I don’t know what this girl’s older siblings did. But... it looks as if she has options:
For one thing, she doesn’t need a driver’s license to go to college and qualify for in-state tuition and aid in Texas.
And, if she doesn’t need to drive right now, then without the SSN, she could be issued a Texas non-driver’s photo ID:
http://world.utexas.edu/io/forms/isss/drivers_license.pdf
At least for now, until she sorts everything else out...
If she wants a driver’s license, it appears that, in Texas, if you’ve never been issued an SSN, you can go to any driver’s license office and file an affidavit attesting that you never received an SSN:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/ssn.htm
Did that court order for a family name change include her? If so, then she could show identity using her college records together with that court order for a name change:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/identificationrequirements.htm
In any case, the Daily Mail reported that she’s now saying her parents are helping her. So, she’ll be fine.
But, it’s interesting to figure out what other people would do if they were in the same situation.
Info below, in reply to your post #120 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3256692/posts?page=120#120
Student aid
TASFA form instructions at that link is for foreign born residents.
The worksheet at that link wants the Texas State ID card #.
Info for your post #125, fist link, about the non-driver ID
The requirements for a Texas non-driver photo ID are passport, I-20 or DS-2019, Form I-94 and current enrollment letter.
The 3 forms other than passport are for foreign students. Not sure what the enrollment letter requires.
No SSN needed though.
She might try the passport route; there are secondary and third level docs they will consider...
a lot of those need to be early childhood type docs and her best bet is gather what she has and all her elders (grandparents, aunt & uncle) go in person to file paperwork.
Let me dig in the passport rule page to see if she’s got any of the secondary/third level docs.
She already tried the D/L and was denied; not sure if they tried the ‘no SSN’ affidavit.
Name change is interesting; Alecia only has notarized name change (for herself only), not court order...
J Grace, her oldest sibling claimed that is what she (Grace) used to start the ball rolling on her documentation quest.