SS# Snafoo

[Mo_Mati 2]

I am wondering if anyone has any advice for us. We went to the SS# office after waiting the appropriate 2 week period to do so. When we finally got to the counter and the officer checked his fiance's alien number in the computer it was still listed under a B2 visa. My fiance came to visit once in Feb 2007 and that visa is still connected to his alien number in the system, I guess. Obviously his passport shows that his B2 visa has been canceled, and he has a K-1 visa that was stamped at the POE. But I guess that was not good enough.

On top of that we realized while there that my fiance never filled out the I-94. When he entered he read on the back of the I-94 that it was not needed for a K-1....and now he is kicking himself because no one ever asked for it at the POE and so he never went back to fill one out.

We have an INFOPASS appointment for next week....but I am wondering if anyone has any advice how to proceed. Is there any chance the system was just delayed in being updated and if we went back in a few days we could still get the SS#? Is it going to be a problem that we don't have the I-94 for other portions of the paperwork?

Thanks for your help

Mo

[RaTBoX 1]

You can file Form I-102 to get an I-94 if you did not get one upon entry to the United States.

Edited June 2, 2008 by RaTBoX

[pushbrk 13,447]

I am wondering if anyone has any advice for us. We went to the SS# office after waiting the appropriate 2 week period to do so. When we finally got to the counter and the officer checked his fiance's alien number in the computer it was still listed under a B2 visa. My fiance came to visit once in Feb 2007 and that visa is still connected to his alien number in the system, I guess. Obviously his passport shows that his B2 visa has been canceled, and he has a K-1 visa that was stamped at the POE. But I guess that was not good enough.

On top of that we realized while there that my fiance never filled out the I-94. When he entered he read on the back of the I-94 that it was not needed for a K-1....and now he is kicking himself because no one ever asked for it at the POE and so he never went back to fill one out.

We have an INFOPASS appointment for next week....but I am wondering if anyone has any advice how to proceed. Is there any chance the system was just delayed in being updated and if we went back in a few days we could still get the SS#? Is it going to be a problem that we don't have the I-94 for other portions of the paperwork?

Thanks for your help

Mo

You might try contacting the local CBP officer in charge, and ask them to assist in obtaining an I-94. It may or may not work in your situation but it did in ours because the officer stamped the I-94 with a date that doesn't exist.

On the other hand, does your State actually require an SSN to get married? Many have alternate provisions for people who don't and never have has a SSN. There's no work authorization until EAD anyway. By that time the system will show the EAD.

[payxibka 10,048]

Besides the SSA issue... If I am not mistaken, the I-94 is required evidence for AOS, AP, EAD applications... So complications in the future are possible....

Secondly, I cannot believe the POE allowed passage without it...

Edited June 2, 2008 by fwaguy

[Mo_Mati 2]

Yeah, I really cannot believe that they did not ask for it, etiher. As it turns out part of the confusion is that the only other time he left the US (Under the B-2 visa) they did not ask for it as he left. So, he just assumed that it wasn't necessary. So....he has passed through inmigration twice without them asking for it (leaving and now coming in). He does have all passport stamps...so hopefully that will help

How would we get ahold of the local CBP officer? Is there something more that we should do besides goign to INFOPASS?

thanks for all of the advice. I am kinda freaking out