How to update SSN after becoming US citizen??

[monoplast 0]

Hi,

I just received my certificate of naturalization and officially became a US citizen. In one section it says to update SSN. Can I do that online or do I have to do it personally?

Thanks for any help.

[Anvi 5]

Hi,

I just received my certificate of naturalization and officially became a US citizen. In one section it says to update SSN. Can I do that online or do I have to do it personally?

Thanks for any help.

Only in Person. You need to take your certificate with you.

[TBoneTX 44,658]

It might be even better to apply for your U.S. passport, receive it, and take it to the Social Security office. Other posters here have said that their use of the naturalization certificate took some verification, whereas producing the passport resulted in immediate updating.

[BigDaddy28 228]

Hi,

I just received my certificate of naturalization and officially became a US citizen. In one section it says to update SSN. Can I do that online or do I have to do it personally?

Thanks for any help.

I heard some people having trouble updating the SSN right away. If you are applying for a passport do that and than update your SSN. If not wait 10 days for USCIS to update their system. Good luck.

[NickD 202]

You can do it via mail, but have to send in your original certificate, sure wouldn't want to risk that, may never see it again. In going in, in person with that form already filled out and signed by the person on it, I could do that for my gang with the original certificate, take a copy of it, the form and that was it.

If you run across a hard head that insists you have to be in that database first, request to speak to the supervisor. They have a copy of your original certificate and your form, that is all they need. What these dingbats don't seem to realize, is you are going there to give them money, a lots of money that according to some congressman, you may never see again. 14.8% of your gross wages to be exact between you and your employer. If that isn't bad enough, you also have to pay income taxes on those FICA taxes.

When you go in there, should treat you like a pot of gold they are going to get a big hunk of, and their wages come out of that money. This makes us the boss, not the other way around.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

I updated my SSN an hour after the citizenship ceremony without issue. I had the SSN form filled out already (all I was doing was changing my citizenship status). They took a photocopy of my brand new shiny Naturalization certificate and told me it would be a couple weeks until they could match this update with their systems (with updates from USCIS I suppose.

Easy peasey - I was already off for the afternoon anyway so I figured I'd take care of it.

[christeen 966]

You have to go, wait in their stupid line and do it... I would wait 10 days so you are updated in their system...

[monoplast 0]

Thank you for all your responses. I will get my passport first.

[Barca 10]

Hi,

I just received my certificate of naturalization and officially became a US citizen. In one section it says to update SSN. Can I do that online or do I have to do it personally?

Thanks for any help.

I went a week or so after the oath. I took the original certificate with me, the guy looked in the computer and saw that my status was updated and he didn't even need to make a copy of the certificate. He told me I would receive my new card in the mail in 2 weeks or so. I received it maybe 10 days later. good luck.

[augusta23 8]

i became a citizen in 2009 and never did this...can i do it now?

[Darth Vader Ku 16]

You can do it via mail, but have to send in your original certificate, sure wouldn't want to risk that, may never see it again. In going in, in person with that form already filled out and signed by the person on it, I could do that for my gang with the original certificate, take a copy of it, the form and that was it.

If you run across a hard head that insists you have to be in that database first, request to speak to the supervisor. They have a copy of your original certificate and your form, that is all they need. What these dingbats don't seem to realize, is you are going there to give them money, a lots of money that according to some congressman, you may never see again. 14.8% of your gross wages to be exact between you and your employer. If that isn't bad enough, you also have to pay income taxes on those FICA taxes.

When you go in there, should treat you like a pot of gold they are going to get a big hunk of, and their wages come out of that money. This makes us the boss, not the other way around.

NickD,

...but if these newly-approved US citizens were already Legal Permanent Residents (which they would have needed to be for at least three years to qualify for naturalisation in any case), then they were already paying these taxes you mentioned above, and were doing so for years. Converting your immigration status from a Legal Permanent Resident to a Naturalised Citizen does not adjust your income tax obligations. You don't know what you're talking about.

[Tom_Jim 40]

i became a citizen in 2009 and never did this...can i do it now

Yes, you may.