Employment Based Greencard

This site has helped me go through the waiting period of our green card journey. It was an everyday routine, even more than once a day, to open and read similar timelines and situations. Although all you can do is wait and raise a SR if needed, but as always patience is a virtue.

For those who has issues on fingerprinting (prints cannot be read), hope this can help in the event one will be called for interview. I am not sure if this will work but had I known, I would have done this.

When the IO tried twice on getting your prints and still fails then you will receive an RFE to submit police clearance. It will be frustrating that ones case would have been approved right there then on the interview but will be held pending submission of clearance. Securing clearance can be different for each state and can take several days. Then one has to submit to USCIS and wait for 60 days after submission before an SR can be raised. One can be lucky if your case will be worked upon earlier to be cleared. And one can never know too if another RFE will be raised or your application will past a year in time for you medicals to expire.

So if you have had problems with fingerprinting, then probably it will be wise to secure police clearances and bring them to the interview. That way you can politely tell the IO that you will submit a recent clearance if your prints can’t be read. And perhaps you will receive the approval on the spot.