My husband arrived in the US on June 4th arriving on a K1 visa and we got married and filed for I-485, I-765, and I-131 the next week. He then applied for his SSN at his local SSA office on June 24th. Now the big mistake we did was not checking “yes” when the I-765 asked if he wanted to get issued a SSN with his EAD. The reason we did this was because we had thought he would’ve gotten his SSN by now. Unfortunately, it’s been 8 weeks now and his I-94 expires in 2 weeks so we doubt he’ll be getting his SSN by then. We’ve tried calling our local office multiple times who just say that they’re waiting on DHS to authorize and verify his I-94 and there’s nothing they can do.
We’re now thinking about the worst case scenario, which is if he doesn’t receive his SSN by his I-94 expiration date, what do we do? Would he just have to go back to our local office and reapply for a SSN, this time with his EAD? Does the local office still have to check with DHS to authorize since he now doesn’t need his I-94 to get his SSN if he’ll have his EAD? We don’t want to have to end up waiting another 8 weeks for SSA to issue him a SSN after his EAD as it’s already taking so long for a work permit.