sweet s asked: i had a conditional greencard which i surrendered back in september i also got a social security number. i have not lived in the usa for the passed 7 months and am now back living in my homeland england. what happens to the social security number, i left in the usa in a hurry when i was 4 months pregnant i left my violent, abbusie and selfish mama boy husband and had my baby in the uk where i new she would be safe. my greencard was due to run out in december and as i didn,t want to go back to the usa and be with my husband or my interfering mother inlaw i surrendered it. i have not heard anything from my daughters father since she was born ( 5 weeks early) and my mother inlaw just expects me to go back with my daughter because it is her grand daughter ( i hae said she can see her grand daughter when ever she likes but she will have to fly over the pond to do so) today she sent me an email saying she wants a copy of my childs birth certificate so she can get her a social security number, i just woundered my daughter is a british citizen and not a dual national and will not be living in the usa does she still need a social security number,
Grand National
Wow…that spelling is painful.
Your daughter, as a UK citizen, does not need nor qualifies for a Social Security number. Good luck.
Your MIL is an interfering bitch.
So, are you divorced? Sometimes divorces get hung up if the children of the marriage do not have SSNs.
Obviously, you don’t have to give your MIL a damn thing.
If I were you, I may seek some legal advice re your own SSN and getting divorced with your hubby’s child not having a SSN even though she’s with you and born in the UK. As far as I know unless you surrender the SSN it remains in effect.
There is no reason your mother in law should have your child’s birth certificate. That is not her business or her right You don’t get a social security number for a child until she is 2 years old. The answer is no, your daughter does not need an American ID Your daughter is not an American citizen and is a British subject. Is your daughter living in Engand with you?
Actually, your daughter may well be entitled to US citizenship! Since you were married to her father at the time of her birth and her father is a US citizen there’s a good chance that she is also a US citizen.
Here’s what I’d suggest that you do. Take proof of her birth and your marriage license to the US Embassy in London and ask to have her foreign birth recorded. The Embassy staff can advise you if she is entitled to US citizenship based upon the facts at hand. If she is, they will document that fact and you can apply for her SSN through the Embassy as well as her US passport.
Once you have secured those, just put them away for safe keeping until your daughter becomes of age. At that point, she can decide what she wants to do. That old expired passport and SS card will be per ticket to a new passport and unrestricted travel to the US at any time that she should choose, should she wish to do so. If she’s legally entitled to US citizenship she may be able to prove it in future without your documenting it now but it will be MUCH easier on her later on if you do the legwork now.
The one thing that you don’t need to do is give her gran the birth certificate. If your daughter is entitled to an SSN, the US Embassy in London can do that for you. Neither her dad nor her gran can claim the child as their dependent given the facts as you have presented them, so neither of them need to know the child’s SSN, or even if she even has one. (Getting the SSN now through the Embassy will also thwart any chicanery on their end should they try to apply for one from the US. The father probably can get a copy of her UK birth certificate since he’s still legally the father.)
As to your SSN, once an SSN is issued it stays with you for life if it was an unrestricted SSN valid for work in the US. If it was a restricted SSN it still stays with you for life unless you subsequently qualify for an unrestricted SSN.
she wants to claim the child either on the father’s return or hers
however, since the child apparently has spent the majority ‘nites’ with you, IRS accepts the parent who fulfills that criteria as the one to claim the exemption
if you feel you will never, ever, return to the US in any capacity and especially to work, you might send your card back to the Social security Administration and ask them to cancel it