Social Security Number Not Accepted
Sep 28th 2007, 6:12 pm
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Social Security Number Not Accepted
Has anyone ever had an experience of where a bank will not update your records with a SSN? I moved from the UK to the US on a L1. I managed to get an account opened through HSBC before I moved over. I have recently received my SSN marked as they are with "Only valid for work with DHS authorization". When I took it to HSBC they told me that they cannot update my records as I'm not a permanent resident! Weird! How the hell do I go about building a credit history is the credit reference agencies all key off my SSN?
Anyone any experience of this?
Anyone any experience of this?
Sep 28th 2007, 6:14 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
Has anyone ever had an experience of where a bank will not update your records with a SSN? I moved from the UK to the US on a L1. I managed to get an account opened through HSBC before I moved over. I have recently received my SSN marked as they are with "Only valid for work with DHS authorization". When I took it to HSBC they told me that they cannot update my records as I'm not a permanent resident! Weird! How the hell do I go about building a credit history is the credit reference agencies all key off my SSN?
Anyone any experience of this?
Anyone any experience of this?
Go back and insist on speaking to someone higher up.
Sep 28th 2007, 6:29 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
Has anyone ever had an experience of where a bank will not update your records with a SSN? I moved from the UK to the US on a L1. I managed to get an account opened through HSBC before I moved over. I have recently received my SSN marked as they are with "Only valid for work with DHS authorization". When I took it to HSBC they told me that they cannot update my records as I'm not a permanent resident! Weird! How the hell do I go about building a credit history is the credit reference agencies all key off my SSN?
Anyone any experience of this?
Anyone any experience of this?
Last edited by Ray; Sep 28th 2007 at 6:37 pm.
Sep 28th 2007, 6:32 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
But the guy called branch support, called some other guys in HSBC and they all said that they shouldn't accept it. Its bonkers! I pay federal, state, social and medicare. What the hell is going on?!
Sep 28th 2007, 6:34 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
Insist on speaking to a VP or higher - all the rest are just drones.
Sep 28th 2007, 6:35 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
Midnight.
Not a sound from the pavement.
Has the moon lost her mem'ry?
She is smiling alone.
In the lamp-light the withered leaves collect at my feet.
And the wind... begins to moan.
Mem'ry.
All alone in the moonlight... I can smile at the the old days,
Life was beautiful then...
I remember the time I knew what happiness was,
Let the mem'ry live again.
Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic.. warning.
Someone mutters and a street lamp smutters
and soon it will be morning.
Daylight.
I must wait for the sunrise, I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in.
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too.
And a new day will begin.
Burnt out ends of smoky days the stale cold smell of morning.
A street lamp dies, another night is over.
Another day is dawning.
Touch me.
It's so easy to leave me, All alone with the mem'ry
of my days in the sun.
If you touch me you'll understand what happiness is.
Look, a new day has begun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHzoAmA8Ec
Not a sound from the pavement.
Has the moon lost her mem'ry?
She is smiling alone.
In the lamp-light the withered leaves collect at my feet.
And the wind... begins to moan.
Mem'ry.
All alone in the moonlight... I can smile at the the old days,
Life was beautiful then...
I remember the time I knew what happiness was,
Let the mem'ry live again.
Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic.. warning.
Someone mutters and a street lamp smutters
and soon it will be morning.
Daylight.
I must wait for the sunrise, I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in.
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too.
And a new day will begin.
Burnt out ends of smoky days the stale cold smell of morning.
A street lamp dies, another night is over.
Another day is dawning.
Touch me.
It's so easy to leave me, All alone with the mem'ry
of my days in the sun.
If you touch me you'll understand what happiness is.
Look, a new day has begun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHzoAmA8Ec
Last edited by CaliforniaBride; Sep 28th 2007 at 6:41 pm.
Sep 28th 2007, 6:35 pm
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Sep 28th 2007, 7:31 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
You could try handing them a W9 form:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
Note that in certain circumstances it can take a while after you arrive for you to become a "US Resident Alien" for IRS purposes.
(See IRS pub 519 for full gory details http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p519.pdf)
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
Note that in certain circumstances it can take a while after you arrive for you to become a "US Resident Alien" for IRS purposes.
(See IRS pub 519 for full gory details http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p519.pdf)
Last edited by rew1000; Sep 28th 2007 at 7:38 pm. Reason: Tried to add more detail without boring the pants off everyone
Sep 28th 2007, 10:20 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
Has anyone ever had an experience of where a bank will not update your records with a SSN? I moved from the UK to the US on a L1. I managed to get an account opened through HSBC before I moved over. I have recently received my SSN marked as they are with "Only valid for work with DHS authorization". When I took it to HSBC they told me that they cannot update my records as I'm not a permanent resident! Weird! How the hell do I go about building a credit history is the credit reference agencies all key off my SSN?
SSA puts out a High Group list that shows the highest Group within each SSN Area that has been issued. Some businesses use the list to verify SSNs as being valid. Since you say you were just assigned your SSN so it might not be on the Sept 2007 list and that's why they wouldn't accept the number. See if it is on the current list. If it is and it has an * next to it that means it showed up on the list for the first time and the bank is using an old list. If it's not there see if it's on the next list.
http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnvhighgroup.htm
Area Group Serial (AAA-GG-SSSS)
http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnweb.htm
Sep 29th 2007, 1:39 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
Has anyone ever had an experience of where a bank will not update your records with a SSN? I moved from the UK to the US on a L1. I managed to get an account opened through HSBC before I moved over. I have recently received my SSN marked as they are with "Only valid for work with DHS authorization". When I took it to HSBC they told me that they cannot update my records as I'm not a permanent resident! Weird! How the hell do I go about building a credit history is the credit reference agencies all key off my SSN?
Anyone any experience of this?
Anyone any experience of this?
Even though you could go on the Social Security website and clearly see that the first three digits of his SSN were indeed valid. Morons.....
Sep 29th 2007, 1:59 pm
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Re: Social Security Number Not Accepted
My husband had problems getting Verizon to accept his SSN number as valid when we first moved over. They kept telling him it wasn't a valid number because those numbers weren't in the system..... Even though you could go on the Social Security website and clearly see that the first three digits of his SSN were indeed valid. Morons.....
Even though you could go on the Social Security website and clearly see that the first three digits of his SSN were indeed valid. Morons.....
