Onboarding: Getting Started at SLCC

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Once you have been offered the position at SLCC ask your supervisor for a printed copy of an offer letter from your new position. This should include your planned hire date, supervisor, and position title.

Visit SLCC International Student Services. Bring your offer letter and ask for an On Campus Employment Authorization Letter. This will be necessary to receive a Social Security Card from the Social Security Administration. International Student Services will prepare a letter to the SSA verifying your status as a full-time international student on an F-1 visa.

• If you do not have a social security number, both the hiring department and International Student Services will provide letters you can take to the Social Security Administration (SSA) to support your application for a Social Security Card.
• Make an appointment by calling one of the SSA offices:
  • Salt Lake Social Security Administration Office
    175 East 400 South, Suite 500q
    Salt Lake City, Utah
    (866)690-1947
  • South Jordan SSA Office
    10138 South Jordan GTWY
    South Jordan, Utah
    (866)690-1947
    
    SSA Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
    These offices close at 12:00 pm on Wednesdays.
    
    Reminder: If this is your first time in the United States on an F-1 student visa, you must wait 10-14 days after arrival in the U.S. before applying for a Social Security Number. The Social Security Administration cannot access your information until your SEVIS* record is updated.

• Bring both letters from ISS and the hiring department, your passport, visa, most recent I-94, and your Continued Attendance I-20 to the Social Security Administration Office to apply for a social security number. Make sure you ask for a receipt letter from the SSA.
• Please note that it will take approximately 3 weeks to receive your new Social Security Card.
• Please provide a copy of your receipt letter from the SSA to HR until your social security card arrives (see step 5).
• Please submit your social security card to the Payroll Office as soon as possible to ensure that your earnings are reported correctly to the Internal Revenue Service as required by law.

* - The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is the Web-based system that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to maintain information on Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). SEVIS Issues I-20 Forms to specific nonimmigrants to obtain F or M status while enrolled at the school and to transfer the student SEVIS records to other institutions. Your Information may be updated at the SLCC International Student Services, Taylorsville Redwood Campus, Student Center, Room 232. (SEVIS Advising FAQ | SLCC)

Complete a hiring packet with the hiring department, including the receipt letter from the SSA.

The Hiring Packet Includes:

• Official SLCC Application signed and dated
• I-9 completed correctly, showing F-1 status
  • Access Employee Records Onboarding System. Please complete I-9 form Section 1. Section 2 will be completed during your I-9 appointment.
• W-4 tax form
  • Found in Employee Records, Step 4 must include “NRA” (Non-Resident Alien).
• Copy of Receipt from SSA
  • To receive a Social Security Card, please see step 2.
• Direct Deposit Authorization Form
  • Found in Employee Records. Please fill out the Direct Deposit Authorization Form and the back-up information regarding your bank and account.
  Prepare Bank Provided document to receive pay to your bank account:
  Bank provided document that shows an account number and routing number to set up Direct Deposit, either one document:
  1. Voided check
  2. Direct Deposit Authorization Form (from your bank’s website)
  3. Direct Deposit Letter (from your bank’s office)
• Copy of letter from International Student Services
• Copy of Social Security Card (within 30 days of hiring)
  • You will need to book a second I-9 appointment to bring your Social Security Card as soon as you receive it.

Book your in-person I-9 Verification Appointment at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus to show your original forms of documents that establish both identity and employment authorization to the Onboarding or Human Resources before or on your hire date.

You can look for your hire date on your offer letter, welcome email from onboarding@slcc.edu or ask your supervisor.

Required Documents to bring to the I-9 Verification appointment:

1. I-20 form (Certificate of Eligibility)
2. I-94 form (DHS Arrival Record)
   • Click "Get most recent I-94"
   • Onboarding team can help to download and print this form at your I-9 appointment
3. Foreign Passport
4. Receipt from Social Security Administration or Social Security Card if already received
   • If you don’t have a receipt from SSA yet, please bring 3 required documents mentioned above. You need to book a second appointment to bring your Social Security Card when you receive it, so that we update your I-9 form, W-4 (tax) form with your SSN, upload an image of SSC to the Social Security Card Request form and update the Employee Info Sheet in Employee Records.

Follow steps in SLCC’s new employee Onboarding website to guide you through before you get started, first day, week, month, and year of employment at Salt Lake Community College.

The Onboarding team will be available to answer any questions you may have and provide the help you need as a new employee after watching a New Employee Orientation: Bruin Beginnings recording.