Husband (i-130 peitioner) received biometrics appointment for himself (is it normal?)

[C0881 2]

2 weeks ago we received a cancellation notice from USCIS for my AOS interview on 17th Dec. Today we received an I797C biometrics appointment notice in the mail addressed to my husband, who is the petitioner and US citizen. According to my understanding, biometrics of the beneficiary (me) is required for AOS applications because $80 biometrics fee is included in the filing fee. But I have not heard that the US citizen petitioner has to do biometrics as well. But my husband is an AWA peititioner therefore I am not sure if this has something to do with it. We submitted all paperwork through our immigration lawyer and the paperwork includes everything USCIS needs for AWA cases. So far we have not received any RFE. If any of you have had experience of petitioner doing biometrics, please share your thoughts on this? Thank you .. I am worried..

[Chica Yeyé 41]

What does your lawyer tell you about this?

[C0881 2]

We left a voice message to his phone immediately after we read the notice. I thought of calling the national hotline, but those customer service people usually don't know much what is going on and their standard answers are some scripts they read out from the screen. My husband decided to go to appointment on Jan 4th anyway.

What does your lawyer tell you about this?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Perhaps it was a clerical error. I think you both should go together.

Any chances you could make an Infopass appointmkent for next week?

[Mononoke28 135]

You can (should) still call the USCIS in the meantime to find out why he got the biometrics letter and not you. They should at least be able to answer that.

Diana

[CanTex 1]

AWA Petitioners are scheduled (paid by US Government) for biometrics. Just their way of updating their

records with FBI and other organizations that need the fingerprint information for their records. It is their

SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) now.

[A and T 82]

AWA Petitioners are scheduled (paid by US Government) for biometrics. Just their way of updating their

records with FBI and other organizations that need the fingerprint information for their records. It is their

SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) now.

When I submitted my I-130 a few months later I had to do Biometrics, so far its my understanding that it is standard procedure. I see a few others have as well. I went to New Orleans and did mine, quite a long drive for me, but they treated me very well, I brought my I797C paper and my passport/ID

Once you are done, they stamp your paper (make sure to keep this with you!)

You need the offical paper, passport and ID , I got mine stamped, they told me the process contiunes from there.

[C0881 2]

Hi all thanks for your feedback and sharing. I now feel better that it's a procedure for AWA petitioners...My husband would go to the appointment on 4th Jan then. For me I already did mine on 23rd Oct and received EAD and SSN in November. My timeline is so long that it won't fit into the space provided by the Signature. Therefore I put it in the profile section. Apologies for the confusion.

The sudden cancellation of the interview and the biometrics notice for my husband just scared me a lot. We submitted paperwork I-485, I-130, I-765 in September and it's not until after 3 months that they finally arrange for my husband's (petitioner) biometrics to be done. It's gonna be a long AOS journey for me!

[music678 0]

Hi all thanks for your feedback and sharing. I now feel better that it's a procedure for AWA petitioners...My husband would go to the appointment on 4th Jan then. For me I already did mine on 23rd Oct and received EAD and SSN in November. My timeline is so long that it won't fit into the space provided by the Signature. Therefore I put it in the profile section. Apologies for the confusion.

The sudden cancellation of the interview and the biometrics notice for my husband just scared me a lot. We submitted paperwork I-485, I-130, I-765 in September and it's not until after 3 months that they finally arrange for my husband's (petitioner) biometrics to be done. It's gonna be a long AOS journey for me!

Hello cls0881,

I just registered in this site just now and I am still pretty new. Anyways, We have the same situation and almost at the same time too. You had your biometrics in october and mine too. You had an inetrview date on december 17 and mine too. You received a cancellation letter and then I-130 biometrics and same here. You said your husband's biometrics was january 4 which is yesterday, how was it? what did they do? did they ask them something or anything? My husband will have his biometrics on january 8 and the lawyer that I asked said that it may be an error so she recommend to get an infopass appoinment which I think I won't do coz of the very tight schedule. My husband is also an AWA petitioner. Please let me know. Thanks.

[C0881 2]

Music678, my husband went to the biometrics appointment on 4th Jan. They took his fingerprints but did not take pictures of him. When I did my biometrics, they took 1 picture of me. We did not schedule info pass because our lawyer said he already talked to customer service on the phone and that the cancellation notice is valid.

Hello cls0881,

I just registered in this site just now and I am still pretty new. Anyways, We have the same situation and almost at the same time too. You had your biometrics in october and mine too. You had an inetrview date on december 17 and mine too. You received a cancellation letter and then I-130 biometrics and same here. You said your husband's biometrics was january 4 which is yesterday, how was it? what did they do? did they ask them something or anything? My husband will have his biometrics on january 8 and the lawyer that I asked said that it may be an error so she recommend to get an infopass appoinment which I think I won't do coz of the very tight schedule. My husband is also an AWA petitioner. Please let me know. Thanks.

[GC1981 0]

So both petitioner and beneficiary have to go for Biometrics? This is confusing. I though only beneficiary has to go for biometrics.

[A and T 82]

Petitioner only does if they have an AWA hit i think

[TBoneTX 45,284]

You're answering a 3.5-year-old thread. In such instances, it's better to start a new thread of your own.