amount I made. Paystub from January 1st onward as well. Not to mention my other tax documents.