I will apologize in advance if I am posting this in the wrong area. My wife obtained her CR-1 and entered the country on 7/14/20. When we submitted her DS-260, we answered YES when asked if we wanted the SSA to issue a SSN and card. It's now been over 3 months and we have not received her card. I contacted the SSA after she had been in the country for a little over a month and they informed me that due to COVID that it is now taking up to 3 months to receive her card. They told us she could come in for an interview and they would issue her a SSN but they warned against it as she may then have 2 SSN's assigned to her so we headed their advice and waited.
Another issue is that she has also not received her green card which I was lead to believe could take up to 120 days which we are beyond that as well. My concern is that nothing that was supposed to just automatically occur after entering the country is happening. Does anyone know whether or not a SSN must be assigned BEFORE they will issue her a green card? The reason I am asking is that generally (BEFORE COVID), it would only take 30 days to get your SS card in the mail and then another couple of months you would get your green card. Perhaps the reason that she has not received her green card is due to the fact that she does not yet have a SSN assigned.
We have made an appointment with the local SSA office for an interview in a couple of weeks so that she can at least get a SSN assigned but will we then need to also manually request the green card that was supposed to have already arrived?
I would appreciate anyone chiming in that is either intimately aware of the process following entry into the country or has also only recently entered the country and perhaps is in the same boat as we are.