Sunday, June 14, 2009

Fingerprinting

Well, it's been 15 months since our last fingerprinting and, since our fingerprints have "expired", we had to get printed again.

I can understand asking for a couple or three hundred dollars to re-run our prints, but reprinting? I didn't get new fingerprints for Christmas, so why do I need to be reprinted, at the tune of almost $1,000?

I am happy to say that the USCIS (United States Citizenship & Immigration Services) ASC (Application Support Center) moved from the nasty building in Hempstead to a nice new facility in Hicksville. The people were all the same, which was nice, since they were pretty good the first go-round.

Tom's printing went without issue; my mom was there for about 15 minutes while they tried to find her prints (we'll probably have to go back, like we did last time, then do the affidavit). The prints on my right hand went fine, but apparently my left hand has really bad prints. I was there about 10 minutes.

Time will tell if we have to go back.