How can finger prints expire??????

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DoctorT

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Admitted, I am not a forensic expert, but it sounds kind of a bad joke that fingerprints can expire.

I will happily accept that fingerprints has to be re-evaluated after 15 month as the owner can have comitted new crimes but I have great doubts that fingerprints change after 15 month.

What about the millions of finger prints in criminal records, are they useless after 15 month???

If we accept that they change I can't believe that they change after 15 month, that is against nature, changes are gradually over a long period of time.

Is this a result of mis interrpretation of legislation?
 
For what I know, it is not your fingerprints that expires of course, but the background check made by the FBI (or other institution).
BCIS must be reassured that you did not break the law every 15 months.
However, they still have the original fingerprints in file, and it would be much easier to just resubmit the same prints to FBI, but by doing that they would reduce our stress, and that is unacceptable.
 
Correct. GC applicants' fingerprints are processed by the FBI at the agency's facility in West Virginia. The "clearance" is valid for 15 months only; after that a new processing is required. It normally takes the agency 1-2 days to run a check against the database; therefore, in the ideal world, checking one's FP's should be the very last thing to do right before the approval (that way, there would fewer criminals adjusting their status). Alas, things don't always work the way they should. Plus, a $50 processing fee multiplied by hundreds of thousand of applicants is a nice addition to the currently-deep-in-red budget.
 
Question for stripped:

Does everyone crossing 15 months time frame bound to get FP renewal or is it just picked up ramdonly?
I know somebody who has not been approved so far and also did not get FP renewal notice even though her FP was done sometimes in early Jan 2002.
 
Does everyone going over the speed limit get a ticket? The same logic applies here...
Most people (as seen from posts on this board) do get a notice for re-FP'ing. Few do not .
 
they don't keep your fingerprints

Acoording to the law they are not alowed to keep your fingerprints, unless you are a criminal. So they have to dismiss them after the first background check comes up as negative. That's why they have to take them again after 15 month.
 
I did refengerprint

Nobody knows what is the exact rule BCIS are applying for refingerprint. As per my lawyer, If the primary applicants fingerprint done 15 months before and still approval pending, he/she has to do refingerprint. Immigration Officer will ne adjucate the case till refingerprint and Background check completed. that means you are screwed for about 3/4 months in total.
 
I don't think they realy dismiss them :)

I don't think they realy dismiss them.
But they have to pretend they do :)
 
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