Thinking ahead - social security number

[Limey 551]

I'm hoping to have NOA2 from TSC any day (having got NOA1 back in August).

Preparing for all the things I need to do once I'm in the States, I know I will need a social security number. I actually already have one, as I was an intern in the USA for a year or so during the 90s on a J1 visa and I had a social security number then. I'm assuming

1) my social security number will still be in the system

2) i should use this existing social security number rather than apply for a new one

3) they'll update the status of that number in the system (at the time I was on a J1 visa so I believe it was tagged in someway to state that my employment wasn't transferable etc)

Does anyone know how complex this is? I believe I can find the number itself if I go through all my paperwork from that time (its stored in a box which is currently packed away).

[VOL 425]

Your SSN will remain the same, Only way I know to get a new one is to be a victim of Identity Theft

SSN is federal not state.....

[baron555 934]

I'm hoping to have NOA2 from TSC any day (having got NOA1 back in August).

Preparing for all the things I need to do once I'm in the States, I know I will need a social security number. I actually already have one,

Then you already have one. It's yours for life.

as I was an intern in the USA for a year or so during the 90s on a J1 visa and I had a social security number then. I'm assuming

1) my social security number will still be in the system Yep forever

2) i should use this existing social security number rather than apply for a new one Yep

3) they'll update the status of that number in the system (at the time I was on a J1 visa so I believe it was tagged in someway to state that my employment wasn't transferable etc) Yep, when you present the EAD and then the GC

Does anyone know how complex this is?

Not

I believe I can find the number itself if I go through all my paperwork from that time (its stored in a box which is currently packed away).

[Pitaya 2,577]

~Moved from K1 Process to SSN forum~

~Inquiry about SSN~

[D.Ba 85]

I Had the exact same topic! Retrieve your SSN before you do anything else! It's still in the system, I got mine back after 20 years. I also was there on J-1 all those years ago. I Had to go to the ACS in Frankfurt, although they sent me to Berlin by mistake. Do not under any circumstances apply for a new SSN. Get the old one back. Write it down. Don't lose it again. I know what I'm talking about.

[D.Ba 85]

P.S. You should have gotten it back before handing in I-129f and entered it in the appropriate place