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[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm an American living abroad and I use a VoIP service to maintain my US number. It had actually gotten more difficult to do this because of the changes they are making.

A few weeks ago I needed to submit docs proving I was a legitimate business with US tax id and whatnot.. If you don't have that, you have to provide an alternate number from a traditional phone contract of someone who lives in the US. Unless I were to pay for a phone subscription in America, there is no option for an individual to do this independently. I needed to use a family member's number.

My American phone number is very much necessary but I only use it on very rare occasions.. Paying something like $30-40 per month for an American phone contract (that I'll never use) plus the $15-20 per month fee for the voip provider is excessive.

If they just had an id verification system for American citizens and didn't tie it to a domestic account holder, that would be something.

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's working correctly.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It is.. For better or worse..

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Like my ssn which was stolen in the last decade that I just got back under COVID relief because I couldn’t get it back without stolen copies of prior filings?