New Social Security Card

[bradam2001 0]

Hello,

My wife became a citizen on 02/24/2010 and she went to SSA office in Rockville , MD 2 days later. She was sworn in at the social security office and she was told that it would take them 4 weeks to verify if she was really a citizen or not. She also submitted a copy of her naturalization certificate.

Yesterday, We received a letter stating that her new card was ordered . Today , she received her new card.

Just wanted to share.

Bradam

[antda 13]

Hello,

My wife became a citizen on 02/24/2010 and she went to SSA office in Rockville , MD 2 days later. She was sworn in at the social security office and she was told that it would take them 4 weeks to verify if she was really a citizen or not. She also submitted a copy of her naturalization certificate.

Yesterday, We received a letter stating that her new card was ordered . Today , she received her new card.

Just wanted to share.

Bradam

Bradam-Congrats on your wife being a new US Citizen for getting her new social security card.

Lol..Now she can have 2 cards, and not have to worry about losing one or the other.......

But yeah, good to inform social security about the citizenship update, for various other reasons too....

Thanks for sharing about your experience here on VJ. Good luck with the passport application too.

Ant

P.S. Umm...Does one really get sworn in at the social security office.. Odd.......

Edited March 13, 2010 by Ant+D+BabyA

[HeatDeath 430]

Hello,

My wife became a citizen on 02/24/2010 and she went to SSA office in Rockville , MD 2 days later. She was sworn in at the social security office and she was told that it would take them 4 weeks to verify if she was really a citizen or not. She also submitted a copy of her naturalization certificate.

Yesterday, We received a letter stating that her new card was ordered . Today , she received her new card.

Just wanted to share.

Bradam

Does the new card look different the the one she got when she passed AOS and told them she was a PR? I know one of the moderators says her "citizenship SSA card" is different, but she got her citizenship SSA card several years ago. I'm wondering if this is still the case?

[v333k 59]

Some social security cards contain a restrictive statement on it. That's all... there shouldn't be any difference between them.

However, your status will be different once you inform them of becoming a citizen...

Ant - didn't you post a nice thread on what you did after becoming a citizen??? you actually had a list of things you did...

I need to find that thread.....

Check out this PDF file that you can fillout and take with you to replace your SScard. There are enough instruction on it

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

[bradam2001 0]

It looks same to me . She never had restrictions on hers before while she had her greencard.

It is still strange to me why she had to swear in.

Thanks,

bradam

Some social security cards contain a restrictive statement on it. That's all... there shouldn't be any difference between them.

However, your status will be different once you inform them of becoming a citizen...

Ant - didn't you post a nice thread on what you did after becoming a citizen??? you actually had a list of things you did...

I need to find that thread.....

Check out this PDF file that you can fillout and take with you to replace your SScard. There are enough instruction on it

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

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Does the new card look different the the one she got when she passed AOS and told them she was a PR? I know one of the moderators says her "citizenship SSA card" is different, but she got her citizenship SSA card several years ago. I'm wondering if this is still the case?

Hehehe, that was me! I just got my citizenship in August of 2009 and got my new SSA card in September of 2009, not several years ago. My original SSN card was from 2004, though so perhaps the more recent SSA cards look like my new one. My new one has USA written in Gold on the bottom and the date it was issued printed right above it. My old one has an unbroken bar on the bottom, no USA and no date of issue. On the 'removable' part of the new card there is a band with squares of alternating colours with each third square having an X on either side of a large green rectangle that is not on the old one. There is also additional instruction information on the back of my new card.

Edited March 13, 2010 by Kathryn41

[antda 13]

Does the new card look different the the one she got when she passed AOS and told them she was a PR? I know one of the moderators says her "citizenship SSA card" is different, but she got her citizenship SSA card several years ago. I'm wondering if this is still the case?

Hehehe, that was me! I just got my citizenship in August of 2009 and got my new SSA card in September of 2009, not several years ago. My original SSN card was from 2004, though so perhaps the more recent SSA cards look like my new one. My new one has USA written in Gold on the bottom and the date it was issued printed right above it. My old one has an unbroken bar on the bottom, no USA and no date of issue. On the 'removable' part of the new card there is a band with squares of alternating colours with each third square having an X on either side of a large green rectangle that is not on the old one. There is also additional instruction information on the back of my new card.

HeatDeath and Kathryn41-Yes, likewise, my US Citizen SSN card (2009) looks somewhat different than my PR SSN card that I got after the AOS stage(2007). But I don't think that is related to immigration status though, and is more so that SSN cards have "evolved" over time and it looks different because of that. As well, the changes to my new SSN card is basically the same was what Kathryn described...the gold USA, other bands, and new instructions information (lol...contradictory..for that, as my old card says not to carry it around, whereby my new card doesn't mention that...weird..). As well, one of my cards contained my full middle name, while one of them only contained the middle initial only...My guess is that they ran out of room there...lol....Doesn't matter......Also, the new cards have an "issue date" on them, while the older ones don't......

Interestingly, my son's SSN card and my new SSN card look the same.....And they were both issued within a few months from each other in 2009....

My son beat me to the chase though...His first card was issued before my second one was...Now that's really bizzare, if you look at it from the front...lol......

Lol..The other major difference...The SSA office was quicker the second time around! (see my timeline info...)

By the way, when I became a US Citizen..I didn't specifically ask for a new card...

They just gave me one after I updated them about my new citizenship status....Oh well, now I have 2 SSN cards...so be it...

For the fun of it, you can read more about SSN cards here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number

However, your status will be different once you inform them of becoming a citizen...

Ant - didn't you post a nice thread on what you did after becoming a citizen??? you actually had a list of things you did...

I need to find that thread.....

V333k-Yes, your status will be different once you inform them of becoming a citizen. And this is important too, as other agencies and/or organizations will refer back to the SSA for this citizenship status verification. Which is why it is important that one updates the SSA when they become a US citizen.

And yes, I'll look for my former message and re-post that....you'll be able to find it then after I "bump" it up again.....

Ant

Edited March 13, 2010 by Ant+D+BabyA

[HeatDeath 430]

Hehehe, that was me! I just got my citizenship in August of 2009 and got my new SSA card in September of 2009, not several years ago. My original SSN card was from 2004, though so perhaps the more recent SSA cards look like my new one. My new one has USA written in Gold on the bottom and the date it was issued printed right above it. My old one has an unbroken bar on the bottom, no USA and no date of issue. On the 'removable' part of the new card there is a band with squares of alternating colours with each third square having an X on either side of a large green rectangle that is not on the old one. There is also additional instruction information on the back of my new card.

These particulars match both of my SS cards - My PR SSC issued in December 2009 after I received my two-year GC, and the K-1 holder SSC issued in July 2009 two weeks after I entered on my K-1. Both of my cards are printed on the SSA-3000 form, October 2007 revision, and are totally identical except for the red control number on the back, the specific placement of the security dots embedded in the paper, the font my name, SSN and address are printed in, and the presence of a "VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION" legend on the earlier card. Both have "USA" written in a reflective gold-ish ink at the bottom center, breaking the blue bar there, and both have the printing test pattern described by Kathryn on the top right hand corner of the removable part. The writing on the backs of both is identical as well.

It sounds like Kathryn's older card was issued prior to October 2007, and that that explains the differences between her PR unrestricted SSC and her post-citizenship unrestricted SSC.

I therefore conclude that unless the SSC-3000 blank SSC form is revised prior to my naturalization, that the SSC I will be sent after my naturalization and status update with the SSA will be identical, except for it's date of issue, to my current unrestricted PR SSC.

Edited March 13, 2010 by HeatDeath

[NickD 203]

Can't recall anyone wanting to see my SS card, new job, drivers' license, bank account, loan, fishing/hunting license, just gave the number I memorized a long time ago.

Wife nor daughter don't even know where our SS office is at, just brought in their signed applications, and either their, EAD, LPR cards, or wife's USC certificate. You don't even have to go in, can just mail the originals in and hope they or the post office don't lose them. Not that trusting, especially with government agency offices.

[jcrom 2]

Hello everybody, friends, this is my comment. Indeed, I've heard that in SSA, they put you make an oath that is going to be recorded, many people have told me that. Now, this is my recommendation and good advice to everybody that just received the new U.S. citizenship, you need to update all the records and get asap the U.S. passport. Once the person gets the diploma or certificate of naturalization, the person needs to update all absolutely all the records. Why? the response is very simple and suitable, anybody can committ a mistake or maybe a misdemeanor, crime or felony. Hence, when the person is U.S. citizen and do not update all the records, if any trouble with the law, it begins here the problems. There are many cases of people that are U.S. citizens and because they don't want to update all the records and unfortunately, they get in trouble, they have gone to jail. What happen after they leave jail? they go to an immigration prison, even the person states that is a U.S. citizen, they need to verify with the records, if you don't have too much records, you are in a big trouble; as long as there are more records, (I talk about official and important records as SSA, State driver's license, U.S. passport. There are people even that have been deported being U.S. citizen, here is the link so any person can read, it is very interesting, IMHO, http://stateswithoutnations.blogspot.com/2009/12/us-citizen-unlawfully-deported-ten.html. Now, let's talk about the case that the person has all the records updated, in case of any trouble, misdeamenor or crime, the person goes to jail and once, it passess the sentence and leave, the person automatically doesn't have any problem, because everything is on the important and federal records of the U.S. Even more, I was reading that a person needs to get U.S. passport as a safe way, too. In case of any loss of the record of the U.S. citizenship, there is no more evidence, only the U.S. passport and the certificate of birth are evidence of citizenship, besides the important records, of course; that appears even in the USCIS webpage, I think. Now, I think in my opinion, to update the bank records is interesting, too. Here comes the explanation, you are updating with the financial institutions records; this fact not everybody does know it, but indeed, there is more easiness for a person who is U.S. citizen to get any loan in a bank; logically, the person has to have a nice credit score,too. Indeed, the bank measures the level of risk of the person who is applying, besides the credit score that is the reason of the banks, they always ask if the person is U.S. citizen or not, even for openning an account or for any new line of credit or whatever important. Now, for people who is U.S. citizen, there is a 0 porcentage of being deported;Hence, the level of risk is less and the person can pay back any loan or mortage. When the person is U.S. green card holder, of course he/she needs the credit score, but the fact that is not a U.S. citizen rises the risk for the bank; any person can go back or fly away to his/her origin country and not pay absolutely nothing. With the U.S. citizen there is the truth that the person is not going to be deported and therefore, the person can pay back the loan without any problem. That is the importance of my opinion to update all the records, even the financial institutes records, too, Thanks and bye,

[NickD 203]

Our reasons for all that post oath ceremony stuff was not quite as pronounced as going to jail, SS is pulling money out of your paycheck faster than you can put it in, and if you do get any benefits, will get more as a USC. Really had a major fight with out DMV in renewing my wife's drivers' license with what in the hell is a one year extension notice. One of the first places I visited to let them know she is a USC now. My wife's first place was her employer, they were constantly on her because if she slipped a day over on her green card expiration, could have been fined $16,000.00 by the state. And of course, she was most interested in voting in local elections where they always have referendums to rob you even more.

I wasn't aware of banks nor credit cards, seems like since she got her USC, receives at least four new credit card offers a week, so maybe they are keeping track of that, but she was also getting a lot of those letters as a LPR, but not nearly as much.