Pulaski

Me too.

Rete

My personal opinion is that part of the need is the SAVE system. When you change your status with SSA to US Citizen, it is also changed on the SAVE system. Also I recall discussions that US Citizen enjoy a larger tax free amount of tax allowances on inheritance than LPR's.

durham_lad

I have to do it through the FBU at the US Embassy in London and in my interview was told I needed to send in both the US passport and the Naturalization certificate, once their offices were open again after Covid, or come in person with both. I hate sending off my passport so we decided to go in person once my wife is ready to apply early next year, and the lady at the FBU said that would be fine. We already have a week at a London hotel booked that we had to cancel and take a credit to use anytime before January, 2022.

Those of you with HI policies through the ACA, did they accept a US passport or did you have to also upload your Naturalization certificate? We went through that process a few years ago so that is 2 Federal government departments that have seen it.

Giantaxe

I was on an ACA policy (for one month before Medicare; just one more example of the insane mess of access to healthcare in the US...). I was asked for my naturalization certificate number but never had to produce the certificate. I wasn't asked for any details about my US passport. Given the short time I was on the policy, I guess they could retroactively ask for more info.

durham_lad

Thanks for that. The number format online wouldn’t accept our Certificate numbers so had to upload a copy for manual verification. Same happened to a friend of mine whose Naturalization was earlier than us and this was in the second year of the ACA so maybe they fixed their system.

Giantaxe

I'm in California so this is using the Covered California website, not the federal site.

durham_lad

Gotcha. We were using healthcare.gov as we lived in Texas.

SpoogleDrummer

I wouldn't count on it, I seem to encounter the same bugs year after year on it. That said I'm pretty sure I only entered my certificate number when I filled out my last application but it was my first as a citizen.

ivanidea

I finally got around to phoning my local Social Security office (naturized in February), only to be told that since it's not urgent, I need to wait until the office reopens after Covid shutdown. No idea when that will be though.

tht

I naturalized in the summer of 2019, I did my US passport try same day, I did the DMV 2 years later/last week (waited till I had to do a renewal anyway) and plan to do the SSA in the next year or 2, I think the local office is near the courthouse so was planing to combine doing that with Jury duty, just had that postponed for CV19 so will see when that happens. I think that’s the last thing I have to do..

Glasgow Girl

I had to get a replacement SSN card (lost the original) during Covid last year and got an appointment for that. As part of that process they had to check my immigration status and they took my certificate and updated the system at that time. You could try that if you just want to get it out of the way,