Cannot Get SSN After Getting Marriage

[bigdog 376]

All, My fiancée arrived to USA and we got married and obtained marriage certificate. She is my wife now. We took the K1 visa and marriage certificate to Social Security Office to get social security number, however they told us we should have done this before getting married. What should we do now? Should we wait? did we mess up? I also wanted to add her into my medical and now they want SSN? Please help??? Thank you!

Return with a copy of their policy, we went two week after entry that gives us time to get the information into the system. I took the printed information on who what why when where for SSS. They only looked at her K-1 visa and passport, Good Luck on your return visit.

[jeff75 0]

Hi,

Yes this was the card center in Minneapolis,MN (new cards, cards renewal).

Regards,

Was this the Card Center?

Was this also the Card Center?

[Jilli & Ales 9]

I'm sorry...I just want to be prepared? We have a lot riding on things going fairly smoothly. Obviously they never will be so I have to do my best. Wouldn't you do the same?

[I'm Gone 60]

I'm sorry...I just want to be prepared? We have a lot riding on things going fairly smoothly. Obviously they never will be so I have to do my best. Wouldn't you do the same?

Probably won't happen, but SSA policy could change by December. Plus having the e-mail from SSA with the right info might not do you a lot of good if the SSA office person that waits on you doesn't know what they are doing, for example, the people here that applied at the Card Center and got turned away.

[nane1104 146]

SSA is a pain in the butt but this is what we did:

The day after I arrived on my K-1, we went to the SSA to apply for my SSN. They put me in the system with my maiden name based on my passport/visa but said it would take a few days to have my info from immigration verified in order to process my application. No big deal.

We got married the next day and I went back that same day to show them our marriage certificate and asked to have my name changed on the application.

Maybe they were just nice where I applied but they said since it hasn't been processsed yet anyway, it wasn't a problem.

Well, 4 weeks later I still didn't have my SSN so I went back in to inquire. Nobody knew anything about the application so I asked to speak to a supervisor. She gave us the runaround (I guess to gain some time) and told us we needed to show our marriage certificate again. Went home, went back...in the meantime, she had called USCIS to verify my info and that same day I got a printout with my SSN, card arrived three days later.

[Jilli & Ales 9]

Probably won't happen, but SSA policy could change by December. Plus having the e-mail from SSA with the right info might not do you a lot of good if the SSA office person that waits on you doesn't know what they are doing, for example, the people here that applied at the Card Center and got turned away.

Thank you in any case.

[jeff75 0]

If all else fails e-mail SSA:

http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/ask

Include your phone number and the office (city and state and street address if city has more than one office) where you tried to apply.

I did that yesterday. And it worked very well !

After I emailed SSA, they called me back, saying that K1 visa who got married does not affect the right to be assigned a SSN.

They email me back with all their policy to be presented at the local office, specifying in the email "Marriage does not affect an individual with K1 status's eligibility to be assigned an SSN, or issue a card".

They also called Minneapolis MN office manager directly, who called me back later to invite me at the local office in order to register my application.

Problem solved in one day ! I will received my SScard in 2 weeks.

Thanks,

Jeff75