Early Biometrics - Do I need to let VSC/ESC know?

[to3033 0]

Filed my 751 mid June. Received my Biometrics appointment for 7/27. I couldn't make that, so I wrote a letter requesting a rescheduling. Had not heard back, so today I decided to take a trip to my local ASC and see if they would be nice enough to do my biometrics for me. They did.

So, now I have completed my biometrics 4 days before I was scheduled to, and there is a pending rescheduling appointment request (that was carbon copied to VSC). The people at the ASC told me to ignore the new appointment letter, and also said that I didn't need to inform Vermont about the fact that I completed Biometrics.

Should I just go ahead and send a letter to Vermont letting them know of the completed biometrics?

Thanks.

Edited July 23, 2010 by to3033

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Filed my 751 mid June. Received my Biometrics appointment for 7/27. I couldn't make that, so I wrote a letter requesting a rescheduling. Had not heard back, so today I decided to take a trip to my local ASC and see if they would be nice enough to do my biometrics for me. They did.

So, now I have completed my biometrics 4 days before I was scheduled to, and there is a pending rescheduling appointment request (that was carbon copied to VSC). The people at the ASC told me to ignore the new appointment letter, and also said that I didn't need to inform Vermont about the fact that I completed Biometrics.

Should I just go ahead and send a letter to Vermont letting them know of the completed biometrics?

Thanks.

No - as long as you have proof that you have done your biometrics (which they stamp on the back of your letter), then you should be just fine. All it is when the FBI receive the request from USCIS to run a check on you, if they can't find new biometrics taken, they will send back USCIS a note saying no bios, and that's when USCIS will consider your application abandoned. Therefore, when they check for your bios, they will be recent and they will process them.

Sometimes getting USCIS involved in unusual steps (as you are suggesting) could severely complicate things for you.....

This is my personal opinion..... if you do, by the way, get a notice for biometrics (since you requested a new one), just make sure that it has the same receipt number, which points to the same application.

[to3033 0]

No - as long as you have proof that you have done your biometrics (which they stamp on the back of your letter), then you should be just fine. All it is when the FBI receive the request from USCIS to run a check on you, if they can't find new biometrics taken, they will send back USCIS a note saying no bios, and that's when USCIS will consider your application abandoned. Therefore, when they check for your bios, they will be recent and they will process them.

Sometimes getting USCIS involved in unusual steps (as you are suggesting) could severely complicate things for you.....

This is my personal opinion..... if you do, by the way, get a notice for biometrics (since you requested a new one), just make sure that it has the same receipt number, which points to the same application.

Thanks for your info and opinion. I mailed them a letter and a photocopy of the stamped photocopy of my ASC notice. I figure it's better that they know what's going on and I weighed the odds of complicating things by non-action versus sending them an explanatory letter.