Hallo firstimmigrant -
I did not have any problem going early for fingerprints.
On the letter it said that I could have rescheduled for a Wednesday or a Saturday so I guessed they were slow days. I have no idea if in fact they are or not.
I went on a Wednesday at noon. There were very few people inside and I asked the lady at the check in if I could get it done at that time as I might need to travel on the scheduled date.
She said she had to ask because they schedule so many people per hour. So she went to the supervisor's office with my letter. The supervisor (I could see from the window) talked to her for a while then stuck the head out of the door, looked at me, looked at the room and talked again to the lady. Then she came back and said, OK you can do it now.
I understand that others were not so lucky. I do not think it hurts asking, if you have the time.
FP are sent electronically to the FBI. From what I understand reading on the web, most are processed within 24 hours.
You can call the FBI fingerprint section (the number is in this thread, a few pages back). The will ask for your A#. They will tell you when they have received the finger prints, and when they sent the results back. They will not tell you what the results are and they do not have any information about background checks, which are done at another office (the FP section is in West Virginia).
Good luck.
Itahou- Congratulations on passing the interview. Great that you got Oath letter at the end of interview --- Cool.
Two questions:
-Any issues when you went for early FP?
- What is the process to check if your FP were cleared by FBI?
*Any other tip you would like to share for folks from Houston?
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N400 (Employment based GC)
DO Houston
4/07/2009: Priority Date
4/15/2009: NOA - N400 receipt
5/11/2009: FP notice
5/28/2009: Finger print schedule in Sugar Land
x/xx/2009: IL??