With New Green Card, New SS#?

[Sian & Chris 0]

I've tried looking up the answer to this and I've only gotten a partial answer or something that conflicts with other things I've heard. My wife just got notice that her green card is in the mail (WOO!) and we want to go to the SSA to get the whole "working purposes" deal removed from her SS card. The question is: Will she get a new number? I'm aware she'll get a new card and that she'll have fewer restrictions, but will the number change?

The reason I ask is, before thinking things through thoroughly, I tried to add her to a loan I had and the person in the loan office said her SS# wasn't even one he could find on his little SS# research website thingy. He then said that he had never seen the first few numbers on her card before. It's obviously been fine in every other situation we've used it (she has a job, etc), but if people who are dealing with loans, etc can't use it, then it's kind of useless.

So, again, will she be getting a new number or do we have to somehow magically explain our situation everytime we want to talk to someone about money?

Thanks!

[a+j 77]

No change. Once you get a SS#, it's for life.

[makebalayesarr 9]

Her ss# is absolutely good and will never be changed. She will have the restrictions removed once she received her green card. The loan Guy is just a joke

[Morningmist 76]

Sounds like that guy was just being difficult. I've had people say stupid ####### like that to me all the time. " I've never heard of gmail. Is that a real thing?" when I was trying to lease a condo. Seriously? Not my problem if you live under a rock , dude. They see a foreigner and they just want to get smart with you. SSN is suppose to be for life, last I was told. I've changed status 3 times in the US and my SSN was the only constant in all that paperwork.

[Sian & Chris 0]

Interesting. He had some sort of website that helped him quickly research the validity of SS#'s. This was at the Nissan dealership, not some back-alley place, and it would have benefitted them to have my wife on the loan, so I don't know what the deal was. Maybe it just didn't recognize it because of the restrictions...? I dunno, got the loan, anyway, sooooo.

[Morningmist 76]

Then again, certain banks don't loan money to you if you don't have a valid GC or US citizenship. USAA is one of them. BoA doesn't let you open a brokerage account. His little SSN thingy might have not returned anything because of how their software is written.

[Morningmist 76]

Yeah USAA wouldn't let me get a auto loan unless I had a GC in hand. I don't. Not yet anyway.

[Gosia & Tito 199]

I've tried looking up the answer to this and I've only gotten a partial answer or something that conflicts with other things I've heard. My wife just got notice that her green card is in the mail (WOO!) and we want to go to the SSA to get the whole "working purposes" deal removed from her SS card. The question is: Will she get a new number? I'm aware she'll get a new card and that she'll have fewer restrictions, but will the number change?

The reason I ask is, before thinking things through thoroughly, I tried to add her to a loan I had and the person in the loan office said her SS# wasn't even one he could find on his little SS# research website thingy. He then said that he had never seen the first few numbers on her card before. It's obviously been fine in every other situation we've used it (she has a job, etc), but if people who are dealing with loans, etc can't use it, then it's kind of useless.

So, again, will she be getting a new number or do we have to somehow magically explain our situation everytime we want to talk to someone about money?

Thanks!

No new number. Reason is not in the system your loan office uses is because it takes time for SSA to distribute updates and for those to propagate across authorized databases, that time is measured in weeks as in more than 1 month in many cases. And then it depends on when this loan office would update their data, it might be only on the quarter or even mayb couple of times a year, why you would ask? Because there is a lot of non-educated people out there that has the following line of thinking: only new bornes get SSN, a new born is not going to ask for a loan for a while and people don't give birth more than once a year, thus to keep family info up to date on the parents getting a loan, twice year updates is plenty. They absolutely don't think that new immigrants would get SSN all the time. You can see this line of thinking quite a lot actually, though sometimes is subtle. For example, my credit union uses this challenge questions when you want to reset your password. They have setup a list of questions, and I'd say that a foreigner and/or immigrant would be able to maybe answer 1 out of the 15, while you need at least 3 to set this up. For example, one question is what state where you born, and then a list of the 50. How would a foreigner answer this?

Other questions ask for your favorite NFL, MBL, NBA team. How many recent immigrants would even know what those leagues are?

Reason people "have not seen" the first few numbers is because numbers used to be assigned by geographic area so it was possible to tell in what state/area someone got a SSN, but that is changed more or less recently and now numbers have nothing to do with where you got the number and would appear as "new" to some.

As for the loan, ask for a supervisor or office manager to clear the situation. After all, all they need to see is a SSN and you are getting them one.

[Bailo 1]

The number stays the same unless you are in some witness protection programe.