Did early walk in for biometrics at Alexandria VA. Our appointments are three weeks from now. Arrived around 1:45 pm. Hardly anyone was there. Brought 1) appointment letter, and 2) passport for ID. (Other official forms of photo ID fine as well.)
This site had helped us so much! I read that many people have successfully done early walk-in at the Alexandria location. Couldn't get anyone on the phone to confirm, but decided to try anyway. (It's a five hour round trip drive for us, so we were really hoping you all were right about early walk-in's being allowed!)
It's such a nice office. Every single person there was kind and helpful. We showed the appointment letters and ID. We didn't mention that the appointment dates were three weeks away. No one looked at the date on the letter or cared. They just want to know that you're officially scheduled. You fill out a very basic one page form, hand it in, get a ticket, go to the next waiting room. We were called for prints in under ten minutes. Less than 30 minutes start to finish total for both of us.
TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES OR LEAVE THEM IN THE CAR!
We were there for international adoption, but most people were there for green cards. It seemed that they had bilingual staff. I can't say enough good things about how nice that office is. Our government really does work sometimes and these people are awesome.
Early walk-in biometrics, Alexandria VA
in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports
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Dated June 20, 2013
Did early walk in for biometrics at Alexandria VA. Our appointments are three weeks from now. Arrived around 1:45 pm. Hardly anyone was there. Brought 1) appointment letter, and 2) passport for ID. (Other official forms of photo ID fine as well.)
This site had helped us so much! I read that many people have successfully done early walk-in at the Alexandria location. Couldn't get anyone on the phone to confirm, but decided to try anyway. (It's a five hour round trip drive for us, so we were really hoping you all were right about early walk-in's being allowed!)
It's such a nice office. Every single person there was kind and helpful. We showed the appointment letters and ID. We didn't mention that the appointment dates were three weeks away. No one looked at the date on the letter or cared. They just want to know that you're officially scheduled. You fill out a very basic one page form, hand it in, get a ticket, go to the next waiting room. We were called for prints in under ten minutes. Less than 30 minutes start to finish total for both of us.
TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES OR LEAVE THEM IN THE CAR!
We were there for international adoption, but most people were there for green cards. It seemed that they had bilingual staff. I can't say enough good things about how nice that office is. Our government really does work sometimes and these people are awesome.