Assistance for Victims of Trafficking

The information on this webpage applies to “victims of trafficking.” “Victims of trafficking” are those individuals who were subject to:

1. “Severe forms of trafficking in persons.” This is defined as sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion in which the person induced to perform such act is less than 18 years old or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor/services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of involuntary servitude, slavery, peonage, or debt bondage;

or

2. “Sex trafficking.” This is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining patronizing or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. 

How to Request a Block of Information in Your Consumer Report

You must submit the following information/documentation to The Orsus Group in order to request a block of information in a consumer report prepared about you: (1) appropriate proof of identity; (2) victim determination documentation; (3) identified adverse items of information; and (4) your preferred contact method. Each of these is discussed in more detail below.

Appropriate Proof of Identity. 

Victims of trafficking must submit appropriate proof of their identity to The Orsus Group. This typically includes providing The Orsus Group with a copy of your:

1. Driver’s license;
2. State identification card;
3. Passport;
4. Social Security Card;
5. Utility or service bills; or 
6. Other government-issued identification card. 

If you are a victim of trafficking and do not have any of the forms of identification listed above, please contact The Orsus Group at 877-575-1476, so that your identity can be confirmed by another method. 

Victim Determination Documentation.

Victims of trafficking are required to provide victim determination documentation to The Orsus Group. To do so, you may provide any of the following:

Option #1: Documentation that establishes that one of the following entities has formally determined that you are a victim of trafficking:  

1. A Federal, State, or Tribal governmental entity.
2. A non-governmental organization or member of a human trafficking task force, including victim service providers affiliated with these entities and authorized by a Federal, State, or Tribal government entity.

Option #2: Documentation that you are a victim of trafficking, which has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction or a determination consisting of documents filed in a court of competent jurisdiction where a central issue in the case is whether you are a victim of trafficking and the court has, at a minimum, affirmed your claim either by accepting certain pieces of evidence which are assumed to be true or finding that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact supporting a judgment in favor of you as a matter of law.

Option #3: A signed self-attestation attesting that you are a victim of trafficking, if the self-attestation or accompanying document is signed by: 

1. A Federal, State, or Tribal governmental entity; 
2. A non-governmental organization or member of a human trafficking task force; or 
3. A court of competent jurisdiction. 

Identified Adverse Items of Information

Victims of trafficking are required to identify any item(s) of adverse information (e.g., arrest records, criminal convictions, civil judgments, etc.) that they believe should not be included in a consumer report about them because the item(s) resulted from a severe form of trafficking in persons or sex trafficking of which they are a victim. Please make sure to provide this information to us.

Preferred Contact Method.

Victims of trafficking must provide The Orsus Group with their preferred contact method (e.g., mail or email).