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On 6/4/2020 at 7:20 AM, razorontour said:

I've had varying success with SSA staff. They definitely can search with an alien registration number at the card center (not the central SSA office). You just need to get the right person on the phone. It may well be that they don't have your details but at least you can then rule out the possibility of a misspelt name. 

Thank you! I ended up calling 4 local offices. None of them were able to do a search using USCIS number, but one of them understood my request and we were able to get the SSN!

My SSA office could not find my wife in their database and was unable to search with a USCIS number.

On 5/19/2020 at 3:03 PM, razorontour said:

Just an update on this. Today I spoke to a really helpful lady at my local SSA card production center. She was able to find and give me my SSN over the phone. Turns out a card had been mailed to me but it was never delivered (and I didn't even know they had attempted delivery) because government documents are not delivered to mailboxes that do not have the name of the recepient written inside the mailbox (who knew?!). So to anyone who: applied for a SSN on their visa application form, lives in an apartment complex, entered the US more than 3 weeks ago and is still waiting for their SSN, do the following:

1) call your SSA field office (can be found on the SSA website) and ask for the number of your local card production center (if one exists).

2) Call the card production center and ask them to search for your record using your your USCIS/Alien registration number. It's important they search with that number in case your name has been entered incorrectly. 

 

Finally, make sure your name is written on a card somewhere INSIDE your mailbox.

 

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Thanks so much, this is really helpful. My mailbox has my name on it but not my wife's, so that must be the reason. Bumping the thread for anyone else in this situation.

Just got our EAD notice in the mail! Looks like they are still working at a normal pace. My submission was in November, I think @gxbriceno should definitely go with anything possible to speed up!

Hi, I just signed up to reply to you because I am in exactly the same boat with regards to constantly checking EAD. I also submitted in Nov 2019 and the lack of EAD is very stressful for me and my spouse.

AOS: scheduled for an interview March 15

EAD: updated for fingerprints Dec 17

AP: updated for fingerprints March 5

I checked this several times and I can confirm my EAD and AP are precisely the inverse of yours, and this had no impact on anything else in the process -- we are in the same boat. I think this just goes to show that USCIS works at their own pace and we won't know how progress is being made until it comes.