Permission to work, but the eligibility check says ineligible

[luis_bici_ 4]

We are less than two weeks from our initial interview to change my wife's status! Thank you, VJers!! Meanwhile, though, my wife got her authorization to work recently, so we went job hunting. As we were doing this, we realized she needed a SSN, so we got that no problem. The problem is that after an interview, the manager said they needed to do the background/eligibility check. When she called the next day, he told us that the system said she was ineligible. I thought this may have been because when we first filled out her application, I had put her Alien number where it asked for the SSN. I did this because the online application did not allow this to be blank. We had gotten the SSN before the interview and I imagine before the check was done and I had changed this on her application. This is the only reason that comes to mind why she might be ineligible. I also explained this to the manager and he asked us to submit a completely new application. We did this and today the results again say that she is ineligible. He said that this has happened before with someone who had a new SSN because the person hadn't "used" his SSN yet. Please help us resolve this. Thanks!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

We are less than two weeks from our initial interview to change my wife's status! Thank you, VJers!! Meanwhile, though, my wife got her authorization to work recently, so we went job hunting. As we were doing this, we realized she needed a SSN, so we got that no problem. The problem is that after an interview, the manager said they needed to do the background/eligibility check. When she called the next day, he told us that the system said she was ineligible. I thought this may have been because when we first filled out her application, I had put her Alien number where it asked for the SSN. I did this because the online application did not allow this to be blank. We had gotten the SSN before the interview and I imagine before the check was done and I had changed this on her application. This is the only reason that comes to mind why she might be ineligible. I also explained this to the manager and he asked us to submit a completely new application. We did this and today the results again say that she is ineligible. He said that this has happened before with someone who had a new SSN because the person hadn't "used" his SSN yet. Please help us resolve this. Thanks!

I've heard of this many times. Many businesses contract with another business to do the security check for them. New batches of social security numbers take awhile to populate the system so they are accessible by the firm doing security. Some chain businesses are bound by corporate structure to only take employees that their contracted security checking firm can verify. It might take 6 months to get the new SSN to show up in such systems. Other businesses are more flexible.

Edited April 7, 2013 by Nich-Nick