Do you guys not know that legal immigrants can get SSN's in the USA?

Question

I am shocked by some of the answers I'm receiving to other questions with people stating that legal temporary migrant workers cannot get SSN's with their visa. My husband came here as a legal farm-worker, applied for and received a SS card that looks just like yours and mine and he has paid taxes with that LEGAL and VALID SSN assigned to him by our government since he got here. Even after he over-stayed his visa and became "illegal."

His brother has a REAL SSN, his cousins, etc. And guess what guys? They ALL pay taxes into a system in which they'll never be eligible to use themselves.

dear bigred....thank you for your concern but that was many years back for us. He is a citizen now. I just think back to how we tried to get him back here legally after he went back and we followed every step and paid every fee, dotted every i and crossed every t but the gov't didn't care. To them he was just a criminal who oer-stayed his visa. He came back illegally, we married and paid the "fine" along with even more fees to the gov't for fingerprints, work permits, processing this & that. It's hard to do the immigration thing legally these days. I know, we tried.

dear AveGirl.....this was many years back for me & my husband. He is a citizen now. He did not go back to renew his visa because he left the $3/hr. farm job he came here for to take a better paying job. That violated the terms of his visa. He now owns his own company and we have a very comfortable life. Thank you for your concern.

Answer 1

That's only so he can pay taxes! If they are legal immigrants they should be able to get a SSN! Most of them do!!

Answer 2

Yes, of course we know this. However, I think that what YOU don't understand is that MANY illegals do NOT originally come here with a work visa or a visitor's visa - they just cross over the border illegally and then they either work for cash or else they buy fraudulent/fake ID, including SSNs. Oftentimes the SSNs belong to another citizen (in which case they often ruin that legal citizen's financial history and future), or they buy SSNs that they share fraudulently among several illegals.

I agree with the answer that AveGirl gave to you.

People do NOT have a problem with legal immigration - that is not the issue that we disagree with here, for the most part. We disagree with illegal immigration, including visa overstays. I am in agreement that you and your hubby had to pay so much to get him legal - it was his and your fault that he allowed his status to change to illegal when he originally had a legal work visa, in the first place!

I am also hoping that the government will start going after visa-overstayers big-time, though I suspect that because they did get a SSN or a TIN, the government is more hesitant to go after these people, obviously, because they ARE actually paying taxes and even paying money into the Social Security Plan (that is in big trouble, apparently), even though they cannot collect from Social Security - the government is loath to stop these free contributions, I think.

Answer 3

Why then didn't your husband just do the rest of what he was supposed to do while his visa was still active?

He was to get passport pictures, acquire proof of residence, job status, and other things.

Then at the time of visa renewal, bring the required documents and ask for renewal. If you are an established contribution to society, your visa is passed and renewed.

You keep doing this until you are a valid citizen. With you two being married as well, all of this should never had been a problem or even came to a point where he became illegal.

My nephew is married to a woman from columbia, this is how I know about this. So please don't tell me I don't know or I am misinformed. I got it straight from her.

Of course when it was time for the visa renewal, it is a very stressful and worryful time, but she did it. Now she is legal and your husband could be too.

Good luck and hope you keep trying.

Answer 4

yes, the can get ssn and pay taxes but millions do not. In fact I have seen illegals scared come to the hospital scared to even give us their name because the are afraid of us reporting them. do you think these people are walking into a federal building to get an ssn. If they where willing to do that the could just get a visa. I would suggest your husband get his visa problem straight even though you are now married he still can be arrested. If he goes in himself being married they usually work with them but if they catch you it can get complicated. If he already has congratulations

Answer 5

i'm a Guatemalan legal immigrant, yet i have no longer some thing hostile to Mexican unlawful immigrants themselves. I do have some thing hostile to the authorities of Mexico, yet that's yet another situation. i trust some thing must be finished about unlawful immigration when you consider that open borders might want to in hardship-free words be yet another step in the route of anarchy, yet i do not trust the answer's in only deporting and closing the borders. that's only a fascist determination to attempt this, and it form of feels fairly very resembling Nazism to me.

Answer 6

Now illegals get tax ID numbers from the IRS. They may pay taxes, but most get more benefits (medicaid, food stamps, housing, public schools, than they will ever pay in.

Answer 7

Thanks for reminding people about the facts. They also don't seem to understand the employers encourage illegal immigration so they can pay sub-standard wages and improve their bottom line! The employers many times are the real criminals here.

Answer 8

i agree with cantcu