Quick Question - SS cards

I'm starting my usual summer seasonal job at Nike and I completely forgot my passport expired. Low and behold my boss calls and says an expired passport will not work for the I-9. I do not have a social security card or birth certificate because I've always used my license and passport for that sort of stuff. Ideally they want me to start working ASAP but I do not have the necessary documentation.

So -

Can I drive to the nearest SS office and fill out all the paperwork and have them give me some sort of notice/paper that says I applied for a replacement card and use that?

Renew my passport - but that'll take forever. I hear you have a five month window for renewal after it expires.

Or - shit out of luck and have to wait for the US government to take its sweet fucking time to send out a piece of paper with a number on it ?

Yeah, I know, this is pretty unprofessional of me in terms of being organized.

Thanks.

 

The Luftwaffe required cards. The SS didn't

 

Madhavok: I did some research when I thought I'd lost mine a month or so ago, and I think SS cards don't take too long. Also, depending on where you were born, you can order a replacement birth certificate and they'll send it to you pretty quickly. I did it with Michigan.

 

If you are within the state where you were born, you can drive to the town where you were born and get certified copy of birth certificate on the spot, at least you can in NJ

 

That'd be ideal, but I'm about 1,700 miles from home. I'd just like to start working tomorrow as they had planned instead of next week. In my winter job, I'm a supervisor and have a hand in the hiring process and I remember one of my workers using an expired passport. In fact, I'm looking at some paperwork right now and with the I-9 it says an expired or valid passport. Do I call my summertime boss and mention it again?

 

I was able to drive to my birth town (only 10-15 minutes away) and get a certified birth certificate recently.

I also needed to get a new social security card. Went to the SSA building and applied for a new card. You can get a free replacement once every few years, I believe.

Anyway, I did get a form that said I had applied for a new card. Don't remember if it had my number on it, though.

It took less than two weeks for the new card to arrive, which obviously doesn't help you.

I forget why I needed the card now, but I sent that form in, along with my correct number written on it, and it was accepted.

 

I've been trying to get in contact with an agent on the phone but keep getting disconnected. The nearest SSA building is about an hour or so away and I'd try to get there right as it opened and back to Nike around 11-ish what that piece of paper to see if that'll work.

 

Oh and I also included a check stub which had my SS number on it. So I think the check stub along with proof that I had applied for a new card was enough for who I needed it for.



Of course, it was someone at this place that had typed in my number wrong to begin with on a renewal form.

 

OK, just spoke with my boss and she said that piece of paper the SSA gives you will be fine. *whew*.

 

Good news!

 

Summer job building shoes in Vietnam for 9 cents a day?

 

Wow, I didn't realize that ... it used to be that an expired passport was an acceptable document for list a, but I just pulled up the 2010 i-9 form and it's not anymore ...

Yes, SS cards can be done quickly from a local office, but you need to get to those offices early, like 30 mins before opening, because they take FOREVER to get it done, and there will be a line.

good luck!