Florida marriage license requirements

[NavarreMan 10]

OK Archie! Here you go again. Kickin' my butt!

Florida Statutes

Notice in the First sentence of the Statute it says:

No county court judge or clerk of the circuit court in this state shall issue a license for the marriage of any person unless there shall be first presented and filed with him or her an affidavit in writing, signed by both parties to the marriage, providing the social security numbers or any other available identification numbers of each party, made and subscribed before some person authorized by law to administer an oath,

Damn... I should have gone here first!

Archie 02 Bill 00

Edited October 25, 2007 by NavarreMan

[archie07 0]

OK Archie! Here you go again. Kickin' my butt!

Florida Statutes

Notice in the First sentence of the Statute it says:

No county court judge or clerk of the circuit court in this state shall issue a license for the marriage of any person unless there shall be first presented and filed with him or her an affidavit in writing, signed by both parties to the marriage, providing the social security numbers or any other available identification numbers of each party, made and subscribed before some person authorized by law to administer an oath,

Damn... I should have gone here first!

Archie 02 Bill 00

I think they are giving the foriegner an option of either the SSN or the Alien number. They should be ok with the passport..

[Jim&Gemz 0]

Well this got me thinking after someone else pointed out that we could have problems with her EAD if her social security account has a different surname name on it than all the rest of her identity documents when we file for AOS. Now I'm wondering if it isn't just better to go through the drill to get the SSN in her maiden name then do the name change on it later.

[archie07 0]

You can't get a SSN in her married name till you get an EAD or AOS. I just went thru this nonsense. 4x to the social security office. It took 2 months and two weeks to get the darn card. We waited and waited and finally went back to the office and said hey, it's been over two months, where is the dam card? The guy looked it up and then called and told us DEpt of Homeland Security lost the application. WE had to use the EAD to apply then went back with the green card. They copied that and a week later it finally came. What a headache that was.

[john_and_marlene 162]

You can't get a SSN in her married name till you get an EAD or AOS.

We did.

K-3 cannot.

Edited October 25, 2007 by john_and_marlene

[Jim&Gemz 0]

You can't get a SSN in her married name till you get an EAD or AOS. I just went thru this nonsense. 4x to the social security office. It took 2 months and two weeks to get the darn card. We waited and waited and finally went back to the office and said hey, it's been over two months, where is the dam card? The guy looked it up and then called and told us DEpt of Homeland Security lost the application. WE had to use the EAD to apply then went back with the green card. They copied that and a week later it finally came. What a headache that was.

Oh it sounds like you should have printed this out and taken it with you:

https://s044a90.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx...33;opendocument

Not all the SSA offices and workers know that a K1 can apply for an SSN without EAD or AOS.

[flakeman1 0]

Yes, Jen. got her SS card 3 weeks after enterning America. in her last name .. it makes thinks easy for getting everything else...just need passport with 94 form in Gainesville , Florida.We got married in Las vegas . with only passport. will get ss changed later..into my last name..Mitch

[Ianne25 0]

We waited until after we were married and got Marlene's SSN with her married name. We did not have to wait to have anything from USCIS with her new name.

We used the passport with the K-1 visa, I-94, and the marriage certificate.

Yes I didn't think you'd need anything from USCIS but my original question was for any other Florida residents and if they needed the social security number in order to get a marriage license. I know some states don't require it. We'd really like to get married first then get the SSN so we don't have to go through the drill of a name change. Seems like such a waste of time and government resources.

No. They just asked for my passport with I-94 attachment in pinellas county courthouse(Fl). We also decided to get my SSN after we get married to avoid the hassle of name change later.

[archie07 0]

You can't get a SSN in her married name till you get an EAD or AOS. I just went thru this nonsense. 4x to the social security office. It took 2 months and two weeks to get the darn card. We waited and waited and finally went back to the office and said hey, it's been over two months, where is the dam card? The guy looked it up and then called and told us DEpt of Homeland Security lost the application. WE had to use the EAD to apply then went back with the green card. They copied that and a week later it finally came. What a headache that was.

Oh it sounds like you should have printed this out and taken it with you:

https://s044a90.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx...33;opendocument

Not all the SSA offices and workers know that a K1 can apply for an SSN without EAD or AOS.

We were K3 so I guess it apparently makes a difference. We couldn't get the card till we had the EAD.