Editing Getting a Social Security Card (section)

=== Replacing A Card ===

You have to go to an SSA office, preferably one locally in order to replace a card. If you report within 2 weeks of a delivery deadline to ask for a replacement you can apparently get the same one reissued as a delivery-failed which ''does not count towards your 3 cards a year''. We were ignorant of this and consequently by the time we took it seriously we were at Try 3 for the year - our final shot at it.

Much of this process is intended for an adult so it makes it quite hard. [https://www.ssa.gov/faqs/en/questions/KA-02723.html The requirements often are hard to hit for one's child]. However, what is useful is that an American passport only needs you to prove that your child was born to you and that she's American. This was much easier for us to do and we were able to apply at a USPS facility locally for the passport and receive it within a few weeks.