Walkin Biometrics Seattle Appointment experience!

[app-girl 0]

I am writing this for others who will be trying a walk-in at the Seattle office, since I was unprepared even though I researched it throughly on here before we went.

Well tried to do a walk in today at the Seattle office for our Biometrics appointment. It was a failure!

I knew the Seattle office was one of the busiest, but thought we would try since original appointment was on my due date. Got there at 7:30am and biometrics desk doesnt open until 8am. They let me in and stated to go to that desk when it opens and they will let me know. Went to the desk and they advised they could call our name if they were able to see us. So every hour a new influx of people showed up and every hour we were waiting. If you had an appointment you were there for about an hour. You walked in with a number they called it and then they let the person who needed the bio to go back. They wait in the back for the bio and then they are done. It was hard sitting there 9 months pregnant with no food for 5 hours and seeing everyone go back and leaving within an hour. I did ask later when did they usually let people without appointments back and she said it depends on when they have one of the biometrics staff with no one to service. Not sure when that would happen with an new batch of people scheduled every hour. We watched the room fill up and empty 5 times before I finally gave up. I will just have to reschedule. At least then I know the appointment will only be an hour!!!

Hope this helps others!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

How rude of them to not give a 9 month pregnant woman a break!! I can't even imagine what takes an hour anyway. It's a pretty simple process. I will say that trying to walk in first thing in the morning is probably not the best idea. We've done 3 walk-ins now at a supposedly busy office, and at 3:00 in the afternoon, it wasn't busy at all.

[Sean John 0]

One hour is crazy!

Maybe that's why they are so busy!

We did my wife's bio the other day, and it took them all of 10 minutes after they called her number, and maybe 5 minutes of waiting before that.

Hope you are able to reschedule at a convenient date.

And good luck with baby!

[rocks 494]

How rude of them to not give a 9 month pregnant woman a break!! I can't even imagine what takes an hour anyway. It's a pretty simple process. I will say that trying to walk in first thing in the morning is probably not the best idea. We've done 3 walk-ins now at a supposedly busy office, and at 3:00 in the afternoon, it wasn't busy at all.

That is very rude! The office in Louisiana is exactly the same. Those chairs are very uncomfortable, I can't imagine sitting in one for 5 hours while pregnant. It was bad enough at the oath ceremony for 2 hours and 34 weeks pregnant! It wasn't busy last time we tried to do biometrics early, they still would not let us do it. You must be there at the exact time and date or they won't see you. It seems very unfair that different offices have different rules about walk-ins.

Edited August 9, 2012 by rocks

[app-girl 0]

Thanks for all of the support. It really sucked but I certainly learned from that mistake. First thing the day after mailed off our request to reschedule. Hopefully in will me some time in Sept and not to far out!