havent received my SSN - please help

[Maryamm 1]

hi all, i received my Green Card about two weeks ago but no SSN yet, now i wonder if we should re-apply for my SSN again? i remember we didnt check the box for SSN on my DS 230. should i wait? or go to SSN office center and ask? some ppl said i should wait for it, cuz they will mail it to me. some others said i should ask the SSn center :-/ ????

im sorry if i shouldnt post this kinda question here, i just dunno where to post it. thanks.

[reese1 68]

Did you ever go to the SS office to apply once you arrived in the US? They do not automatically send it to you as they do the GC.

[Douglas Custodio 7]

If you do check the option of issuing a SSN card on your DS-230 it comes automatically after your arrival in the US. But if you didn't you will have to go a Social Security Office to apply.

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

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[SCOTT Y LETI 0]

hi all, i received my Green Card about two weeks ago but no SSN yet, now i wonder if we should re-apply for my SSN again? i remember we didnt check the box for SSN on my DS 230. should i wait? or go to SSN office center and ask? some ppl said i should wait for it, cuz they will mail it to me. some others said i should ask the SSn center :-/ ????

im sorry if i shouldnt post this kinda question here, i just dunno where to post it. thanks.

I had to go to the social security office taking the greencard and passport, and after that i received the social security card.

[D&Q 8]

If you do check the option of issuing a SSN card on your DS-230 it comes automatically after your arrival in the US. But if you didn't you will have to go a Social Security Office to apply.

I did check that option and no social security card me and my husband had to go to the SS office and they told us that his application was not in file, so we needed to reapply for one.

[Darnell 8,478]

'ticking the box' on the DS-230 is sorta teasing to any Visa Applicant.

The SSN may get processed, it may not get processed - it just depends on the clerk doing the data entry work for the 'intake' on the casefile once yer wife handed it over to any POE staffer. I know, the tick box was ticked, there's a reasonable expectation that 'something will get done' based on that tick box...

But -

if it's been more than 2 weeks past the Port of Entry Date,

then there's a good chance that the SAVE database system has synched up,

and

any SSA clerk, at the local SSA office, can find her in the SAVE database.

Ya won't know till you try. Suggest you go in person, bring -

--yer wife

--her passport

--filled out application (can get those at the office, too)

and apply.

Whilst at the SSA office -

Ask any clerk to look her up in the SAVE database, in the VISA name and A#.

If they can't find her by EITHER ONE (name or A#) - go away, do not allow the application to be accepted,

come back in a week - SAVE system doesn't have her, yet. IF any SSA clerk mumbles 'need DHS/USCIS electronic verification' - do not allow the application to be accepted - come back in a week - SAVE system doesn't have her, yet.

Although SAVE database is useful for 'status checking' at the SSA office (by the SSA clerks) -

many of them are not trained on how to use it. If you get blank looks or mumbles, ask for a Supervisor,

and ask the Supervisor to 'look her up' in SAVE. If she is found via A# but the VISA name is stored wrong, in SAVE, you'll need to do something else, with the SAVE unit, to get it changed. It's a hassle, sure, but suggest you do change it to proper spelling of 'VISA NAME' prior to SSN issuance.

More SAVE INFO - http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextchannel=1721c2ec0c7c8110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextoid=1721c2ec0c7c8110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD

re: greencard - should arrive within 45 days. If not have it after that, don't sweat this, much, as she has an I-551 stamp in her passport that validates her VISA to be used as a temporary green card, for up to 1 year.

Hey - you have any address issues? Do you still live at the address listed in the DS-230 ? If not, oh boy - you'll need to contact a Tier 2 Human with USCIS - see http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1221837986181.shtm#5 and ask

--anything sent to that address yet?

--you receive 'nixed' mail yet?

--please resend all to the new address.

Don't muck about with a Tier 1 Sub-Human, a CSR - you , instead, want/need/require - a Tier 2 Human , an ISO.

also - checking in with the USCIS status portal can be useful - SOMETIMES it's updated properly and you'll see the 'card production ordered' status show up. Sometimes.