IF I ABANDON APPLICATION-CAN I GET SS back?

[educatedcat]

I am just sick of the BS I am getting from USCIS. My application has been pending for 27 months now, and I cannot even get a response from anyone. This while the borders are open to thousands of illegal immigrants because they pick the onions in the gruelling heat (I am in an area where there are 300,000 illegal immigrants).

Anyway, I am getting fed-up by the abuse and am thinking of starting immigration process for Canada. Life is too short to be disrespected this way. We are human beings, not animals in quarantine cells.

Anyway, I have put about ten years of social security and medicare (as a graduate T.A. and as employed) into the system. If I leave the country--how can I get my SS and Medicare?

 

[hanging in here]

Non US citizens/non-PRs) certainly do collect ss checks outside of the US, but some countries have regulations about this.

In the meantime, as the US (and many other countries'?) SS system is that of pay as you go -- we pay ss taxes for today's retirees -- the fact that we've paid taxes for XX years doesn't promiss us much in our old ages.
Or at least that's my understanding.

Besides, the future of ss system in this and many other countries (including my home country!!) appears to be very uncertain even to my nonexpert eye..

 

[hanging in here]

Apparently I was wrong about non-us citizens/PRs being able to collect SS checks abroad. At the moment, it seems to be the privilege of US citizens only to get those checks outside of the US..

 

[TheRealCanadian]

Apparently I was wrong about non-us citizens/PRs being able to collect SS checks abroad. At the moment, it seems to be the privilege of US citizens only to get those checks outside of the US..

It depends on your citizenship and country of residence. Some countries (notably Canada and Western European nations) have treaties with the US for totalization - basically my Canada Pension contributions count as quarters for SS.