Do Not Wait to Apply for your SSN even after checking the box on the DS-260

[Sudowpa2 7]

DS-260: Checked the box to have DHS send the information to SSA to produce a card after POE entry.

 

12/05/2023 Entered MIA

 

12/18/2023 Stopped by Myrtle Beach SSA to verify information. Was non-existent. 

 

12/21/2023 Called SSA Main Number, Hold for 1 hour and spoke with someone incompetent of the immigration services,

was put on hold 4 times, extra 35 min and still got nothing to work with

 

12/28/2023 Decided to go to local SSA Office without an appointment. Brought the SSA 5 application, Passport with Visa and Visa Stamp, foreign birth certificate and its translation.

Asked the women if she could double check the computers again to see if the information was transferred. No luck.

The women took the SS5 and applied for the SSA card manually. Took about 5 min and was told to wait two weeks for the verification and delivery of the card.

 

I would say give it a week and go to the SSA office with SS5 filled out, Passport with Visa stamp and their birth certificate (translated just incase). Check to see if your information is entered into the computer automatically from the DS-260. If it is not, request that they order a SSA number instead of waiting longer.

[lega4 0]

On 12/30/2023 at 4:32 AM, Sudowpa2 said:

Asked the women if she could double check the computers again to see if the information was transferred. No luck.

 

At this step you should have walked away and try another SSA office. The employees there are dumb. I'm 99% sure all the data was there, just this particular person had a bad day. My story - went to one office, they told me the same as to you: "Cannot see or check anything, file application to issue SSN, wait 2 weeks". I tried to go to another clerk in the same office, but he was sitting too close to the first one, so she noticed and screamed at me. Then I walked away, drove 15 minutes to another office and there was super friendly person who has checked in a few places in their system and in 5 minutes just wrote me my SSN on the sheet of paper. Received the physical mail a few days later btw, just needed to get the number itself. You can say something like "Need to start a job earlier" or so.

 

While there might be indeed the chance the data from DS260 wasn't sent/propagated, I see it as *very* unlikely event. So worth trying at least few different clerks and offices before you file an application.

[Chancy 6,243]

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[Sudowpa2 7]

It's very sad that things have come to you going behind backs because no one will do their job correctly. Makes everything very frustrating. 

 

I ran into the same issue with getting a military id card for my wife. 

 

When I went to thr first office in beafort, sc. They told me that she needed a ssn to recieve the id card. 

 

I got the ssn and returned again bit went to cherry point nc

 They told me that they could have given my wife her id card first time go except the lady didn't process the application correctly. She told the application that she was a foreigner in another country and not a green card holder. Something to that degree. So they had different rules processing the id card.