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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I didn't pay a $50 seatbelt ticket I got in Washington State in the 90s. They gave our van $1000 in speeding and seatbelt tickets. I can't remember why we weren't wearing them, I generally always wear mine. Thought they had long since forgot about me....
Then I moved here 6 or 7 years later, and bought a car. Couldn't take it off the lot until I got a NC drivers licence. So I went to apply for one, and they say oh, your Canadian licence is suspended in the US. Turns out that not paying the ticket gets your licence suspended. If I had ever got pulled over, I would have been arrested for driving with a suspended licence.
Took me 3 weeks to pay the now $200 ticket and get all the paper work together before I could get my licence and my car.
And guess what, now that I have a US social security number, the first thing they slap on my shiny new credit report is a delinquent collection. I don't think there is a worse possible credit score than no credit history plus a delinquent account. I had hard time opening bank accounts, getting cell phones or utilities without massive deposits.
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Yup, that's pretty much what happens nowadays. Unless you plan on never going back to that state--and who's to say they won't start sharing information?--you can get nailed on a return trip.