Second Biometrics Letter received?

[NLP 0]

Well today we got some good news and some strange news. The good news is we're getting mail from USCIS. That beats getting emails that items sent were returned as undeliverable! The strange news is the letter was for a Biometrics appointment in Jan. As you can see from our siggy, we had an InfoPass appointment last week where they had my wife do her Biometrics on the same day at the Charlotte ASC.

Intuitively, I feel like this second letter was generated from the MSC because we got our address situation squared away at our InfoPass appointment and this is just a redundant and unnecessary duplicate of sorts. However since the consequences of missing a scheduled appointment can be extreme, I'm left wondering what we should do: Call Customer Service or schedule another InfoPass appointment. I searched the fora for another example of this happening, but didn't see one.

Any suggestions?

[LaL 418]

Well today we got some good news and some strange news. The good news is we're getting mail from USCIS. That beats getting emails that items sent were returned as undeliverable! The strange news is the letter was for a Biometrics appointment in Jan. As you can see from our siggy, we had an InfoPass appointment last week where they had my wife do her Biometrics on the same day at the Charlotte ASC.

Intuitively, I feel like this second letter was generated from the MSC because we got our address situation squared away at our InfoPass appointment and this is just a redundant and unnecessary duplicate of sorts. However since the consequences of missing a scheduled appointment can be extreme, I'm left wondering what we should do: Call Customer Service or schedule another InfoPass appointment. I searched the fora for another example of this happening, but didn't see one.

Any suggestions?

It's possible that your biometrics taken was only for one of your applications, and this appointment is for the other. IF you had index only done it was for EAD if you had all 10 taken thats for AOS. If you had both done the 1st time, then there is an oversight somewhere!

[NLP 0]

They definitely did her Biometrics and 10 prints for the 765 and 485. Since we were doing a same day InfoPass and ASC appointment (they told us to just go over with our NOAs for the respective documents) they stamped and wrote on those NOAs. So we do have a paper trail of sorts that showed we did show up, as well as the paper work you fill out when you reach ASC and the yellow card they have you place in the box.

So I guess ultimately my question is: Can we disregard the second Biometrics appointment or should we do something about it? And by doing something about it, would a call to Customer Service be enough or should we make an InfoPass appointment again and bring the NOAs the ASC stamped and wrote on as supporting evidence? I'm leaning towards the InfoPass appointment because I'd rather sacrafice an hour than sacrafice several weeks.

[LaL 418]

They definitely did her Biometrics and 10 prints for the 765 and 485. Since we were doing a same day InfoPass and ASC appointment (they told us to just go over with our NOAs for the respective documents) they stamped and wrote on those NOAs. So we do have a paper trail of sorts that showed we did show up, as well as the paper work you fill out when you reach ASC and the yellow card they have you place in the box.

So I guess ultimately my question is: Can we disregard the second Biometrics appointment or should we do something about it? And by doing something about it, would a call to Customer Service be enough or should we make an InfoPass appointment again and bring the NOAs the ASC stamped and wrote on as supporting evidence? I'm leaning towards the InfoPass appointment because I'd rather sacrafice an hour than sacrafice several weeks.

did they take separate 1 finger biometrics?

[NLP 0]

Yes they did.

Edit: Just noticed they touched both the 485 and 765 again.

Edited January 4, 2007 by NLP

[*JG* 2]

They definitely did her Biometrics and 10 prints for the 765 and 485. Since we were doing a same day InfoPass and ASC appointment (they told us to just go over with our NOAs for the respective documents) they stamped and wrote on those NOAs. So we do have a paper trail of sorts that showed we did show up, as well as the paper work you fill out when you reach ASC and the yellow card they have you place in the box.

So I guess ultimately my question is: Can we disregard the second Biometrics appointment or should we do something about it? And by doing something about it, would a call to Customer Service be enough or should we make an InfoPass appointment again and bring the NOAs the ASC stamped and wrote on as supporting evidence? I'm leaning towards the InfoPass appointment because I'd rather sacrafice an hour than sacrafice several weeks.

did they take separate 1 finger biometrics?

That's what I was going to say. Jomo had his 10 print done for the 485 and then had a single print done for the work permit. Both were required to get the ball rolling. I would not ignore the second notice.

[LaL 418]

i am not sure if the 2nd biometrics has pased, and not sure if this will help you any as far as confirming there is no need for a second set (should that be what they are requesting)

you can do the following to confirm prints received & returned:

Confirming Prints received

1-304-625-2000

Select the option of Immigration on the auto-attendant, get a

switchboard operator, tell them you want to speak with someone

regarding immigration fingerprinting. A rep will answer and look

up your "A" number and confirm when/if prints were received and

returned.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I definitely wouldn't ignore it but do a follow up call or appointment. It could be that there was a problem with the prints they took during your appointment and they need to redo them - or it could just be that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Pays not to take that last bit for granted though, even though it is tempting:-). Follow lal's advice. Good luck.