- FP scheduled for Sat, Mar 23, at 2pm at the Sacramento INS ASC.
- got to the ASC (731 K St) around 1:10pm and parked on the street.
- there\'s plenty of street parking around the area or you can always park at the downtown plaza garage.
- there\'s a security officer right inside the entrance who\'ll check your original fingerprint notice and a photo ID. he gives you an informational form to fill out. on that, you fill out your basic information including A# and reason for fingerprints (I-485 for me).
- after you\'ve filled that out, you give the form, your fingerprint notice, and photo ID to another person sitting right down from the security officer (it\'s all just one small room so you can\'t really get lost).
- she\'ll clip your info sheet, FP notice, photo ID, and a ticket number together and give everything back to you. all you have to do now is wait for your ticket number to be called. when she saw that i was using my california driver\'s license as a photo ID, she asked me for my EAD and i told her i hadn\'t received it yet. she was okay with that... although i guess your EAD is the photo ID of choice for INS. but as i said, driver\'s license is no problem (it even says so on the FP notice).
- there\'re four FP machines in one corner of the room and you can see the whole process as you wait. when it\'s your turn, they give you hand sanitizers and then take your FP (4 left fingers, 4 right fingers, left thumb, right thumb, then all individual fingers). the machine actually detects ridge breaks and other technical problems right there which was kinda cool.
- the FP person kept the original FP notice and filled out the bottom part of the informational sheet (with date, employee number, etc). she gives that to you to keep. she also gives you a comment card to fill out which you can drop in a box on the way out.
- i was out of the ASC by 1:45pm. all in all, a very pleasant experience.
while i didn\'t do an early FP, there weren\'t that many people at the Sacramento ASC. so i\'m fairly sure an early FP is not a problem if you just show up there.
hope that helps!
- got to the ASC (731 K St) around 1:10pm and parked on the street.
- there\'s plenty of street parking around the area or you can always park at the downtown plaza garage.
- there\'s a security officer right inside the entrance who\'ll check your original fingerprint notice and a photo ID. he gives you an informational form to fill out. on that, you fill out your basic information including A# and reason for fingerprints (I-485 for me).
- after you\'ve filled that out, you give the form, your fingerprint notice, and photo ID to another person sitting right down from the security officer (it\'s all just one small room so you can\'t really get lost).
- she\'ll clip your info sheet, FP notice, photo ID, and a ticket number together and give everything back to you. all you have to do now is wait for your ticket number to be called. when she saw that i was using my california driver\'s license as a photo ID, she asked me for my EAD and i told her i hadn\'t received it yet. she was okay with that... although i guess your EAD is the photo ID of choice for INS. but as i said, driver\'s license is no problem (it even says so on the FP notice).
- there\'re four FP machines in one corner of the room and you can see the whole process as you wait. when it\'s your turn, they give you hand sanitizers and then take your FP (4 left fingers, 4 right fingers, left thumb, right thumb, then all individual fingers). the machine actually detects ridge breaks and other technical problems right there which was kinda cool.
- the FP person kept the original FP notice and filled out the bottom part of the informational sheet (with date, employee number, etc). she gives that to you to keep. she also gives you a comment card to fill out which you can drop in a box on the way out.
- i was out of the ASC by 1:45pm. all in all, a very pleasant experience.
while i didn\'t do an early FP, there weren\'t that many people at the Sacramento ASC. so i\'m fairly sure an early FP is not a problem if you just show up there.
hope that helps!