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From: mgv@duke.UUCP (Marco G. Valtorta)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: RE: S.S. # for non-citizens
Message-ID: <5815@duke.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-May-85 20:09:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  4 20:09:31 1985
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I don't know whether this is typical, but at Duke University
*all* foreign students are invited to apply for a Social
Security Number at the beginning of their first academic year.
A Social Security official comes to a University Office
(actually, a large classroom) and obtains personal data from
the foreign students.  I don't remember whether the cards
are immediately handed out, or whether they are mailed.

I had never thought that having a Social Security number 
had anything to do with authorization to work in the
U.S.A.  In fact, I (and many other foreign students) cannot
work during the Academic Year, unless we are paid through
the University.