US Immigration from Thailand

Hi everybody

My now-spouse arrived on a K-1 visa about a month ago. We applied for an SSN via mail a week after he arrived, afterwards we married and filed for AOS. After 3 weeks of calling the local SS office, we finally reached a person about the status of our application. Over the course of 20 minutes it was explained to us that K-1 visa holders aren't authorized to work, don't need an SSN, etc. - all things that I know are not true. Reluctantly, they scheduled an interview for us to see if "it will work".

So, we are preparing for the fight at the office. We will bring a copy of: https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0110211530

I worry that since the application was submitted a month ago, we have now married and filed AOS, and my spouse has changed their name. The SSN office asked me about these things during the phone call and I answered truthfully, but I think I know now that marriage and AOS application are irrelevant and we are still eligible for an SSN.

So what is the strategy - do we insist that we want an SSN provided in the pre-marriage name (that is, matching the I-94) of my spouse? Or should we now be asking for an SSN in the new name changed after marriage? What do we say when they bring up that we already applied for AOS and EAD? In the EAD form, we did not request an SSN as we expected to have received one by now.

Thanks...

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Any advice appreciated. We live together here in Thailand, married 3 years, 2 kids together (both US Citizens).

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