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May 27, 2015 08:40
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English term

AAA-GG-SSSS FC mm-dd-yyyy

Non-PRO English Other Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs Academic certificate
I am translating a transcript from a US university and next to the date of birth of the student, there is a social security number (AAA-GG-SSSS), the code 'FC' and a date.

Can somebody explain what the 'FC' and the date refer to?

The residence status is 'resident' and the student was not born in the United States.
Responses
4 area-group-serial
5 month (2 digits) day (2 digits) year (4 digits)
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Discussion

Jean-Claude Gouin May 28, 2015:
@ Charles & Alma ... I was wrong and Charles is right. The U.S. SSN has 9 digits, not 10.
In Canada, it's called SIN (Social Insurance Number) and also has 9 digits.
Alma Martín (X) (asker) May 28, 2015:
Foreign Citizen is a possibility, although I have found a couple of references that mention 'Foreign Country', so I think I will settle for that:

"FLORIDA FL, FOREIGN COUNTRY FC, GEORGIA GA"
https://www.fsadownload.ed.gov/Repository/XMLISIR0405Nov/200...

"3 PLACE OF BIRTH - State or Foreign Country"
http://www.ssa.gov/forms/ss-5fs.pdf

As for the date, I've been thinking it could just be the issuing date of the certificate.

Thanks everyone for your replies!
Tina Vonhof (X) May 28, 2015:
FC Could it mean 'foreign citizen'?
Charles Davis May 27, 2015:
"In the United States, a Social Security number (SSN) is a nine-digit number issued to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number

AAA-GG-SSSS corresponds to nine digits.
Jean-Claude Gouin May 27, 2015:
@ Alma 1. The Social Security Number in the U.S. has 10 digits;
so AAA-GG-AAA is not a SSN.

2. In the U.S., mm-dd-yyyy means month, day and year; elsewhere
in the world, people use the international notation: YYYY-MM-DD;
the Americans use 05-11-2015 ... meaning May 11, 2015 ... but
in French, it means November 5, 2015. Also, some use a more
precise notation: 2015-05-27-16:58 ...
Alma Martín (X) (asker) May 27, 2015:
Sheri, it is a recent date: 05-11-15. The admission date to the university is also in the document, so it can't be that.

Allegro Trans and zebung are probably right and FC does not need to be translated, but I thought it was better to ask just to be sure.
pike May 27, 2015:
foreign country/citizen + birth date might... ...make sense - up until recently, the equivalent of SSN in Croatia (and other countries that used to be Yugoslavia) was JMBG (citizen's unique registry number) and it consisted of birthdate (dd-mm-yyy) + xxy-xxx (y was 0 for male or 5 for female, not sure about x).
Sheri P May 27, 2015:
No idea, either, but... I've never seen or heard of a 'code' being added to a SS number. Maybe it would generate some ideas if we knew something about the date. For example, is it a recent date, or is it a date close to the student's birth date?
Charles Davis May 27, 2015:
FC It can stand for Foster Care, but I've no idea whether this is relevant.
zebung May 27, 2015:
Agree with AllegroTrans

But just for fun, could FC mean "Foreign Country"? No idea, just a guess.
AllegroTrans May 27, 2015:
Whatever this means... I see no need to "translate" it - seems to be simply a code added to the social security number

Responses

3 hrs
Selected

area-group-serial

A Social Security Number (SSN) consists of nine digits, commonly written as
three fields separated by hyphens: AAA-GG-SSSS. The first three-digit field
is called the "area number". The central, two-digit field is called the
"group number". The final, four-digit field is called the "serial number". Not sure what FC stands for though...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2015-05-27 12:09:49 GMT)
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PS
...FC for Foreign Country... mostly a wild guess.
Reference:

https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/ID_SSN_fingerprinting/ssn_structure.article

Peer comment(s):
neutral Charles Davis : But FC is the part the asker wants to know.
34 mins
yes, noticed after posting, foreign country would make sense considering the context/remarks made by poster.
neutral writeaway : ps. have a guess at foreign citizen
57 mins
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5 hrs
English term (edited): mm-dd-yyyy

month (2 digits) day (2 digits) year (4 digits)

month (2 digits) day (2 digits) year (4 digits)
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