How can fingerprints expire?

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How can fingerprints expire?
Are the applicants being made to do second FP because it is all electronic now and so it can get updated? Second FP people, was your first FP electronic?
 
Maybe

They are not supposed to keep the fingerprints on file. And every year they need to make a security check for any incidents
 
Maybe they want to make sure we have not expired, i.e. committed suicide with sheer frustration at the lack of efficiency of INS/BCIS staff. :D
 
wong561hb said:
FP's expire every 15 months - it's an interesting rule since I don't think FP's change as one ages.
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In reality it is not the FP's that expire, but the FBI results on your FP check expires in 15 months. Because BCIS does not keep your FP on file, they have to again get the FP's and get them recheked (because a person may have commited a crime in those 15 months..actually he may have commited in the next week, but 15 months is the rule they go by). Makes sense ?

Now I am hearnig USCIS is making provisions to store applicants FP on file, so that a person will not be required to go for more than one FP. They should have done this long ago, and saved themselves and us (the applicants) a lot of time and headache.
 
sertra2002 said:
Now I am hearnig USCIS is making provisions to store applicants FP on file, so that a person will not be required to go for more than one FP. They should have done this long ago, and saved themselves and us (the applicants) a lot of time and headache.
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Not a good idea. It's a question of privacy. Who knows that FP database won't be abused and won't be used for any other purpose. In general immigrant's civil liberties are more restricted than american citizens. In american politics even a gun made of only metal and woods has stronger lobby than immigrants. Probably white collar people (employment based I485) will be saved and won't be affected, but here we are talking about the whole immigrant community.

If they decide to keep the FP in database, I would be looking at fine-prints carefully.
 
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