SSN

[Lil Miss Sunshine 14]

About 5-6 weeks ago, my husband and i went to the local SSA office to lift the restrictions off my SSN card. unfortunately, in their records, it wasn't showing that i was a permanent resident despite the fact that i presented my GC. we were advised to wait for a couple of weeks so we did until we scheduled an infopass as advised by USCIS. at the USCIS, we were just given a piece of paper that states where SSA should be verifying my status. the consul also said that in their records, i am a permanent resident.

we went back to the SSA and were told that they can't issue me a new card unless my name as a permanent resident shows up in their system. this is so frustrating. God knows how long it would take before my name shows up there.

has anyone ever went through the same experience?

[I'm Gone 60]

About 5-6 weeks ago, my husband and i went to the local SSA office to lift the restrictions off my SSN card. unfortunately, in their records, it wasn't showing that i was a permanent resident despite the fact that i presented my GC. we were advised to wait for a couple of weeks so we did until we scheduled an infopass as advised by USCIS. at the USCIS, we were just given a piece of paper that states where SSA should be verifying my status. the consul also said that in their records, i am a permanent resident.

we went back to the SSA and were told that they can't issue me a new card unless my name as a permanent resident shows up in their system. this is so frustrating. God knows how long it would take before my name shows up there.

has anyone ever went through the same experience?

It's not your name as much as you having permanent resident status with your name that needs to be verified.

[Dakine 26]

About 5-6 weeks ago, my husband and i went to the local SSA office to lift the restrictions off my SSN card. unfortunately, in their records, it wasn't showing that i was a permanent resident despite the fact that i presented my GC. we were advised to wait for a couple of weeks so we did until we scheduled an infopass as advised by USCIS. at the USCIS, we were just given a piece of paper that states where SSA should be verifying my status. the consul also said that in their records, i am a permanent resident.

we went back to the SSA and were told that they can't issue me a new card unless my name as a permanent resident shows up in their system. this is so frustrating. God knows how long it would take before my name shows up there.

has anyone ever went through the same experience?

Yep! We finally had to get USCIS to call SSA and vice versas . Wasn't easy as they don't normally communicate with each other.

[Lil Miss Sunshine 14]

About 5-6 weeks ago, my husband and i went to the local SSA office to lift the restrictions off my SSN card. unfortunately, in their records, it wasn't showing that i was a permanent resident despite the fact that i presented my GC. we were advised to wait for a couple of weeks so we did until we scheduled an infopass as advised by USCIS. at the USCIS, we were just given a piece of paper that states where SSA should be verifying my status. the consul also said that in their records, i am a permanent resident.

we went back to the SSA and were told that they can't issue me a new card unless my name as a permanent resident shows up in their system. this is so frustrating. God knows how long it would take before my name shows up there.

has anyone ever went through the same experience?

It's not your name as much as you having permanent resident status with your name that needs to be verified.

Thats what i said. My name on the list of Permanent Residents.

[payxibka 10,045]

It would be nice if they would accept your verbal assurance you are on the list.... obviously you have to wait until the verification can be made systemically....

[Lil Miss Sunshine 14]

It would be nice if they would accept your verbal assurance you are on the list.... obviously you have to wait until the verification can be made systemically....

i have no choice but to do that..

[NickD 202]

Here is my history with SS, I was born in the USA, applied for a job when I was 16 and told I needed a SS card, what's that? Went to the local office with my birth certificate and got the card, still have it. Was told I should get SS cards for my babies, did that just by bringing in their birth certificate. Stuff changed, met this wonderful woman from a foreign country with a 13 year old daughter. At the advice of my attorney filed a I-765 for each of them plus a bunch of other forms, and got an EAD for each of them, took those, their passports, and birth certificates translated into English with the originals and received a restricted work only SS card for each of them.

Then much later on, we received their conditional green cards, took those in, again with the passports and birth certificates and two weeks later received unconditional SS cards for both of them, just like mine. Oh, and each time, download the forms from the SSA site fill them in and have my wife or daughter sign them.

We can easily just as mail these in and the reason why I go and not my wife or daughter, they have their school and work here in town and the county seat is some 37 miles away that I go to frequently as part of my job and I refuse to send these important documents through the mails. I make copies in my home office, bring those and the originals for them to verify and take the originals home with me.

Now here is the point of all this, me, your name, nor my babies, immigrant wife, or step daughter are not in the SS system until you go there and put them in the system. And to put them into the system, you need documentation, easy with my babies, just their birth certificate, more complication with my immigrant wife and daughter, their passports for photo ID, and either the EAD or the permanent resident card from the USCIS.

I will be going back to the SS office in the next month or two with my wife's new US citizen certificate, at 400 bucks for a replacement, be darn if I will send that through the mails as well, but will make a nice copy of it for their records they again can compare with the originals.

It was recently proposed that the SS work with the DHS to track down illegals, Bush said no to that as that is not the function of SS and the USCIS does not send records to SS. But you get what SS wants from the the USCIS and bring it to their office, and that's the way you get into their system. Somebody is BSing you and that happens all the time with agencies.

[Lil Miss Sunshine 14]

Here is my history with SS, I was born in the USA, applied for a job when I was 16 and told I needed a SS card, what's that? Went to the local office with my birth certificate and got the card, still have it. Was told I should get SS cards for my babies, did that just by bringing in their birth certificate. Stuff changed, met this wonderful woman from a foreign country with a 13 year old daughter. At the advice of my attorney filed a I-765 for each of them plus a bunch of other forms, and got an EAD for each of them, took those, their passports, and birth certificates translated into English with the originals and received a restricted work only SS card for each of them.

Then much later on, we received their conditional green cards, took those in, again with the passports and birth certificates and two weeks later received unconditional SS cards for both of them, just like mine. Oh, and each time, download the forms from the SSA site fill them in and have my wife or daughter sign them.

We can easily just as mail these in and the reason why I go and not my wife or daughter, they have their school and work here in town and the county seat is some 37 miles away that I go to frequently as part of my job and I refuse to send these important documents through the mails. I make copies in my home office, bring those and the originals for them to verify and take the originals home with me.

Now here is the point of all this, me, your name, nor my babies, immigrant wife, or step daughter are not in the SS system until you go there and put them in the system. And to put them into the system, you need documentation, easy with my babies, just their birth certificate, more complication with my immigrant wife and daughter, their passports for photo ID, and either the EAD or the permanent resident card from the USCIS.

I will be going back to the SS office in the next month or two with my wife's new US citizen certificate, at 400 bucks for a replacement, be darn if I will send that through the mails as well, but will make a nice copy of it for their records they again can compare with the originals.

It was recently proposed that the SS work with the DHS to track down illegals, Bush said no to that as that is not the function of SS and the USCIS does not send records to SS. But you get what SS wants from the the USCIS and bring it to their office, and that's the way you get into their system. Somebody is BSing you and that happens all the time with agencies.

nickd, we've been to the SSA office twice. i presented my GC which they've photocopied. it's just my damn luck that i'm not on their system. so i have no choice right now but to wait for divine intervention

[NickD 202]

I feel for my wife and daughter as immigrants into this country, everything is strange to them with a fear of our legal system, and pardon my language but you do run into ####### either in the USCIS or the SS office. I occasionally run into that and request to speak to a supervisor with occasional threats to contact my senator that I know personally, that changes the entire tune.

An SS card gives our government the authority to take close to 15% of your wages for their fund, if self employed, you pay all of that before any taxes, if employed, your employer by law pays half of that. So they are more than willing to issue a valid SS card if you can prove that you are here legally.

Another option is that there are plenty of attorneys in this country that make a good living by dealing with the SS, but this deals more with getting benefits from them and I know of people that had to hire an attorney for that reason, that really changes the tune at the SS office. Perhaps you can find one in your area just to get your SS card. They know more about SS law than the workers there.

I swear that gal working at our local SS office is suffering from PMS or something, already had an incident with her, but she now knows to be nice the next time I go in.

[I'm Gone 60]

It was recently proposed that the SS work with the DHS to track down illegals, Bush said no to that as that is not the function of SS and the USCIS does not send records to SS.

That's BS. Bush just sign executive order that all businesses having government contracts must use E-Verify.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20080609-2.html

Congress is trying to making it that all employers must use E-Verify, but special interest groups are kicking and screaming to keep it from passing.

"the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, unions and trade groups complain the system is a mess, and they've joined forces to stop legislation in Congress to make its use mandatory nationwide."

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion.../everifyed.html

Barbara Kennelly, a former Democratic representative from Connecticut and president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, warned at the hearing that forcing Social Security to take on the enormous burden of immigration enforcement would be a harmful diversion from its core mission and could strain the bureaucracy to the breaking point.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/...amp;oref=slogin

John Trasvina, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said that the E-Verify system relies on faulty Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security databases and would therefore create an official "no-work" list requiring millions of U.S. citizens and legal workers to bear the burden of proving their legal status.

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/busine...c=7&cxcat=6

[NickD 202]

we went back to the SSA and were told that they can't issue me a new card unless my name as a permanent resident shows up in their system.

All I did was from the form I downloaded from:

http://www.ssa.gov/online/ss-5.pdf

was to resubmit that form with a high res scan and color print out of my wife's and daughters new green cards.

As I already had the original forms saved on my computer with the EAD cards, those forms did not have an SS number on them as one hasn't been assigned yet, added that, changed the dates, the rest was identical, so saved that as a new file name, printed that out and had my wife and daughter sign those. Ten days later we received new cards with the restrictions removed. Course I brought in the original green cards, matter of fact have a large brief case loaded with of their immigration papers and original documents, so bring that in as well in case they want to see anything else.

Did you file a new SS-5?

I will be doing that again soon, see that the SS-5 form has not changed, so will open the 2nd form, change the dates, and check the US citizen box instead of the legal alien allowed to work box, nothing else has changed. And will bring in my large brief case, just in case.

That's BS. Bush just sign executive order that all businesses having government contracts must use E-Verify.

Does that also include businesses having (USA) government contracts that are located in France and China?

And President Bush did say exactly what I stated on the news in the heat of the none-documented aliens here, I like to listen to President Bush to improve my English language skills.

[I'm Gone 60]

That's BS. Bush just sign executive order that all businesses having government contracts must use E-Verify.

Does that also include businesses having (USA) government contracts that are located in France and China?

Don't think workers in foreign countries are covered by U.S. immigration laws.