For those who think early-walk-in-finger-printing harms nothing---
I went to Dallas North center on NW HWY trying a walk in finger printing at 8AM today. My scheduled time for FP is 3/24, which I had expected to be 3/9 or earlier according to the old timeline back in Feb but was significantly delayed in March. I have an overseas trip arranged from 3/17 till early May because my wife is expecting a baby at end of March.
The security guard at Dallas north center told me NO immediately after I explained my situation and showed her my itinerary. She said early appointments are not allowed any more just recently!! Her supervisor told them specifically that no one will be allowed in before the scheduled time, no matter what reason it is. After the scheduled FP date, you can walk in on any Wed or Saturday afternoons if you missed it. The CIS center will keep your profile for 87 days. You can also send your FP notice back to them for rescheduling to another date.
I am not sure why they stopped doing this. There could be two possible reasons: 1. large amount of cases, 2. our applicants have abused the system so much that they terminated this convenience for us.
If it's been the second reason, I would really be shameful for those who had taken advantage of this system, just for saving 0.5 day of your vacation and fulfilling your suspicion that early finger printing would have advanced your case on top of others. Your wrong doings have created some mess and shut the door for those who really needs this convenience. Some other folks like me would have to wait for almost another 2 months to get their process going again. Your nothing-to-hurt or nothing-wrong attitude just delayed/jeopardized others' application in some certain way. You may blame me too for going early. I won't fight with you on that!
For others' concern, my timeline is:
PD: 2/15/07
Check Deposited: 2/16/07
RN sent: 2/27/07
RN received: 3/5/07
FP notice date: 3/1/07
FP received date: 3/8/07
FP date: 3/24/07