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All for the SSN...

Getting the Social Security number is the foremost important thing here. We went to the nearest SS Centre, within a week of my arrival in the USA, but the lady over their said our marriage certificate is a must. Instead she gave a letter, which could be used to get me a learners licence for driving. Then came the task of getting this marriage certificate from Bangalore India. Luckily, finding it and courier ing it was not an issue. Once again we visited this office and after a wait of good long 40 minutes, we were called. At the counter, this lady did not really know, how to go about, so she went in and took another lady's help and started filling up the data online with the instructions from the other. She took a while to do this and finally she said it was done and we should receive it within 2 weeks of time. I got this delivered just within 4 days and then was time to get the ITIN number, which is equivalent to PAN number of India. 15 th April being the last day, we decided t