SSN with EAD/AP

[Carsten & Alyssa 0]

When we applied for my wifes AOS/EAD/AP there was a question in one of the forms asking if we wanted to get a SSN at the same time.

 

My wife just got her EAD/AP card.  We are still waiting to get scheduled for her interview.  

 

We did apply for her SSN a few weeks after she arrived here last year, but they did not issue her a SSN because "they could not verify her status".  We did not follow up with them until it was too late and her I-94 had expired.

 

 

So my question is, since we checked the box in the AOS application for her to get a SSN card, will it arrive soon since she already received her EAD/AP card?  Or can we go to the SSN office again and apply again.  I don't want to confuse things since we checked that box in the documents.  I guess I assumed the SSN would come at the same time as her EAD/AP combo card.

 

Thanks in advance for all the advice.

[aaron2020 11,651]

Don't assume anything.  Go to to the local SSA office and ask.

[Dashinka 23,273]

I agree, go down to the SSA, you can apply if they do not find anything in their system.

[K1visaHopeful 2,665]

If you applied for it on the I765 it will come in the mail 7 to 10 days after the EAD arrives if not sooner. 

You can even check on it by calling SSA Headquarters in MD as that's who issues it, not your local SSA office.

[mc962 55]

For us, a EAD-related SSN card was delivered within a week or so of the EAD I believe.