baltimore01
New Member
Friends,
In the last week we got our passports stamped in Baltimore INS. The entire process took less than an hour, most of which spent in waiting for our numbers to be called. Here are a couple of tips:
1. For kids, we DO need two photographs, although the approval notice does not ask for.
2. Each person, including kid(s) has to take a separate token number. Because of this, mine, my wife\'s and daughter\'s turns came almost simultaneously. This caused a bit of confusion, as we thought that everyone will go together for stamping to the same IIO. In a nutshell, keep separate sets of documents (passport, photos, approval notice, AP, EAD cards etc) for each person and/or consider keeping gap between your token number and kids\'.
Other than this confusion, the entire process went fine, the IIO\'s were very nice and helpful. They did not ask for our AP and EAD cards saying they are already invalid once we get our pps stamped.
This has been a very useful bulletin board. Good luck to all !!
Our details: PD Oct 98, FP done: Aug 00, RD Sept 10 99, EB2 India.
In the last week we got our passports stamped in Baltimore INS. The entire process took less than an hour, most of which spent in waiting for our numbers to be called. Here are a couple of tips:
1. For kids, we DO need two photographs, although the approval notice does not ask for.
2. Each person, including kid(s) has to take a separate token number. Because of this, mine, my wife\'s and daughter\'s turns came almost simultaneously. This caused a bit of confusion, as we thought that everyone will go together for stamping to the same IIO. In a nutshell, keep separate sets of documents (passport, photos, approval notice, AP, EAD cards etc) for each person and/or consider keeping gap between your token number and kids\'.
Other than this confusion, the entire process went fine, the IIO\'s were very nice and helpful. They did not ask for our AP and EAD cards saying they are already invalid once we get our pps stamped.
This has been a very useful bulletin board. Good luck to all !!
Our details: PD Oct 98, FP done: Aug 00, RD Sept 10 99, EB2 India.