Received green card but no social security

[ir1cr12021 6]

Hi there,

 

I arrived into the US on an IR1 on 05-Mar-21.

 

I updated my address at the point of entry and have already received my green card.

 

I have not, however, received my social security. Should I be concerned? I was expecting the green card to arrive much later than the green card.

 

(I appreciate it can take 3 weeks for the social security card to arrive, but the sequencing has confused me!)

 

(To be clear: I ticked the box in my application that I would like to receive a social security number.)

 

Many thanks!

Edited March 24, 2021 by chriskrichardson

[JeanneAdil 6,504]

there is no set rule of which comes first 

when it comes,  it comes 

if you changed the address of where you originally were suppose to go,  i would check with local SS office 

[neca 166]

39 minutes ago, chriskrichardson said:

I was expecting the green card to arrive much later than the green card.

😄

 

It's truly an esoteric process, so you'll just have to be patient, for now. I have been seeing that covid has affected the SS office too, where people haven't been getting their SS cards in a timely manner. I'd encourage you to look up those other cases, but iirc if you don't see anything in six weeks then you can contact the SS office (of course, you can contact them sooner, if you don't mind being told to wait).

 

Good luck, and congrats on getting to the US!

[ir1cr12021 6]

45 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

there is no set rule of which comes first 

when it comes,  it comes 

if you changed the address of where you originally were suppose to go,  i would check with local SS office 

So even if the green card arrived to my new address, there's a chance the social security could go to the old address? Yikes.

17 minutes ago, neca said:

😄

 

It's truly an esoteric process, so you'll just have to be patient, for now. I have been seeing that covid has affected the SS office too, where people haven't been getting their SS cards in a timely manner. I'd encourage you to look up those other cases, but iirc if you don't see anything in six weeks then you can contact the SS office (of course, you can contact them sooner, if you don't mind being told to wait).

 

Good luck, and congrats on getting to the US!

Silly typo! Thank you very much, looking forward to getting all of this set up.

[JeanneAdil 6,504]

you don't really think the 2 government branches actually talk to each other,  do you?

the SS card may or may not come to your new address but i would check

[Kemfaith 16]

I’m in similar situation arrived 12/28/20 received green card but no social upon calling social security the first time they said to wait 2 weeks after 2 weeks I called they told me 4 and after that I was told 6-8 weeks it’s just a eating game at this point:/

[TBoneTX 45,288]

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