Social Security Application Process

[slim 1,525]

None of this really matters anyway because the people at your local SSA office won't know and will send you to the USCIS office around the corner. Then, they won't know either and as TG said, after about the 10th trip in there, you'll finally get somewhere.

Have fun!

[Turboguy 6]

My impression of the wonderful staff at the SS office was that if they have goverment employees that just are incapable of doing anything they assign them to the SS office.

I think VWRW and I are pretty typical. The SS # was far more important to us than the EAD. You can't get a drivers liscense here without a SS#. You can't open a bank account here without a SS#. For AOS one of the things they like to see is comingled finances and if you mess up on getting the SS# during the K-1 phase you are stuck until you get the EAD. For us, my wife likely won't work for years. She could not start school without the SS number but she will probably be in school for the next 4 years or so and won't be working until she finishes school. The plus is she will probably make more money than I do once she gets into the work force.

I think in real life you can work with a SS # but without EAD. I am just thinking back to some of my memories of my first fiancee. Microsoft is not going to hire you but some of the mom and pop operations just really don't know much about requirements and if you can give them a SS# so they can pay you and put it on their quarterly 941 they will hire you. If she is a fiance on a K-1 and has her SS# she is legal to work. I don't think it is the route anyone should be following though.

Actually I think you can apply for EAD without applying for AOS but you would have to pay the $ 360.00 fee which is free if you apply at the same time you apply for AOS.