How many times are biometrics required?

[wifey246 0]

All in all, how many times does the USCIS need our fingerprint?

If we get approved, or if our I-751 is still pending 90 days before our 3rd year of becoming a LPR, we can apply for citizenship - and they need our fingerprints updated AGAIN? For some of us, that's just months apart! Why???

Edited June 23, 2008 by wifey246

[Jenn! 918]

Good question!

Maybe it has something to do with the $80 fee.

Edited June 23, 2008 by Jenn!

[YuAndDan 153]

N-400 requires another biometrics.

Filing Fee : $595 plus a biometrics fee of $80; the fee total is $675. Applicants 75 years of age or older are not charged a biometric fee; their fee total is $595. No fee is required for military applicants filing under Section 328 and 329 of the INA.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

[wifey246 0]

I guess majority of us are just so grateful to take another step in our journey that we are just happy to cut another check.

Whatever it takes to get to the end of the road, eh?

[YuAndDan 153]

I guess majority of us are just so grateful to take another step in our journey that we are just happy to cut another check.

Whatever it takes to get to the end of the road, eh?

Yep, citizenship is truly the end of it, unless you also add in the cost of a US passport.

[spidergirl 0]

All in all, how many times does the USCIS need our fingerprint?

If we get approved, or if our I-751 is still pending 90 days before our 3rd year of becoming a LPR, we can apply for citizenship - and they need our fingerprints updated AGAIN? For some of us, that's just months apart! Why???

Its because USCIS want to be sure that the person applying for Citizenship is the same person whom they granted a greencard few years or months ago.

[russian_armenian 4]

Biometrics are good only for 18months. I think it is related to file maintanance (they dont have a storage capacity or else; so, fingerprints get delited in 18 months). I think a 3 months prior to this, you should get a second bio. Plus, I think they dont link same persons bio to different applications. So, for N-400 a new set of fingerprnts to make.

All in all, how many times does the USCIS need our fingerprint?

If we get approved, or if our I-751 is still pending 90 days before our 3rd year of becoming a LPR, we can apply for citizenship - and they need our fingerprints updated AGAIN? For some of us, that's just months apart! Why???

[NickD 203]

I think it is related to file maintanance (they dont have a storage capacity or else; so, fingerprints get delited in 18 months). I think a 3 months prior to this, you should get a second bio. Plus, I think they dont link same persons bio to different applications. So, for N-400 a new set of fingerprnts to make.

So how do you explain those that posted here with two or more A-Files, somehow over the years they were issued an alien number, and picked up a second one keeping them from further processing until their files were compiled with the older file being 5-7 years old. This kind of says that our records are not destroyed and we have sent three sets of those same old proofs already.

The 80 bucks is nothing compared to the expense and inconvenience of driving down there, but that is our fault for not buying a home across the street from a field office. In a laughing and joking manner, asks the officer what did they do with the first two sets of finger prints, his response was, I don't know, I just work here.

Only thing we know for sure, if you do not keep your biometrics appointment, your application will be denied, you will lose your fee and the time you waited, and will have to reapply again. In that Discovery Channel FBI Files program, they claim they caught criminals with fingerprints taken some 60 years ago that they still had on file.

Don't try to make sense of it, just do it.

[l.j./1999 1]

I remember seeing someone state in another thread that fingerprints are deleted from the system once the associated application is adjudicated for privacy protection reasons. I'm not sure if that's true, but that explanation makes some sense to me.

[russian_armenian 4]

I dont remember who told me about 18 month- lawyer or immigration officer. I think it was at the interview because I asked why I had to do biometrics twice.

FBI might have a bigger database. They prob keep all crime related prints. But I doubt that this is a case with CIS. So, that is how people had a few A#. I have heard about it. Just never made connection.

But I doubt it will work in future. Soon, even our passports will have our prints.

I think it is related to file maintanance (they dont have a storage capacity or else; so, fingerprints get delited in 18 months). I think a 3 months prior to this, you should get a second bio. Plus, I think they dont link same persons bio to different applications. So, for N-400 a new set of fingerprnts to make.

So how do you explain those that posted here with two or more A-Files, somehow over the years they were issued an alien number, and picked up a second one keeping them from further processing until their files were compiled with the older file being 5-7 years old. This kind of says that our records are not destroyed and we have sent three sets of those same old proofs already.

The 80 bucks is nothing compared to the expense and inconvenience of driving down there, but that is our fault for not buying a home across the street from a field office. In a laughing and joking manner, asks the officer what did they do with the first two sets of finger prints, his response was, I don't know, I just work here.

Only thing we know for sure, if you do not keep your biometrics appointment, your application will be denied, you will lose your fee and the time you waited, and will have to reapply again. In that Discovery Channel FBI Files program, they claim they caught criminals with fingerprints taken some 60 years ago that they still had on file.

Don't try to make sense of it, just do it.

[wifey246 0]

I can be very persistent if I'm really curious about something

The answer is : minimum 4 times, and there's no maximum , according to this article that i found in another forum : http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05180/530331.stm

very interesting piece although it is 3 years old. I wish the writer publishes an update soon.

[russian_armenian 4]

Woh, great link. Thanks wifey246.

So, it is 15 months. I always had a bad memory on numbers.

I can be very persistent if I'm really curious about something

The answer is : minimum 4 times, and there's no maximum , according to this article that i found in another forum : http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05180/530331.stm

very interesting piece although it is 3 years old. I wish the writer publishes an update soon.

[coloradogirl 0]

Woh, great link. Thanks wifey246.

So, it is 15 months. I always had a bad memory on numbers.

I can be very persistent if I'm really curious about something

The answer is : minimum 4 times, and there's no maximum , according to this article that i found in another forum : http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05180/530331.stm

very interesting piece although it is 3 years old. I wish the writer publishes an update soon.

Yep, apparently minimum 4 times is correct. Hubby did indeed have biometrics 4 times since 2004, this last time for naturalization. So I guess he's done! yay!!!!!

[NickD 203]

Woh, great link. Thanks wifey246.

So, it is 15 months. I always had a bad memory on numbers.

I can be very persistent if I'm really curious about something

The answer is : minimum 4 times, and there's no maximum , according to this article that i found in another forum : http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05180/530331.stm

very interesting piece although it is 3 years old. I wish the writer publishes an update soon.

Yep, apparently minimum 4 times is correct. Hubby did indeed have biometrics 4 times since 2004, this last time for naturalization. So I guess he's done! yay!!!!!

First for the I-485, second for the I-751, and third for the N-400, so what is the forth for?

[bhajishah 4]

Marriage fraud and to see if its still the same old you!!