SSN without approved EAD ??

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rex1960

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I was wondering about this. I'm filing I-485 and I-765 (my wife filing I-130 concurrently), which means I'm waiting patiently for EAD.
Sooner or later the interview will come, in which they try to figure out whether our marriage is bona fide or not. In order to prove that we'll need bills with both our names on it and a shared bank account and all that. Here comes the catch, though. In order to put my name on my wife's bank existing bank account or to open a mutual new one, I'd need a Social Secrity Number, which I won't get until EAD is approved, that's at least how I understand it.
Furthermore, I would like to have a DL but in order to get one I'd need the SSN again. If I'd keep on driving with the DL from my home country I'd be violating traffic laws which won't be good for my criminal record, right ?

So how on earth am I going to get an SSN prior to EAD ? Is there any chance ?
 
SS requires legal stay in US. Why dont u go to SS office with all the papers and ask them. I know several cases in which they issue the SS without the EAD or something. you can show that your case is pending and you need this for the DL and the rest of your affairs in life.

Good Luck.


rex1960 said:
I was wondering about this. I'm filing I-485 and I-765 (my wife filing I-130 concurrently), which means I'm waiting patiently for EAD.
Sooner or later the interview will come, in which they try to figure out whether our marriage is bona fide or not. In order to prove that we'll need bills with both our names on it and a shared bank account and all that. Here comes the catch, though. In order to put my name on my wife's bank existing bank account or to open a mutual new one, I'd need a Social Secrity Number, which I won't get until EAD is approved, that's at least how I understand it.
Furthermore, I would like to have a DL but in order to get one I'd need the SSN again. If I'd keep on driving with the DL from my home country I'd be violating traffic laws which won't be good for my criminal record, right ?

So how on earth am I going to get an SSN prior to EAD ? Is there any chance ?
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Good luck with that on the SSA. Some DMV accept the papers that you have right now and you can get a letter from the SSA that why you can't get a SSN right now. That really depends in your state and what office you are going to. Most of the SSA since they are regulated by federal law not state law they will ask you some kind of "approved" document from the USCIS to stablish your legal situation in the country to issue a SSN.
Anyway, you don't have to worry about the "joint" stuff right now since you are just beginning your process. Most of us start the same way and wait for our EAD and then get everything joint. And in the case that your interview come before that your EAD, you have all the information that why you don't have anything joint. There are some cards that accept a co-user without having a SSN. Actually some type of bills won't accept you as a joint even having a SSN because you are neither a US citizen nor a permanent resident yet.
So don't worry.
Good luck,
 
I went to the local SS office and they denied an SSN since I'm just an LPR applicant for now and I don't have an EAD yet.
With the denial letter they gave me I went to my local DMV office today. They accepted it. All I have to do now is take a written test since german DLs have no expiration dates and therefore no renewals. Because its so old it's not considered equally to "out-of-state" DLs from anywhere in the US. Otherwise it wouldn't have been a problem to get a DL right away.
That's fine. I can live with that.
 
kamrans said:
SS requires legal stay in US. Why dont u go to SS office with all the papers and ask them. I know several cases in which they issue the SS without the EAD or something.
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The SSA will only issue an SSN if the applicant is legally within the United States and is eligible to work. Legal stay alone will not do it - you require an approved EAD. Some SSA offices may have ignored their own rules in the past, but this is becoming rarer and rarer.
 
TheRealCanadian said:
The SSA will only issue an SSN if the applicant is legally within the United States and is eligible to work. Legal stay alone will not do it - you require an approved EAD. Some SSA offices may have ignored their own rules in the past, but this is becoming rarer and rarer.
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That's exactly what the SS officer told me.
But since I got this official denial letter, I can at least get a DL and my wife is able to put my name on her bank account making it a shared one.
Furthermore, she's now able to put me on her IRS forms.
 
Hi, Rex,

Can you explain what procedure to follow to add the GC applicants as dependents in the tax return forms? Thanks.

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Hi, Rex,

Can you explain what procedure to follow to add the GC applicants as dependents in the tax return forms? Thanks.

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We went to the local IRS office and they told us to fill out a form W-7 and add it to the 1040 my wife's got to file. That'll give me a tax ID number which they put on my wifes papers and forward it to IRS.
I haven't seen that form yet but I'm pretty sure we got to prove my AOS and everything, marriage certificate and all kinds of other copies.
It sounds a little complicated for me right now since I've never had anything to do with IRS before, whatsoever. We'll see how it works.
We just won't be able to do that online, that's the only catch I see so far.
 
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Hi TheRealCanadian, not really related to EAD, but noticed you were also from canada, might you shed some light on how long it took for you to recieve your SSN. My next step is gettin that Dl which im hoping they will just transfer my Canadian to the us one.Guess ill see.
 
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