biometrics needed?

[psoord 0]

hi all .. so a quick question about fingerprints , i have been a perm resident alien since 1977 i was 13 at the time my family moved here at 18 ii had my fingerpints taken and when i joined the us armyh, would they request another set from me ? i have received my ROA letter so curious to what the next step will be

thank you all

[Hypnos 6,576]

Yes.

[mozplay 28]

You could have just had them literally taken yesterday and they will still request them each and every single time. I don't think USCIS believes in grey areas, lol.

[FlipgalRN 19]

hi all .. so a quick question about fingerprints , i have been a perm resident alien since 1977 i was 13 at the time my family moved here at 18 ii had my fingerpints taken and when i joined the us armyh, would they request another set from me ? i have received my ROA letter so curious to what the next step will be

thank you all

Yes you will be asked to get fingerprinted again.

[NickD 202]

"bi·o·met·rics (bº”½-mµt“r¹ks) n. (used with a sing. verb). The statistical study of biological phenomena. --bi”o·met“ric or bi”o·met“ri·cal adj. --bi”o·met“ri·cal·ly adv."

USCIS definition of biometrics is a photo and fingerprints. Since I scanned all of my wife's cards, had a different photo on her visa to come here, EAD card, conditional green card, ten year card, and US citizen certificate. That adds up to five "biometrics" in about a four year period. Not counting her visa, that was done at a US consulate, was four 450 mile round trips for the ones that involved the USCIS.

Did read a senate report, about Emilio being question why he was charging 80 bucks just to store recent biometrics for 15 months, replied, it cost that much to store and retrieve them. Did question why, when less than a year we still had to make that long trip, as short as ten months apart. Reply was, don't ask me, I just work here. Her appearance certainly didn't change in that period, and certainly her fingerprints didn't. FBI brags about cases where they solved with 80 year old fingerprints. But for us, was four long trips just for my wife!

Stepdaughter got to tag along, a couple of times had to beg the USCIS to take her, they did, because she was schedule like a week later. But just had to turn 18 before her mom was naturalized that resulted in a fifth trip. For the first three, was an extra 160 bucks for each trip, than two more at 80 bucks each.

So for biometrics was a total of 2,250 miles of driving and $640.00 in fees just for the same old photos and fingerprints. Neither like their photos, only take one, at times we had to leave at 2:00 AM in the morning, so they didn't look their best after that long ride.

But if you want to stay here, have to do that. Not even sure why we had to provide two photos for citizenship, never used them anyway.