New Fingerprint Requirements for Citizenship Applicants

We prepared this post to you know more about new fingerprint requirements for citizenship applicants, check it out! If you are an applicant for Green Card or Naturalization, keep in mind that USCIS requires a fingerprint to get a criminal background check.

Once USCIS receives your application, they will send you an appointment letter with the location and other instructions. Read the instructions specified on the appointment letter to make sure about the date and time.

There is a van in some areas located far away from fingerprint location, so you can also check on the appointment letter from the USCIS. They notify you if a van serves your area.

Take the appointment for fingerprinting and don’t forget to get a form to fill out. The USCIS will send your fingerprints to FBI for a criminal background check, and in some cases, they reject your fingerprints because of bad quality. In this case, USCIS notify you and schedule another appointment. You will not have to pay the fee again.

On the other hand, if FBI reject your fingerprints twice, you may ask to provide a police clearance for each place you have lived in the past five years.

In addition, sometimes USCIS may need additional documents for you before scheduling a new appointment, they will notify you of what is needed and where to send the supporting documents.

Once the FBI check is cleared, the USCIS will schedule a new interview, and will send you a notification in the mail specifying date, time and location.

Fingerprints usually expires in 15 months, so, has steel not been completed after that time, the applicant may be asked to get fingerprint again, and there is no explanation for this duration.

Each adult has to pay a separate biometric fee.

Moreover, there are some exceptions:

• Applicants and petitioners living abroad who are fingerprinted at U. S. consular military do not need to be fingerprinted by the USCIS and are exempt from the fingerprint fee;
• Applications Form I-589, do not have to pay biometric fee;
• Applicants filling initial registration of a Form I-817;
• Applicants filling initial registration or extension of a Form I-821, must pay the biometric fee each time;
• A Form I-600 and Form I-600A;

So, USCIS collects fingerprints and photographs during the biometrics services appointment.

The inability to Provide Fingerprints in case of a medical condition, deformity, skin condition, psychiatric condition, or birth defect will prevent a foreign national from providing fingerprints.

USCIS will need to make the determination of whether an applicant can be fingerprinted. This will require attempting to take the foreign national’s fingerprints in person first. If the condition is temporary, the foreign national must wait until it resolves before providing their fingerprints.

Foreign nationals who cannot be fingerprinted must submit police clearance letters from every place where they have lived during the last five years, or three years if the three-year residency requirement applies to them.

Some foreigners may be hospitalized, confined to their homes, or otherwise unable to go to the center because of a disability. They will not be excused from the biometrics requirement in this situation.

Once they inform USCIS about their limitations, a representative of USCIS will come to their home or the hospital to collect their biometrics. If you need more information, please Contact Us!

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