They are issued at birth now - It has’t always been that way.
I don’t think mine was issued until I was 10 or 11.
Maybe he had a part time 3 card monte gig in Hartford while he was allegedly at Columbia.
Where is everyone getting this idea that these numbers are “issued at birth?” I had to present my children’s birth certificates in order to obtain them, in a rather riduculous procedure. All of this was in the past ten years. What am I missing? Oh, wait, I am white, maybe that’s it?