Well, I find myself in a bit of a pickle.
I live in Japan. I have two children. My wife is Japanese. We collected all of their information after we did a Report of Birth in Japan. We got them Passports and SSNs.
Well Covid hit and things shut down, including the Embassy which ran on a skeleton crew. Long story short, when sifting through the children’s legal documents because we were planning on traveling abroad in the next year or two, I noticed I couldn’t find my youngest’s SSC anywhere. I turned the house on its head and couldn’t find it. Also, his Passport is expired.
Well, now I need that SSN for a new passport, but I need a passport for the SSN. What should I do to remedy this issue? I called the Embassy, but they said I needed to fill out an Emergency Passport and then use that to get the SSN, but that requires a SSN as well. Help?
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Hrm. Well, this list includes using a passport, but not exclusively. Don’t know if it’ll help.
[https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10514.pdf](https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10514.pdf)
Check all your other records for places you may have used his SSN. Did you include your children on your tax returns/filings?
I’m sure you’ll work it out, definitely a pain in the neck though. Did you ever scan the SS cards and save them in Drive or DropBox or something similar? Scan everything important and put in a couple different places for redundancy in case of fire, theft, etc. in the future.
Dropping this here for future you: [https://1password.com](https://1password.com)