Fill out and post the Social Safety Shape SS-5 in case you are updating or changing your current Social Safety card, or if you happen to’re soliciting for one for the primary time. Shape SS-5 is one web page, nevertheless it has 18 bins that request 22 various kinds of knowledge.

Even supposing Social Safety Shape SS-5 contains directions, filling it out will also be complicated. Right here’s what you want to understand to grasp and as it should be entire it.

Shape SS-5 is for soliciting for a Social Safety card for the primary time, changing an current Social Safety card or converting knowledge related together with your Social Safety report^[0]

Find out how to fill out Shape SS-5

Shape SS-5 has 18 bins — some are non-compulsory, however you should fill out each and every box that applies to you. The Social Safety Management may deny your software if you happen to don’t supply all the related knowledge.

For field 1, all candidates should fill out the primary line. Spell out your present identify as you need it spelled to your Social Safety card. Should you had a special identify at start — the only to your start certificates — write it on the second one line. Should you’ve used some other felony names, comparable to if you happen to’ve modified your identify ahead of, come with the ones names within the 3rd line.

Field 2 calls for you to fill on your Social Safety quantity if you have already got one. In case you are soliciting for your first Social Safety card, depart this line clean.

Packing containers 3 and four are aspect by means of aspect, so be sure to fill in each bins. In field 3, supply your native land. This will have to fit your start certificates. Spell out the puts fairly than abbreviating them.

In field 4, input your date of start. Use numbers simplest, and put the whole 4 digits for the yr. This will have to additionally fit your different documentation.

Make a choice the choice in field 5 that fits your citizenship standing. You could simplest make a choice one class. Should you examine a field for “Criminal Alien No longer Allowed to Paintings” or “Different,” you’ll wish to supply documentation for why you want a Social Safety card. The documentation will also be from a federal, state or native company. Should you’re no longer positive if you want a Social Safety quantity, you’ll name the SSA to invite.

Packing containers 6 and seven also are aspect by means of aspect. Those bins are non-compulsory, and your software is probably not affected if you happen to skip each bins. If you wish to come with this data, examine the best resolution in field 6 to categorize your ethnic identification. For field 7, examine as many bins as important to seize your racial identification.

Field 8 means that you can mark your most popular gender identification. Even though the shape makes use of the time period “intercourse,” you might be allowed to select which gender you need related together with your Social Safety report. You’ll make a choice a gender identification that does not fit the only lately on report, and also you are not required to supply felony or clinical information to strengthen the gender you choose to your software.

Field 9A calls for you to supply your mom’s start identify. This may well be other from her present identify if she legally modified her identify for any reason why, comparable to getting married. For field 9B, fill on your mom’s Social Safety quantity.

For field 10A, fill on your father’s start identify as smartly. This may well be other from his present identify if he legally modified his identify for any reason why, comparable to getting married. For field 10B, fill on your father’s Social Safety quantity.

If you do not know the Social Safety quantity for one or either one of your oldsters and haven’t any means of studying, examine the field for “Unknown” at the proper. Do not depart the field clean — you will have to both fill within the Social Safety quantity or examine the field for “Unknown.”

Step 8: Point out whether or not you have already got a Social Safety quantity

For field 11, examine the field that applies to you:

• “Sure” when you’ve got a Social Safety quantity and are soliciting for a brand new card or updating the guidelines.

• “No” if you happen to’ve by no means had a Social Safety quantity and are soliciting for one for the primary time.

• “Don’t Know” in case you are not sure when you’ve got a Social Safety quantity. 

Should you spoke back “Sure” for field 11, you should fill out field 12 to finish the appliance. This data relates for your outdated Social Safety card. For field 12, put your identify as it sounds as if to your most up-to-date Social Safety card. Spell it the similar as it sounds as if at the card, although it’s misspelled at the card.

Should you or your dad or mum used a special date of start when making use of in your earlier Social Safety card — as in, you made a typo — input that date in field 13. For an software the place the date of start in field 4 differs from the date of start you entered in field 13, you’ll wish to supply documentation to turn out that the date of start in field 4 is your exact date of start, comparable to an amended start certificates.

Should you’ve at all times used the similar date of start for Social Safety card documentation, depart field 13 clean.

Input the present date in field 14. In field 15, input a telephone quantity the place you’ll be reached throughout the daylight hours, comparable to a mobile phone quantity.

In field 16, put the complete mailing deal with. Most effective use an deal with the place you’ve got common get right of entry to to obtain mail and can be capable of get your card within the mail inside seven to fourteen days of filing your software. Don’t abbreviate any phrases within the deal with. As an example, spell out “Boulevard” as a substitute of the usage of “St.”

Signal the shape in field 17. You should definitely learn the remark proper above field 17 ahead of signing. In case you are not sure who will have to signal the appliance, learn the directions on web page 3 of the appliance. For field 17, there’s a phase titled “WHO CAN SIGN THE APPLICATION?” that outlines who will have to check in sure eventualities.

In field 18, examine the field that describes your dating to the individual soliciting for a card:

• “Self” method you might be soliciting for a card for your self.

• “Herbal Or Adoptive Mother or father” method you might be both a organic dad or mum or a dad or mum who followed the kid soliciting for the cardboard.

• “Criminal Parent” method you’ve got court-ordered custody of the kid soliciting for the cardboard and the authority to fill out the shape at the kid’s behalf^[0]

• “Different Specify” method the opposite 3 choices don’t suit your dating to the kid or individual soliciting for the cardboard. If you select this selection, you want to fill within the clean together with your dating to the individual.

Normally, you’ll fill out the SS-5 shape on-line at the SSA’s site^[0]

Alternatively, if you happen to are living in New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Alaska or a U.S. territory, chances are you’ll wish to post the shape in the course of the mail if you wish to substitute your Social Safety card. That suggests you’ll wish to print out the shape, fill it out and mail it (along side your supporting paperwork) for your nearest Social Safety place of business.

You’ll wish to post the SS-5 shape in individual if you happen to’re converting any of the next knowledge to your Social Safety card or report:

To post your shape in individual:

1. Obtain and fill out the S-55 shape. You’ll fill it out digitally, then print it, or print it first, then fill it out by means of hand.

2. Acquire the specified documentation. All information should be authentic variations or a type of certification, comparable to a signature or raised seal. You’ll’t post photocopies.

3. Find the SSA place of business you need to seek advice from.

4. Name forward to be sure you don’t want an appointment to talk with any person.

4 guidelines for filing Shape SS-5

1. Acquire the guidelines you want ahead of beginning. This will make the method move extra easily. That is very true for info chances are you’ll want from any person else, comparable to your mom’s Social Safety quantity.

2. Learn the directions ahead of filling out a field. If it’s no longer straight away transparent to you what you want to position in a field, take a minute to learn the directions. Should you nonetheless have questions, name your native SSA place of business to invite what knowledge you will have to come with. The time spent clarifying the guidelines can be a lot shorter than time spent redoing the appliance if you happen to fill it out incorrectly.

3. Double-check the guidelines ahead of filing it. Learn in the course of the finished software sparsely and double-check that the entirety is right kind, particularly your touch knowledge. If the SSA has a query, that is how they are going to touch you.

4. Test the mail incessantly. It will possibly take seven to fourteen days to get your Social Safety card within the mail, and it will come anytime in that vary. Test your mail steadily to be sure you get it when it’s delivered; don’t depart it in a mailbox the place it may well be stolen.