Online identity verification questions ask nonsense questions. Every year when I try to get my free credit report from XXXX, XXXX, and TransUnion, I 'm never able to get all XXXX reports. Every year at least XXXX of the XXXX asks, " In what state was your social security number issued? '' and it offers me multiple choice answers, including my state of residency, the state of Virginia, another state, and " none of the above. '' The entire question is nonsensical, because all any person can possibly know is in which state they applied for the social security number ; they can not possibly know in which state the social security number was eventually issued. This is particularly true in the case of anyone who has immigrated to America and has become a U.S. citizen, whose social security number was applied for from the national government and could have been issued, literally, from almost any state. This question is impossible to answer correctly. By asking this unanswerable question, the credit reporting agency has made it impossible to obtain my XXXX credit report online.