Social Security

[Captain Oates 911]

Got my passport on Saturday and Certificate back today

Certificate was priority mail but no signature required !

Passport had to be signed for on Saturday

Went down the SS office because if her indoors dies then they deduct 40% for aliens and nothing for citizens - a BIG advantage of doing naturalization

Went in and took a number and a seat. 6 people there plus a big guard with a Glock 40 sat watching us - it isn't like Ilkley !

They didnt want the form I had filled out from the net - no form required

They check if you know your mother's maiden and dad's first name. She took the info and said she would be asking me to swear it's true at the end - but she forgot - guess it's my big blue eyes again !

Anyway they need the certificate, not the passport - no drivers license or birth certificate =- nothing

just the ss card and certificate

All done - the new card comes in a week or so. She says remember to change tax return to citizen this time as turbo tax brings info forward as is.

[SM&LP 0]

Can you explain what does this mean?

Went down the SS office because if her indoors dies then they deduct 40% for aliens and nothing for citizens - a BIG advantage of doing naturalization

[CVB 18]

Can you explain what does this mean?

This means, in the case Alan would die. Same as his "better half".

[Captain Oates 911]

Can you explain what does this mean?

Well I am not a cockney from London - I am from the sophisticated North - but in London it is common for one's wife to be referred to as 'her indoors' as it was traditional for the wife to stay at home while the husband went out to work.

This might be the origin of referring to a woman as a bird as in 'only a bird in a gilded cage' or a woman who stays with a man because she can't afford to leave

Cockney rhyming slang is most difficult at first but easy once you get the swing of it..

eg. Daisies refer to daisy roots which rhymes with boots. So daisies are boots

So if I say I am off to buy a 'whistle' - the phrase you need is 'whistle and flute' - so what rhymes with the 2nd word ? = suit.

So I am off to buy a suit. Sounds complex but its easy once you grasp it

So off home to see my trouble = common phrase 'trouble and strife' so what rhymes with 'strife' ? = wife

So a trouble is a 'wife'

It was a code original but I mught be telling porkies

porky pies = lies

Edited December 14, 2010 by Alan the Red

[ELW 5]

Thanks for the Brit lesson, interesting!

They told us there would be no other Social Security card sent because we had already updated it after AOS (to have the "not employment authorized' removed).

Do you have any exceptions written on your card? If not, I would think you wouldn't get an updated card.

[Captain Oates 911]

Thanks for the Brit lesson, interesting!

They told us there would be no other Social Security card sent because we had already updated it after AOS (to have the "not employment authorized' removed).

Do you have any exceptions written on your card? If not, I would think you wouldn't get an updated card.

My card already had been updated so it didn't have the work restriction on it..and it didn't say alien or damned foreigner or anything. They didn't take the card so I will have 3

The last update was when we lived in Florida a couple of years ago

So they might have a policy of updating if the address has changed

don't know

It did say you can have 10 in a lifetime and I think 3 in a year - so I can have 7 more

This will be my last one with any luck coz I sure ain't getting married again. Told wife that and she said "what ?" I said - "coz I could never find another one like you"

That was the right answer apparently

It should be identical to the last card apart from the address

So I now have the certificate and passport and the SS card will come. The copy certs are in another place and I am building a burglar alarm to protect the original and the a passport in the fireproof cabinet !!!

No way do I want contact with the USCIS every again !

Edited December 14, 2010 by Alan the Red

[ELW 5]

No way do I want contact with the USCIS every again !

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

All done - the new card comes in a week or so. She says remember to change tax return to citizen this time as turbo tax brings info forward as is.

Hi, sorry to barge in on your thread. I am just thinking ahead for my husband's USC and also this will be my first time filling out a joint tax return. I just looked at the 1040 (because I didn't recall any box to check for citizen or non) and I don't see a designation for citizen v. LPR... just for SSNs. Am I missing something here? Is this a turbotax special thing? I do my own taxes. Thanks.

Edited December 14, 2010 by Harpa Timsah

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Hi, sorry to barge in on your thread. I am just thinking ahead for my husband's USC and also this will be my first time filling out a joint tax return. I just looked at the 1040 (because I didn't recall any box to check for citizen or non) and I don't see a designation for citizen v. LPR... just for SSNs. Am I missing something here? Is this a turbotax special thing? I do my own taxes. Thanks.

+1

Guess Alan's just testing us non-Brits. He's pulling our pants, legs, whatever . . .

[Captain Oates 911]

Hi, sorry to barge in on your thread. I am just thinking ahead for my husband's USC and also this will be my first time filling out a joint tax return. I just looked at the 1040 (because I didn't recall any box to check for citizen or non) and I don't see a designation for citizen v. LPR... just for SSNs. Am I missing something here? Is this a turbotax special thing? I do my own taxes. Thanks.

I think you are right and the ss lady (young) was wrong...

I asked her if the IRS would feed off her data and she went to see a supervisor and when she came back she told me the 1040 thing

yes she was wrong

she even forgot to make me swear at the end...

anyway if my lady wife was to expire and the IRS sends me a bill for 40% thinking I am an alien, I have plenty of proof now that I am a citizen so it wont be a problem

I asked her about Medicare in a few years and she said don't come in - do it online - however I will research it deeply at that time even if my wife is still working and providing insurance through her work

I cant get Medicare until she is 62 but if she early retired, I could buy in for about $6k pa as I will have been here 5 years at that time (thats the min for buy in)

That is the big snag in the USA - in Europe, a lot of people finish at 55. Here I would need 10 years insurance at say $14kpa ! = $140k - that's a lot of beer money.

So Americans must work until they are old and then they just die of exhaustion like William Holbrook. I retired at 54 and I have had another life - it's absolutely wonderful ! Motorbiking all over and boating and traveling the world and it would have been impossible to meet and get with my wife had I not been retired at 54

Even poor people retire early in Europe on not much money but it cant be done here.

[Captain Oates 911]

+1

Guess Alan's just testing us non-Brits. He's pulling our pants, legs, whatever . . .

Na I blame the obergrupenfuehrer of the SS in washington.

I couldnt remember a USC tick box on the 1040 but I thought it must have been brought forward data on turbo tax - but no it doesn't exist

It was all my eye and Betty Martin (another useful phrase)

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=234

Edited December 14, 2010 by Alan the Red