How long for SSN after entry into US?

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I just received my CR-1 visa. 10 months... what a long process and yet it seems we were lucky to do it faster than most. Whoever said patience was a virtue must have gone through US immigration.

 

On the DS260 form I checked "Yes" to needing a SSN. I understand it's meant to be automatically sent to me, but:

 

 - do I need to do anything else or just sit tight? Is it at POE that they begin processing this?

 - can anybody share their experience with getting their SSN after a CR1, like how long it took?

[Dashinka 23,448]

14 minutes ago, Apelcina said:

I just received my CR-1 visa. 10 months... what a long process and yet it seems we were lucky to do it faster than most. Whoever said patience was a virtue must have gone through US immigration.

 

On the DS260 form I checked "Yes" to needing a SSN. I understand it's meant to be automatically sent to me, but:

 

 - do I need to do anything else or just sit tight? Is it at POE that they begin processing this?

 - can anybody share their experience with getting their SSN after a CR1, like how long it took?

This was a question I was asking a little more than a month ago as my cousins on my wife's side entered the US on DV's.  They also checked the box on the DS260 to get a SSC.  Fast forward two weeks, no cards, but the GCs arrived, so we went down to the SSA to see if they could give us any information on the SSCs progress.  They looked my cousins up on their system and it showed nothing in the works, so my cousins promptly applied for cards and received them about 10 days later. 

 

If you do decide to go down to the SSA, I suggest waiting for your actual GC as for some reason there are clerks at the SSA that do not understand that an endorsed IV (CR1/IR1/DV, etc.) is in fact a GC.  Also, if you go down to the SSA, go in the afternoons as they don't seem to be as busy.

 

Good Luck!

[Ryan H 3,798]

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