Old Passport

[Redheadguy03 505]

I keep them they're a piece of my history. Heck, my mom kept our baby passports from when my mom was overseas in the military. They're actually pretty fun to look at. 

[austex 42]

Yes 27 different ID theft.  Included in that was 3 payday loans.  We lived in Australia for 16 years of our married life and nobody touched my husbands SSN but the moment we came here BAM!!! We didn’t have a credit rating and couldn’t get any credit ourselves but the thieves could - work that out.

 

i am just paranoid about leaving anything around with my name on it that is not in use.

 

M.

[gregcrs2 1,778]

Some countries allow you to legally have more than one passport.   There are situations where you don't want entry stamps from one country when traveling to another.  

[Sm1smom 250]

So are you saying you had your ID stolen 27 times in your first year of being in the US because of the old passport you kept, but never had your ID stolen in 16 years of living in Australia as you had been diligent in shredding old passports then? I’m sorry I clearly don’t see the correlation in having your ID stolen 27 times and keeping or shredding of old passports. I mean isn’t it weird that in spite of shredding old passports you still experienced an ID theft?