[kabar]

Here is an IRS release on who can get an SSN, including a foreign student:

Social Security/Medicare and Self-Employment Tax Liability of Foreign Students, Scholars, Teachers, Researchers, and Trainees

What is interesting is that some foreign students are exempt from paying SS and Medicare taxes on their earnings. It would be interesting to look at Obama's tax returns when he received his advance.

Here is guidance from the University of Washington

Here is SSA guidance on SSNs for non-citizens

[Fantasywriter]

So the upshot of your info is that Obama may not have used a special foreign national type SS#? Agree w you re: his tax returns from ‘91—they wd be interesting to say the least.