SSN middle name misspelled

[AstroCanada 206]

My spouse got his SSN card promptly after his port of entry.   We just noticed that his middle name on it is missing one letter.  Trying to get a sense of how urgent it is to correct it and how to go about it.  Certainly hoping his green card won't be misspelled as well when he gets it.  

 

Any advice is welcome.

[B and H 18]

Is his visa also misspelled? If so, then I think yes, the green card will be wrong. I'm going through a similar issue with my wife right now. Her first and middle names are swapped on the visa, social security card and green card. If you're in the same situation then you will have to file I-90, mailing the incorrect green card with the form, to USCIS to correct it. If it is USCIS error, then you don't need to submit a fee with the I-90.

 

https://www.uscis.gov/i-90

 

Our local USCIS office let us take in the receipt number from filing the I-90 along with a passport photo and made my wife a temporary paper green card, so that we can go back to social security to get a corrected social security card. Social Security cannot simply correct the name on their system. It has to match the name as USCIS/DHS sees it, the SAVE system or whatever it's called.

 

Good luck.

[AstroCanada 206]

4 minutes ago, B and H said:

Is his visa also misspelled? If so, then I think yes, the green card will be wrong. I'm going through a similar issue with my wife right now. Her first and middle names are swapped on the visa, social security card and green card. If you're in the same situation then you will have to file I-90, mailing the incorrect green card with the form, to USCIS to correct it. If it is USCIS error, then you don't need to submit a fee with the I-90.

 

https://www.uscis.gov/i-90

 

Our local USCIS office let us take in the receipt number from filing the I-90 along with a passport photo and made my wife a temporary paper green card, so that we can go back to social security to get a corrected social security card. Social Security cannot simply correct the name on their system. It has to match the name as USCIS/DHS sees it, the SAVE system or whatever it's called.

 

Good luck.

Thanks for the info.  Actually the visa is spelled correctly, so that's why I find it weird that the social security card is spelled incorrectly.  I would have presumed that it would be transmitted electronically exactly the same as the visa to the SSA.  

 

In any case, we'll deal with the green card when we finally get it.