Enumeration Beyond Entry program: Difference between revisions

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According to the same letter, DHS collects information during the USCIS

application process (Form I-765) and electronically transmits it to the SSA, thus eliminating the need for

applicants to file a separate SS-5 application at an SSA field office.

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or if it was added in a later expansion.

== Related Programs ==

The EBE program is very similar in concept to the Enumeration At Entry (EAE) program.<ref>

{{citation |url=https://www.ssa.gov/faqs/en/questions/KA-10040.html |title=What is Enumeration at Entry and how does it work?}}</ref> Under the EAE program, any lawful permanent resident can simultaneously apply for both an immigration

visa and a Social Security number using Form DS-230 or Form DS-260. As with the EBE program, the DHS will

transmit the information to the SSA for automatic issuance of a Social Security number.

The primary difference

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admitted to the United States (thus "at entry"), whereas EBE is targeted towards those who are already in the US ("beyond entry").

EAE started as a pilot program in 2002 under Republican president [[George W. Bush]], and was expanded worldwide

in 2003.<ref>{{citation |title=The Story of the Social Security Number |url=https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html}}</ref>

== History of Social Security Numbers for Non-Citizens ==

The legal basis for issuing Social Security numbers to non-citizens existed long before the EAE and EBE programs were established.

These programs merely made the process more efficient by eliminating the need for extraneous applications.

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These changes were codified in Public Law 92-603.<ref>{{citation |title=Public Law 92-603 Full Text |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-86/pdf/STATUTE-86-Pg1329.pdf}}</ref> The relevant section reads:

<blockquote>Sec, 137. Section 205 (c)(2) of the Social Security Act is amended—

(1) by inserting "(A) " immediately after "(2)" ; and

(2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subparagraph:

"(B)(i) In carrying out his duties under subparagraph (A), the

Secretary shall take affirmative measures to assure that social security

account numbers will, to the maximum extent practicable, be assigned

to all members of appropriate groups or categories of individuals

by assigning such numbers (or ascertaining that such numbers have

already been assigned):

"(I) to aliens at the time of their lawful admission to the

United States either for permanent residence or under other

authority of law permitting them to engage in employment in

the United States and to other aliens at such time as their status

is so changed as to make it lawful for them to engage in such

employment;

"(II) to any individual who is an applicant for or recipient

of benefits under any program financed in whole or in part from

Federal funds including any child on whose behalf such benefits

are claimed by another person; and

... remainder of text omitted ...</blockquote>

The law provides for issuance of Social Security numbers either at entry ("at the time of their lawful admission")

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Federal Regulation 422.104,<ref>{{citation |title=Code of Federal Regulations 422.104 |url=https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/422/422-0104.htm}}</ref> also available on the SSA web site.

== Media attention ==

The EBE program came to wider public attention in March 2025, when [[Elon Musk]] and [[Antonio Gracias]],

speaking at a town hall rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on March 30, 2025,<ref>{{cite web