can you leave the country you are doing DCF while you wait?

[getcr1 0]

hi all,

it seems as though our application for DCF will take longer than expected. Since I am from Canada (we are applying in Japan), it looks as though fingerprinting will take 120 days to get back from Canada. I think once I get my fingerprints AND medical, THEN i can apply for an appointment which I hear takes a month while you wait to hear a response. Since we will both finish work at the end of March, we were hoping to leave Japan, and go travel India for 2 months or so while we waited for our fingerprints, and time it would take to get an application. Would it be feasible and okay to travel for a couple months while we wait? If we stay in Japan for that long without working, we are afraid of getting a bit broke....any thoughts? i have also thought about going to canada just to get my fingerprinting done as i heard it can take days for digital printing rather than months for ink fingerprinting. I also worry that since I will be moving out of my apartment in tokyo, that my mail will not be properly forwarded to the correct address since they send them by regular mail. Anyone else have any experiences similar to this? i just hope that my fingerprinting takes less than 120days....should I just stay in Japan? Is that safer? any advice greatly appreciated!

[Bobby+Umit 161]

I think you would probably want to ask this question to the embassy in Japan, they may have guidelines about the DCF that may interfere with your plans.

[getcr1 0]

I think you would probably want to ask this question to the embassy in Japan, they may have guidelines about the DCF that may interfere with your plans.

anyone else have any experience with this?