FYI, my wife managed to get her FP (#1) done at the Fort Worth ASC earlier today despite the fact that:
+she was scheduled for 11/02
+she was supposed to have this done in Alexandria, VA
+she only had a fax copy of the notice that the lawyer received (her copy never showed up)
From what we can tell, the VSC apparently sent our case information out to the ASC's right around the time that we changed our address. My address had already been changed and my notice went to the correct center in Fort Worth, my wife's address hadn't yet changed and it went to the ASC near our old home in VA. Note: this seems to reenforce the fact that it's the ASC's who determine when to send out FP notices...
After getting advice from our lawyer, the USCIS and this forum, we decided to go to the Fort Worth ASC today to explain what had happened in the hope that they would do my wife's FP.
We might have lucked out somewhat because there were 2 people at the greeting desk and one of them (some woman) was insisting that we would need the original notice. She pointed out that the fax was a compressed one and she guaranteed us that it would never scan correctly. Fortunately the other person (a man fwiw) pretty much ignored her and waved my wife in...
About 15 minutes later she was done. She watched them scan the fax and her name and address etc. came up on-screen just fine (it showed her old address which the officer changed to our new one).
Other random information:
In speaking with some of the people there my wife learned that they are currently processing far fewer people per day than their capacity (at the Fort Worth ASC). They have 3 people handling fingerprinting and they are rarely getting anywhere near the 30 cases / day / person that they can handle (when I did my own FP a few weeks ago, the office was almost empty).
Also, note that the Fort Worth ASC is closed on Mondays and open on Saturdays (we almost went on Monday instead of today which would have been annoying given that it's a 45 minute drive...). Maybe all ASC's have the same hours?
Anyway, just thought this information might be useful and/or provide some insight into how the ASC's work.
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+she was scheduled for 11/02
+she was supposed to have this done in Alexandria, VA
+she only had a fax copy of the notice that the lawyer received (her copy never showed up)
From what we can tell, the VSC apparently sent our case information out to the ASC's right around the time that we changed our address. My address had already been changed and my notice went to the correct center in Fort Worth, my wife's address hadn't yet changed and it went to the ASC near our old home in VA. Note: this seems to reenforce the fact that it's the ASC's who determine when to send out FP notices...
After getting advice from our lawyer, the USCIS and this forum, we decided to go to the Fort Worth ASC today to explain what had happened in the hope that they would do my wife's FP.
We might have lucked out somewhat because there were 2 people at the greeting desk and one of them (some woman) was insisting that we would need the original notice. She pointed out that the fax was a compressed one and she guaranteed us that it would never scan correctly. Fortunately the other person (a man fwiw) pretty much ignored her and waved my wife in...
About 15 minutes later she was done. She watched them scan the fax and her name and address etc. came up on-screen just fine (it showed her old address which the officer changed to our new one).
Other random information:
In speaking with some of the people there my wife learned that they are currently processing far fewer people per day than their capacity (at the Fort Worth ASC). They have 3 people handling fingerprinting and they are rarely getting anywhere near the 30 cases / day / person that they can handle (when I did my own FP a few weeks ago, the office was almost empty).
Also, note that the Fort Worth ASC is closed on Mondays and open on Saturdays (we almost went on Monday instead of today which would have been annoying given that it's a 45 minute drive...). Maybe all ASC's have the same hours?
Anyway, just thought this information might be useful and/or provide some insight into how the ASC's work.
ETA