My wife is from lebanon. We're in the process of getting her papers now. We tried to get her a fishing liscense but they said she has to have a social security number. My question is does she need a liscense and how would she get it sense you need a ss#? I called tpwd but they were closed already. Thanks!!

I would go to the TPWD office with her and her passport and ask what they can do.

Where did you go? I think all you have to have is a driver's license, but I do not know for sure.

The Feds want the SSN to try to catch dead beat parents. TPWD doesn't need it but they can't sell you a licence without a SSN because of the federal requirement.

So if she does need a ssn. Can she just not legally fish you think? Im sure tpwd can do something

Call you local GW and see what he suggests

Don't people from other countries come here to fish? They don't have ss nums.

I'm pretty sure at walmart they just asked me for my Driver's license.

All I have ever been asked for is my drivers license at Academy or walmart

You should ask the gar godfather aka duckhuntr35 aka Mr Kirk Kirkland. He deals with more than a few international clients.

We just had to fill out an affidavit, we went to the garland office and had no problems getting it

You have to have a ssn to get a drivers license. Divers license to get a hunting license.

I ran into this this year with a guest from Costa Rica that wanted to go fishing. We went to Academy and the girl running the computer could not get it to submit without the SS# and didn't know what to do. We took our attempted receipt with us fishing in case we got stopped to at least show a best effort. But I was later told that we should tell the cashier to just enter their passport number into the ss field and it should work.

hth,
Scott

This is why. alot of dead beat dads like to fish. and that's how they catch them.

I was in the TPWD Law Enforcement Office here in Houston just the other day. They had a NEW sign on the door that stated you must now furnish a SSN for licenses, registration, title transfers, etc.

I'm sure there are extenuating circumstances where appearing in person will get the person a fishing license, hence the affidavit ya'll signed in the Garland LE Office.