Dear Larry. I lived and worked in the US for 22 years paying taxes and Social Security. I was never able to legalize my status. In 2004 I came back to my country (Chile) after I lost all appeals to become a legal citizen. I started my retirement in January of this year through the offices of the SSA in Argentina. Everything was going well until I was sent an email communicating that I need to check my status with Home Land Security in the US before I could proceed. Would you please help me find the right offices that I need to contact in the US and how? All my searches made from here have been unsuccessful.
Thank you very much.

Hi,

I'm sorry, but I'm simply not sure what you need to do. I've never heard of Social Security making any kind of official communications by email, so if that's what you received I would first suggest that you make sure the email is legitimate. I don't know if the Department of Homeland Security ever communicates by email, but if the email if from them then I would assume that it should have some type of contact information.

I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but Social Security provides the following website with instructions for how to get in touch with them when you're outside the U.S.: https://www.ssa.gov/foreign/index.html. I'm not familiar with the Department of Homeland Security, but they also have a website with contact information: https://www.dhs.gov/contact-us

Best, Jerry