Biometrics and Application Support Centers

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After reading some topics on the same subject here, it seems when you get your biometrics appointment letter, that you are told where to get them done. I found this on the fingerprinting page at USCIS

To make fingerprinting more convenient for our customers, USCIS has opened 84 freestanding fingerprint sites (ASCs) and 46 sites located in existing USCIS offices. USCIS now employs a system where fingerprints are taken and submitted electronically to the FBI. By using electronic fingerprint technology, USCIS has significantly reduced processing times for criminal background checks.

At the bottom of that page, there are some links, but they don't work yet so the page is obviously not finished. My local USCIS office is in San Antonio, which is a 4 hr drive!

The wife works with a former border patrol employee. At my local regional airport, there is an immigration and customs office. He told my wife that he used to have to do FBI fingerprints a lot of the time.

My question is, would it be feasible that this location might be one of the ASCs? Will USCIS automatically assign me an appointment in San Antonio? And could I get that changed if it is?

Okay, found out my local ASC is Lubbock, which isn't as bad a drive as SA, but could I still get it changed?

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After reading some topics on the same subject here, it seems when you get your biometrics appointment letter, that you are told where to get them done. I found this on the fingerprinting page at USCIS

To make fingerprinting more convenient for our customers, USCIS has opened 84 freestanding fingerprint sites (ASCs) and 46 sites located in existing USCIS offices. USCIS now employs a system where fingerprints are taken and submitted electronically to the FBI. By using electronic fingerprint technology, USCIS has significantly reduced processing times for criminal background checks.

At the bottom of that page, there are some links, but they don't work yet so the page is obviously not finished. My local USCIS office is in San Antonio, which is a 4 hr drive!

The wife works with a former border patrol employee. At my local regional airport, there is an immigration and customs office. He told my wife that he used to have to do FBI fingerprints a lot of the time.

My question is, would it be feasible that this location might be one of the ASCs? Will USCIS automatically assign me an appointment in San Antonio? And could I get that changed if it is?

Okay, found out my local ASC is Lubbock, which isn't as bad a drive as SA, but could I still get it changed?

No, biometrics appointment is more than just fingerprints and your regional airport would not know where to transmit the electronic information to the USCIS

Edited July 14, 2008 by fwaguy