HOUSEHOLD EMPLOYEES OR IN-HOME HELP - VALIDATE THEIR IDENTITY

At KnightsBridge Castle we advise clients to check the documentation of household employees, contractors, gardening help, health care workers, and others who visit your home, in order to reduce their exposure to identity theft. Theft of information and critical documentation in the home, by household employees or contractor labor is all too common.

In checking the documentation of permanent residents who are not citizens most of us know that we need to see a “Green Card”. Unfortunately most of us don’t know what a “Green Card” looks like and clients are usually very surprised to discover that there is not much “Green” on the card.

The “Green Card” is not easy to forge and some identity thieves have been known to use personal computers and digital printers to create their own original “Green Card”. These home brew cards are often given green backgrounds and look official although they do not resemble the real thing.

Attached is a slightly distorted image of a real “Green Card”. When checking a potential home employee or contractor/laborers you can compare their card with this fuzzy picture of a valid one.

A word of caution -- The US Government is revising its identity document stratigies in the face of 9/11. Future documents may appear different than the one pictured here. We will update this information when new images are available.