mrfuture

Hi! Thank you for reading! I have a question and I hope someone here can help me. Ok, I'm french but I live in the USA....I have my social security number and my VISA (Permanent Resident Card IR2) and in 3 years I'll get my American Passport (citizenship). Me and my girlfriend (she is from Colombia) are thinking about marriage. I was told that once we marry, I might have chances to give her a Social Security Number and a Visa, just like me. Is that true? Don't you need to be a citizen in order to give your wife social and visa, or you only need to be a permanent resident? your help would be really appreciated...thanx!!!!

Mark

Hnchoksi

    >Subject: Please Help ME....
    >From: mrfuture [email protected]
    >Date: 12/14/02 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
    >Message-id:
    >Hi! Thank you for reading! I have a question and I hope someone here can
    >help me. Ok, I'm french but I live in the USA....I have my social
    >security number and my VISA (Permanent Resident Card IR2) and in 3 years
    >I'll get my American Passport (citizenship). Me and my girlfriend (she
    >is from Colombia) are thinking about marriage. I was told that once we
    >marry, I might have chances to give her a Social Security Number and a
    >Visa, just like me. Is that true? Don't you need to be a citizen in
    >order to give your wife social and visa, or you only need to be a
    >permanent resident? your help would be really appreciated...thanx!!!!
    >Mark

You don't give her anything. You petition for her green card and after she
gets it, she can apply for an SSN.

Razorback Fan

Well, she can get a SSN even before she gets her green card; to get a SSN,
she needs to apply to the Social Security Administration; for GC, you
petition INS on her behalf. Before the GC is approved, her SS card will say
"not allowed to work in the U.S." After the GC is approved, she can go to a
SS Admin office and get the condition removed. Let me point out another
thing that's important - as a permanent resident petitioning for your wife,
there may be a long wait (several years) before your wife gets the GC. You
might want to check out the waiting time at www.ins.gov. Good luck,

R'back
"Hnchoksi" wrote in message
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    > >Subject: Please Help ME....
    > >From: mrfuture [email protected]
    > >Date: 12/14/02 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
    > >Message-id:
    > >
    > >
    > >Hi! Thank you for reading! I have a question and I hope someone here can
    > >help me. Ok, I'm french but I live in the USA....I have my social
    > >security number and my VISA (Permanent Resident Card IR2) and in 3 years
    > >I'll get my American Passport (citizenship). Me and my girlfriend (she
    > >is from Colombia) are thinking about marriage. I was told that once we
    > >marry, I might have chances to give her a Social Security Number and a
    > >Visa, just like me. Is that true? Don't you need to be a citizen in
    > >order to give your wife social and visa, or you only need to be a
    > >permanent resident? your help would be really appreciated...thanx!!!!
    > >
    > >Mark
    > >
    > You don't give her anything. You petition for her green card and after
she
    > gets it, she can apply for an SSN.

Joachim Feise

Razorback Fan wrote:
    > Well, she can get a SSN even before she gets her green card; to get a SSN,
    > she needs to apply to the Social Security Administration; for GC, you
    > petition INS on her behalf. Before the GC is approved, her SS card will say
    > "not allowed to work in the U.S."

Hmm, the Social Security Administration doesn't give out SSNs anymore unless
they are really needed. They have stopped issuing the "not allowed to work"
variety quite some time ago.
They also stopped giving out SSN solely for DMV purposes (AFAIK, there was
a court ruling against that recently, I don't know how that's going to affect
this).

    > thing that's important - as a permanent resident petitioning for your wife,
    > there may be a long wait (several years) before your wife gets the GC. You
    > might want to check out the waiting time at www.ins.gov. Good luck,

Family category 2a currently has a 5-year backlog. See the Visa Bulletin
at http://travel.state.gov/visa_bulletin.html

Razorback Fan

I apologize - I was not aware the rules have changed - I was referring to my
own situation a few years back where I had a SSN for several years as an F-1
student well before I got a green card. In fact I came to the US on a
student visa with a teaching asistantship and the University was able to
obtain a SSN for me upon my arrival. Anyway, thanks for the update,
R'back


chim Feise" wrote in message
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    > Razorback Fan wrote:
    > > Well, she can get a SSN even before she gets her green card; to get a
SSN,
    > > she needs to apply to the Social Security Administration; for GC, you
    > > petition INS on her behalf. Before the GC is approved, her SS card will
say
    > > "not allowed to work in the U.S."
    > Hmm, the Social Security Administration doesn't give out SSNs anymore
unless
    > they are really needed. They have stopped issuing the "not allowed to
work"
    > variety quite some time ago.
    > They also stopped giving out SSN solely for DMV purposes (AFAIK, there was
    > a court ruling against that recently, I don't know how that's going to
affect
    > this).
    > > thing that's important - as a permanent resident petitioning for your
wife,
    > > there may be a long wait (several years) before your wife gets the GC.
You
    > > might want to check out the waiting time at www.ins.gov. Good luck,
    > Family category 2a currently has a 5-year backlog. See the Visa Bulletin
    > at http://travel.state.gov/visa_bulletin.html