Additionally, because the Social Security Administration only issues an SSN if you are eligible to pay into and eventually receive Social Security, there are so

Additionally, because the Social Security Administration only issues an SSN if you are eligible to pay into and eventually receive Social Security, there are some legal temporary residents of the US that are not eligible and do not get an SSN. While the government says that an SSN is not necessary to open a bank or credit card account, all the ones that I’ve encountered require it to proceed with the application, and the government doesn’t do any enforcement of that.