Fingerprint
If an interview is scheduled after the fingerprint expires, interview
will continue and the applicant will be asked to get refingerprinted.
However, if the fingerprint expires, then the computer may not
schedule interview until the fresh fingerprint is available.
Following are the options:
Visit Atlanta office 1 month before the fingerprint expires requesting
them to help for scheduling an interview.
Once the fingerprint expires, if the interview has not been scheduled,
again visit office or write letters to TSC or Atlanta office or
call the 1-800-375-5283 ( INS national helpline ) requesting for
status. Likelihood is that one of these numerous efforts will
immediately prompt the computer to realize that this fingerprint has
expired and a refingerprint notice needs to be mailed. Atleast, this
way one will get the refingerprint notice almost immediately and the
N400 application will become active as soon as the refingerprinting is done. I think I have seen on the newsgroup that people didn\'t
receive their refingerprint notice soon enough and the computer
couldn\'t schedule interviews for expired fingerprint cases. Some of these people I think requested congressinal/senators helps following which they received refingerprint notice following which they received interview letters. Again I am not sure how the overall scheduling process works, however, based on what is happening, the best we can do is to continue to follow up.
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