The good news is...(drumroll please)...we got our letter from the USCIS/Department of Homeland Security to go and get our fingerprints taken. This is exciting news. I am assuming that this means that they have our home study and our file is almost complete, after we have the fingerprinting done.
The bad news is... (no drumroll necessary, how about some sad mood music)...the fingerprinting is scheduled for next Friday, and we are supposed to be out of town, away for the weekend without E. From what I've read, you just don't miss the fingerprinting scheduled for you by the CIS. If you want your baby, that is, and we do.
So here is the big question: Has anyone ever asked to reschedule their fingerprinting, specifically in the Philadelphia area, and when they reschedule is it two long months later, or in a reasonable amount of time? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
We are planning on being in New York to go to the US Open (it's tennis). We could go later on Friday, and miss some of the matches, thereby wasting precious money that we shelled out for the tickets. But of course we do NOT want to delay this process any further. (If you haven't read the whining about our home study, the short version is that it took a LONG, LONG time to complete.) Because this is a little scary:
"RESCHEDULING YOUR (sic) APPOINMENT WILL DELAY YOUR APPLICATION. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR AS SCHEDULED BELOW OR FAIL TO REQUEST RESCHEDULING, YOUR APPLICATION WILL BE CONSIDERED ABANDONED."
We certainly do not want to reschedule our appoinment, or abandon this application. We really want to follow The Rules and complete The Paperwork and meet our girl.
Posted by grrlTravels at September 1, 2004 9:17 PMI just got back on here after being without internet connection for over a week... ahhh...so it was fun to read a bunch of your entries one after another.
OK, i have no idea as to the answer to your question. But i have this thought. In the long run of things, what is more important, a couple tennis matches and some money or those precious days, hours, weeks, months that you may miss with your baby if this fingerprinting gets delayed.
Food for thought, you can even shove it down the garbage disposal if that's what ya want.
Posted by: Bec at September 3, 2004 12:47 PM