Social Security Signature

  1. Get enrolled full-time. If you are a newly arrived student, you must also check-in with the ISSO to active your SEVIS record.

  2. Obtain a completed on-campus employment verification letter from your supervisor.
  3. Upload the letter from your supervisor to the Social Security Number Application in iGlobal. It will take the ISSO 7-10 business days to issue the additional letter you need to apply for your SSN.

  4. Take the letters from your supervisor and the ISSO along with your passport and your I-20 or DS-2019 to the US Federal Building at 15th St. and P St.

    Students may use SSA’s new Online Social Security Number Application by visiting www.ssa.gov/ssnumber. Once they complete the information online, they travel to their local Social Security office with their required evidence in hand, check in at the kiosk, provide their online control number from their application, and meet with a SSA representative to verify the information they completed online and review the documentation.