Going to Biometrics Appointment 2 days Early?

[luna_azul0609 6]

Hi guys, 

 

My husband received his biometrics appointment letter, scheduled for May 24th. Of course, this happens to be a day we will be flying to another city, so we are looking at options for rescheduling. I see that we can send in the letter to reschedule, but we can make it to the ACS office on May 22nd. Do you think they will let us do the biometrics early? I scheduled an infopass appointment for the 22nd, I understand infopass appointments are different than biometrics, but in our case, they take place at the same office (Milwaukee)

 

Should I send in the letter to reschedule, or keep it and try getting the biometrics done at the infopass appointment? If we can't get it done at the info pass appointment can I still send the letter to reschedule even if it's only 2 days before the original appt?

 

I called the number on the letter to ask but the first agent hung up on my (since I wasn't my husband) and the second agent told me my husband could call and reschedule on the phone, is that true?

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Chicken7585 36]

3 minutes ago, luna_azul0609 said:

Hi guys, 

 

My husband received his biometrics appointment letter, scheduled for May 24th. Of course, this happens to be a day we will be flying to another city, so we are looking at options for rescheduling. I see that we can send in the letter to reschedule, but we can make it to the ACS office on May 22nd. Do you think they will let us do the biometrics early? I scheduled an infopass appointment for the 22nd, I understand infopass appointments are different than biometrics, but in our case, they take place at the same office (Milwaukee)

 

Should I send in the letter to reschedule, or keep it and try getting the biometrics done at the infopass appointment? If we can't get it done at the info pass appointment can I still send the letter to reschedule even if it's only 2 days before the original appt?

 

I called the number on the letter to ask but the first agent hung up on my (since I wasn't my husband) and the second agent told me my husband could call and reschedule on the phone, is that true?

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

I don't know what your local office is like but I think with most offices, you can definitely go early. I went in Atlanta and they made me wait till all the people with priority could go first but they processed me as usual.

[luna_azul0609 6]

2 minutes ago, Chicken7585 said:

I don't know what your local office is like but I think with most offices, you can definitely go early. I went in Atlanta and they made me wait till all the people with priority could go first but they processed me as usual.

Very cool, thank you. We don't mind waiting all day if we can get in at some point lol. 

[luna_azul0609 6]

Update: Went to the Milwaukee location and walked-in. Showed them the letter and was told that they could take us if they had time and we didn't mind waiting. We got there around 10:30 am and the place was packed. There were too many people in the waiting area so they asked some of the companions who were there to wait upstairs. My husband and I had made an Infopass appointment for noon, so we went upstairs and talked to the guy at the Infopass window and explained that my husband and I would be traveling and wouldn't be able to make the original appointment in 2 days. He just looked at our letter, cancelled our original appointment and made a new one for that day at noon, printed the new letter and told my husband to go back downstairs. Very nice guy and we were so thankful for his help. I stayed upstairs due to the crowding, but my husband just showed the newly printed letter and they gave him a clipboard to fill out his information and a number. Around 12, I went back downstairs to check and the room had cleared out a lot. His number was called around 12:20 and it took approximately 15 minutes for him to complete the biometrics. We received an email 2 days later from USCIS saying the biometrics were received.