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"Business or place of employment addresses for past five years:" is what the form asks for. I've had people tell me to just list the home office information for each of the companies I've worked for. However, that just doesn't seem right to me. It seems like they probably want the actual addresses and whatnot of the physical places I've worked. Am I wrong? If so, it should be easy. If not, it gets a little complicated.

For the company I'm working at now, I've worked at the location at which I'm currently working, and before that I worked for them as a contractor at a local plant which is headquartered overseas. Before that, I was working at the same plant as a subcontractor for this company.

So for the past three years or so it looks something like this:

Employer @ Branch

Employer @ Plant

Subcontractor for Employer @ Plant

Before that I worked at a newspaper in Texas that was owned by a company that is headquartered in Kentucky (which, by doing a Google search, I just found out is moving to Alabama). Also, during that time, I worked a holiday job for a couple of months for a retail store that is headquartered elsewhere in Texas.

I know I tend to over-complicate things. What can I say? I'm a worrier.

Hi Forklift,

Welcome to the forum.

I do not know the answer to your question but we have several instructors here. I am sure someone will be along shortly...to tell you what you need to know.

Flint.

Hello forklift, before retirement I was a Union Electrician and worked for as many as five different contractors in a year. I listed each and every one and if there were any repeats I relisted them. This is the same thing I tell my students list each employer. The home office address (where your W2 is mailed from) will usually suffice.

Hi, bumping an old thread b/c when I searched, this one was fairly close in topic, but not exactly.

My situation is similar to the thread starter, but with a small twist or two.

My former employer is no longer in business. They went under a couple of years ago (fall of '08), which is why I am not there anymore. I worked there for many years though (more than 10). W2's originated from our actual office, not some home-office elsewhere.

Also, we had moved to that final address just a year or so before going out of business.

So, my question is: do I list just that last address, or do I list the last address and the one prior to it as well? I'm just not sure that we had moved to that last address long enough ago to have just that last address satisfy the '5 years of addresses' rule. Would it be a problem if I wound up listing 'too many addresses for the same company outside of 5 years'. Or, do I list the address of the company that bought up the remnants of my former employer?.. even though I never worked for them in any capacity?

I guess my concern is, does TXDPS want to contact these people and do a background check of some sort with a live person?.. If so, then my pointing them to the old address will be a bit of a dead-end. I don't want to get denied for something like this. Would TXDPS be 'upset' and fail my application in some way if I was to provide both former addresses even if one of them falls outside of the 'last 5 years' stipulation?

Thanks!,

-James

DPS does not contact your employer, or any former employers. They only want to know where you have physically lived and physically worked for the past 5 years. They will perform a local background check in each county where you have lived or worked for the past 5 years.