Background checks for foreign students

[Bonnie Low]

Well this is a new one for me so I'm wondering what others have done. I have a prospective midterm guest who is an international bible college student wanting to rent our MTR from July - December. She is in the final year of her ministry program but also is a full time remote worker for an accounting firm in her home country of Colombia. I attempted to do a background check but as she doesn't have a US Social Security number, I was unable to. She did provide me with copies of her bank statements, pay stubs and a letter from her HR department confirming her employment as well as prior landlord references here in the US. I don't have her credit score, eviction history (just WOM form her landlords - all good things to say about her), or criminal history that you would normally get from a background check. Is there a way to run a standard background check on someone without a SS#? Or have you satisfied this criteria using some other method? I'm inclined to improve her. I've spoken to her and her references and everything is checking out, but I'm just trying to do my due diligence and thought I'd ask for suggestions. Thanks!

[Zachary Deal]

I don't think there is any easy way to pull a foreign background check (although my guess is it is country specific). It seems like you have done as much due diligence as you can so I think if you're comfortable with it I would go with you gut