I guy I know recently arrived here from Australia. He works for a company that maintains a database of all people throughout the world who have telephones. They have live connections to almost all phone companies and provide lookups for most major government agencies. The service is housed here in Atlanta. The same company also provides x.500 systems. As he does not have a social security number, and certainly does not care to get fingerprinted for a driver's license, he has found that he cannot cash a check or do simple things that require a social security number. A side issue that relates to his visa is that he also is not allowed to leave the country and go visit Australia for a certain period of time. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key