G325A SSN for my spouse?

[kusodealer 0]

Hi, this is my very first post and I will probably be asking questions from now on so I'd like to appreciate in advance everyone who will be answeing my questions!

I just got married to my wife in Japan last month and now I am working on I-130 so she gets to come to the States.

My first question is regarding G325A Line 2: Social security Number...

My wife used to be an exchange student in US and she applied for I-765 so she gets to work OPT for a year after her graduation. She got approved by USCIS but she decided not to work afterall and go back to Japan and find a job there instead.

TBH I don't know much about I-765 but basically it temporarily allows foreign students to work in US right? According to my wife, she received a SSN from USCIS at the time. She is not 100% sure if it was social security card because it's been awhile. I asked her to show me the card and she doesn't have it anymore

Does a foregin student really receive SSN when his/her I-765 gets approved? If the card she received from USCIS was really a SSN, how can she retrieve the number? Again, she's in Japan and doesn't have the card anymore so idk what to do about this any advice is appreciated!

[liefie 1]

I think just leave it as N/A

I went to USA 2 years ago on a J1 visa, but I was not a student, I was sent on an assignment of my previous company, all the other co-workers went on L1 visa but me because I had just joined the company for less than 1 year, I couldn't get a L1 visa according to some rule from USA embassy.

What I want to tell you is that I also received an SSN from USCIS, and also I don't have the card anymore.

I applied B visa for 2 times after came back from the J visa journey, I left the Social security Number in DS160 as N/A, my B visa got approved for both times.

[kusodealer 0]

Thanks for the reply liefie. Interesting fact!

[kusodealer 0]

I went to local USCIS office and spoke to this USCIS officer about this issue. He told me that I can just write "unknown." He said that USCIS needs the G325A just to get as much as background information of the applicant and it is not that critical as I was thinking. Now I get to proceed on my application process! Woohoo