This was what I did, anyway, more than once, and it always worked. With my new license in hand, I took myself over to the Social Security office in downtown Las Vegas to get a "replacement" Social Security card, using my Eric Weiss birth certificate and my driver’s license as my two forms of ID. It was a little worrisome: there were signs all over the place about how it was a crime to obtain a Social Security card using a false identity. One poster even showed a man in handcuffs. Great .