I don't understand the deep details of this, although I have submitted the forms for the three companies I own already but perhaps it arises from the weird natu

I don't understand the deep details of this, although I have submitted the forms for the three companies I own already but perhaps it arises from the weird nature of the US. It's a country, but not really. Specifically when you form a company it is registered with a state, not the country. The state knows (or could know) who you are. But, at least without looking in NSA databases, the federal government has no idea. Unless the state tells them. Which you might expect they would, but perhaps not? So this requirement is really there so the federal government gets a synced copy of the database each state already has, but done in the most inefficient way possible. The same weirdness shows up with identity documents (drivers' license) which again is issued by the state, but federal authorities want to get the data. Ending with the very odd situation that you can choose from two kinds of license in the state I live in: one works to get on a plane (federal administration) the other does not.