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So that's actually how it works? Interesting. Well this looks like the answer I needed so thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info. Now, social security number notwithstanding, what should we do in the mean time as far as her name goes and what name to put on the health insurance? Because the health insurance needs to be done asap.

She doesn't have a social security number because she is an immigrant.

So, I understand that I have 60 days to add my wife to my health insurance. We just got married 2 weeks ago, and I had a question about what exact name to put for her for the insurance, the one she has now on her passport or the one she wants to be called now that we're married. She wants to add my last name to her name, but so far there's nothing official for that. When filing the marriage certificate we were told not to put my last name on the form and to change it afterwards "just call this number and give them your social" is what she said to my wife, but she doesn't have a social. The clerk didn't elaborate on this, I suspect because she either didn't understand my wife's immigration status or wasn't sure what else to tell us.