On October 22 I completed a form SS-5 (Request for replacement Social Security Card) and, per instructions, mailed it with my passport enclosed, certified mail, to my local Social Security office.(5TH FLOOR, 237 W 48TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10036 ). My return receipt shows that the package arrived and was signed for by a SSA employee.
Time passes. Now it's a month and a half later - far longer than the 2 week turnaround promised. No response from the SSA. I called their main toll free number and tried to get a current status. No luck; I have to contact my local office. The local office deliberately does not list their phone number.
So now I am left with only one option, the one I wanted to avoid in the first place. I have to take a day off from work and stand in line at the SSA to find out what happened to my application and passport.
Does anyone have a good alternative for me? I don't want to waste a day at the SSA. Thanks!
2007-12-14
08:23:00
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Daniel S
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