UnWanted By FBI
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Queued up at 9am for a 10am appointment. Went in at 11am. Out at 11:30am with a token # and advice to come in again at 1pm same day. Went back at 1pm and left at 1:45pm after fingerprinting. Two weeks before appointment date I had called to check if I could come ahead of schedule but was not granted the same.
Fingerprinting Process
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1. You need a photo id and the appointment letter (issued by VSC in my case). No yellow form applied here.
2. Fill up a form, FD-258, given at the ASC.
3. Get token #. They do a cursory examination of your fingers at this stage.
4. When your turn comes, hand over completed FD-258, photo id and appointment letter to technician.
5. You could have the fingerprinting done by ink or optical scanner.
Optical Scanner
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Scan 1: Place four fingers flat and diagonally across on a 4" x 4" glass panel.
Scan 2: Place thumb and roll (all rolling engineered by technician).
Scan 3, 4, 5, 6: Place each finger individually and roll from right to left (or was it left to right ?).
Repeat above process for the other hand.
For each scan the system flashes a message like "Ridge Breaks", "Light", and "Pass". All "Light" were re-scanned but not all "Ridge Breaks". It appears the technician goes by experience and decides whether to re-scan or not to re-scan the "Ridge Breaks".
At the end a supervisor comes along and looks at the prints. There may be a re-scan if the supervisor is not satisfied.
The scanner was http://www.visionics.com/dbi/products/1133s.html
Ink Prints
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As above but with good old ink and paper.
Fingerprinting Process
======================
1. You need a photo id and the appointment letter (issued by VSC in my case). No yellow form applied here.
2. Fill up a form, FD-258, given at the ASC.
3. Get token #. They do a cursory examination of your fingers at this stage.
4. When your turn comes, hand over completed FD-258, photo id and appointment letter to technician.
5. You could have the fingerprinting done by ink or optical scanner.
Optical Scanner
===============
Scan 1: Place four fingers flat and diagonally across on a 4" x 4" glass panel.
Scan 2: Place thumb and roll (all rolling engineered by technician).
Scan 3, 4, 5, 6: Place each finger individually and roll from right to left (or was it left to right ?).
Repeat above process for the other hand.
For each scan the system flashes a message like "Ridge Breaks", "Light", and "Pass". All "Light" were re-scanned but not all "Ridge Breaks". It appears the technician goes by experience and decides whether to re-scan or not to re-scan the "Ridge Breaks".
At the end a supervisor comes along and looks at the prints. There may be a re-scan if the supervisor is not satisfied.
The scanner was http://www.visionics.com/dbi/products/1133s.html
Ink Prints
==========
As above but with good old ink and paper.