sunnymit
02-19 02:22 PM
My wife came to US in 2008 on H4 visa. Last year (2009) she got her H1-B visa approved. She applied for a SSN on Oct 1st, 2009 but is still waiting on it! When we enquired from the SS office about the delay they said that her first and last names in INS database are mispelled which is why it doesn't match their system, hence the delay. Even though I showed them the H1-B approval notice with the correct name on it they keep insisting that the INS system that they are verifying against shows the mispelled name. I took an Infopass and went to the INS office and got the confirmation that there is no such problem with their system. Both SS office and INS are not giving me anything in writing that I can take to the other party in order to get the issue resolved. It has been almost 5 months and we are still waiting for her SSN.
Has anyone else faced this issue?
What should we do to get this fixed? What are our options here?
Has anyone else faced this issue?
What should we do to get this fixed? What are our options here?
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suttu
01-14 01:18 PM
There have been cases reported in past on this forum where the PERM approval was lost in mail.
You should ask your employer to download the PERM approval from DOL ETA website, which should be completed and signed by both you and your employer (similar to the PERM paper approval that you did not receive).
Your lawyer should submit this form with I-140 and also request USCIS to obtain a duplicate copy of PERM approval from DOL. This may help.
Are you porting to EB2?
Yes i was hoping to port to EB2.
The issue is that the lawyer says that they will follow this process of dowloading the cert and request USCIS to get a dupe, but hey say they cannot do this under premium processing and will have to file under regular I140. this adds 6 months to the process and effectively eliminates any advantage since i hope to get my EB3 485 current by that time.
You should ask your employer to download the PERM approval from DOL ETA website, which should be completed and signed by both you and your employer (similar to the PERM paper approval that you did not receive).
Your lawyer should submit this form with I-140 and also request USCIS to obtain a duplicate copy of PERM approval from DOL. This may help.
Are you porting to EB2?
Yes i was hoping to port to EB2.
The issue is that the lawyer says that they will follow this process of dowloading the cert and request USCIS to get a dupe, but hey say they cannot do this under premium processing and will have to file under regular I140. this adds 6 months to the process and effectively eliminates any advantage since i hope to get my EB3 485 current by that time.
FredG
April 8th, 2004, 08:53 AM
good idea!