Process used to apply for driver's license without Social Security Number:
1. Go to the Social Security Office with your passport, I-94 and Current properly endorsed 1-20 Form
2. Tell the Social Security Office that you are not eligible for a Social Security Number because you are not working
3. Ask the Social Security Office to issue you a letter indicating that you are not eligible for a Social Security Number
4. With this letter from Social Security, go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and present the letter from the Social Security Office
5. The Department of Motor Vehicles should issue you a number that should allow you to follow the process to apply for a drivers License
Department of Motor Vehicles
Rath Building
170 Pearl Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 858-7450
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