How to check if your fingerprints are good

[goodboy 1]

hi guys,

i was lookin in the inetrnet last night,i found this number you call and talk to FBI agent live.

You need to call in (304) 625-2000, and you'll be connected with a live FBI agent . They will ask your alien # and can tell you on the spot if your fingerprints were good and if they had been sent to USCIS.

btw i did called last night at 2am in the morning, and i talked to the agent and he said i should call back monday thru friday between 8am to 4pm, and then they will tell me.

i wish that will help you guys, and no harm if you try.

good luck to everyone

[ThaitoUSA 15]

For more information you can read here:

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/iafis/iafis

However, there is nothing to indicate that this branch of the FBI responds to personal requests by immigrants. It does on the page that it is there to work with law enforcement agencies at different levels of jurisdiction. Not sure if I want thousands of folks calling them just to ask if their fingerprints went through alright. I am sure USCIS would let you know.

[Drogs 24]

You get another Biometrics appt if your fingerprints are not good enough. no need for anyone to call the FBI and wasting time that could be better used checking the prints they have been sent.

Edited September 19, 2011 by Drogs

[Darnell 8,478]

how to tell if your fingerprints were good enough?

Whilst yer at the ASC, getting it done, you turn around and ASK the human that did the work, immediately (within 20 seconds) afterwards.

[Hell0W0rld 10]

how to tell if your fingerprints were good enough?

Whilst yer at the ASC, getting it done, you turn around and ASK the human that did the work, immediately (within 20 seconds) afterwards.

Agreed.. If ASC accepts the prints, why would you need to double check by calling the FBI?

[goodboy 1]

i called this #(304) 625-2000 this morning, they told me that they received my biometric and they sent em out to the uscis, they asked me for two things, my alien# and my full name, hopefully we will hear from the uscis soon.

good luck to you guys

Edited September 19, 2011 by goodboy

[Drogs 24]

Just What are you expecting to hear from USCIS???????????????

[TinTin and Samby 11]

Ok. There is some misinformation in this thread that needs to be cleared up.

First. That FBI phone line will **NEVER** tell you if your fingerprints are "Good" or not. They will only CONFIRM if they received the fingerprints sent from the USCIS ASC and if they have sent a REPLY to the USCIS ASC. The content of their REPLY will NOT be disclosed. AGAIN - You do not know if the Reply was, for example, "Fingerprints received and read and no match found" or "Fingerprints received and are unreadable" or something else.

Second. Asking the ASC people who take the fingerprints if your fingerprints are OK is pretty useless. The machine they use will only allow them to "Save" off the captured fingerprints if the Machine determines that the fingerprints read meet certain criteria. The ASC personnel can not "override" this criteria. Therefore, if the Machine allows them to SAVE your fingerprints, then the ASC personnel will tell you that the fingerprints are "fine". If not, then the ASC personnel will have your fingerprints rescanned right there and then until the Machine accepts them. Unfortunately, as many people have experieienced, even if the Machine allows the fingerprints to be saved, this does not guarantee that the fingerprints are "good". Many people have been called back to the ASC on a subsequent date to have their fingerprints retaken, because the first set were not good. And some unlucky people have even had this second set of "Accepted" fingerprints be reported to them some weeks or months later as not being "fine". These folks have to go and collect Police Records from all municipalities where they have lived and submit them "RFE" style, in lieu of their fingerprints.

[Darnell 8,478]

Thanks for clearing this up !

[scotty2009 13]

Ok. There is some misinformation in this thread that needs to be cleared up.

First. That FBI phone line will **NEVER** tell you if your fingerprints are "Good" or not. They will only CONFIRM if they received the fingerprints sent from the USCIS ASC and if they have sent a REPLY to the USCIS ASC. The content of their REPLY will NOT be disclosed. AGAIN - You do not know if the Reply was, for example, "Fingerprints received and read and no match found" or "Fingerprints received and are unreadable" or something else.

Second. Asking the ASC people who take the fingerprints if your fingerprints are OK is pretty useless. The machine they use will only allow them to "Save" off the captured fingerprints if the Machine determines that the fingerprints read meet certain criteria. The ASC personnel can not "override" this criteria. Therefore, if the Machine allows them to SAVE your fingerprints, then the ASC personnel will tell you that the fingerprints are "fine". If not, then the ASC personnel will have your fingerprints rescanned right there and then until the Machine accepts them. Unfortunately, as many people have experieienced, even if the Machine allows the fingerprints to be saved, this does not guarantee that the fingerprints are "good". Many people have been called back to the ASC on a subsequent date to have their fingerprints retaken, because the first set were not good. And some unlucky people have even had this second set of "Accepted" fingerprints be reported to them some weeks or months later as not being "fine". These folks have to go and collect Police Records from all municipalities where they have lived and submit them "RFE" style, in lieu of their fingerprints.

Thanks for the info. I never thought I had to worry about my fingerprints. I thought that if all my fingerprints were accepted during biometrics and I KNOW I don't have any criminal records, I should be fine. I didn't know that biometrics staff can let you go without getting a good fingerprint.

[eric_and_teresa 10]

Second. Asking the ASC people who take the fingerprints if your fingerprints are OK is pretty useless. The machine they use will only allow them to "Save" off the captured fingerprints if the Machine determines that the fingerprints read meet certain criteria. The ASC personnel can not "override" this criteria. Therefore, if the Machine allows them to SAVE your fingerprints, then the ASC personnel will tell you that the fingerprints are "fine". If not, then the ASC personnel will have your fingerprints rescanned right there and then until the Machine accepts them. Unfortunately, as many people have experieienced, even if the Machine allows the fingerprints to be saved, this does not guarantee that the fingerprints are "good". Many people have been called back to the ASC on a subsequent date to have their fingerprints retaken, because the first set were not good. And some unlucky people have even had this second set of "Accepted" fingerprints be reported to them some weeks or months later as not being "fine". These folks have to go and collect Police Records from all municipalities where they have lived and submit them "RFE" style, in lieu of their fingerprints.

I totally agree with you. When I got mine taken for the AOS, I noticed that the lady who was taking had some issues with some fingers, and had to re-take them a few times. When she was done, I asked if they were OK and she said "yes." Well, three weeks later I received a letter saying my fingerprints could not be read, so I had to go back and have them re-taken.

Thanks for the clarification!