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Get the USA Social Security Number adventure

There are two main things you need to have in order to survive in the US: the USA Social Security Number (SSN) and a bank account, otherwise, you are not considered a citizen!

Actually, everything depends just on getting your USA Social Security Number. It is such an important number here that when you finally get a tiny cardboard with a printed number it’s kind of disappointing.

So why is it so important?

First of all and mainly, you cannot get paid without it. Then, you are neither allowed to open a bank account without it. Even when you want to enroll a gym you are asked for this number. Therefore, if you don’t have it you are totally screwed…

Everybody would agree that for such an important issue a lot of care should be taken. Funny thing is that it is totally the opposite…The administration is not one of the strongest points of the USA. Actually, it works awfully badly. It took me 5 weeks to get my SSN, no matter how hard I tried to get it earlier. I was so desperate because nobody was willing to help me with it and I needed it so badly because I had to pay my rent and deal with lots of my initials expenses without being able to get my paycheck because I still didn’t have this number.

The procedure to get your USA Social Security Number is supposed to be the following: just after arriving you go to the SS Office and ask for your SSN providing the requested documents. Then, you are told to wait about two weeks for the SSN to be delivered. It should not take long but sometimes it does, as it did in my case…

After those two weeks, I called the office but they were not able to tell me anything (or they did not want to), so I visited it a second time. I was just told to wait 2 more weeks…but they could not even tell me whether the number had already been sent or not… I asked them to tell me at least the number itself since you don’t even need the card to operate, you just need to know your number! However, they neither want to provide it to me claiming that they were not allowed to… So 4 weeks after I visited the SS Office once again. This time, a lovely woman helped me and she was impressed about me being there for the third time. She told me that in the SS Office everything depends on the person who you talk to the first day, and you could either be lucky or not. I wish that woman had helped me the first day because I am sure that everything would have been easier. Regardless of the card, she also told me my SSN which I was told before that was not possible. So it is indeed! One week later I received my letter with the cardboard but by that time I had already sorted my issues out and I just kept it.

The question is: why when buying something online you are provided a tracking number, you are warned of the shipping day and time of delivery and so on but for such an important thing you just have to be in a limbo waiting?

I don’t mean to scare you, this is just a warning to let you know that this could happen. But in the end, you will get it!Financial District New York

 

Claudia Conde

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