My wife is applying for citizenship. She has an appointment for
fingerprints in 2 weeks at a Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia office.

Does anyone have any experience on how long the appointment takes? Is it
in-and-out, or should we plan on spending half a day there? The appt. is
for 8am.

Thanks for any anecdotes.

I had my fingerprints taken in Detroit yesterday. It's an in-and-out.


Originally posted by Buck Turgidson My wife is
applying for citizenship. She has an appointment for fingerprints in
2 weeks at a Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia office. Does anyone
have any experience on how long the appointment takes? Is it in-and-
out, or should we plan on spending half a day there? The appt. is for
8am.
Thanks for any anecdotes.


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I went there in September '01. I would have been in and out quite quickly
but my day was apparently the overflow day for naturalization applicants who
had missed their appointments and for some reason they were let in first. So
perhaps allow half a day but hope for much less.

Andy.

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"Buck Turgidson" <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:aA8_b.14363$Dc2.3319@lakeread01... My wife is applying for citizenship. She has an appointment for fingerprints in 2 weeks at a Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia office. Does anyone have any experience on how long the appointment takes? Is it in-and-out, or should we plan on spending half a day there? The appt. is for 8am. Thanks for any anecdotes.

Originally posted by Buck Turgidson My wife is
applying for citizenship. She has an appointment for fingerprints in
2 weeks at a Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia office. Does
anyone have any experience on how long the appointment takes? Is it
in-and-out, or should we plan on spending half a day there? The appt.
is for 8am. Thanks for any anecdotes.

Buck-

How long
ago did you send in your wife's app? We are sending my husband's this
week... :)

kimmy


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Originally posted by Buck Turgidson My wife is applying
for citizenship. She has an appointment for fingerprints in 2 weeks
at a Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia office. Does anyone have
any experience on how long the appointment takes? Is it in-and-out,
or should we plan on spending half a day there? The appt. is for 8am.
Thanks for any anecdotes.

I had FP done there last
summer. Definitely plan on half a day. The whole thing took about two
hours for me. Make sure you know the location; it's pretty far S from
the beltway and you can drive by without knowing it's there.


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> How long ago did you send in your wife's app? We are sending my husband's this week... :)

We sent it in about a month ago. We were surprised at how quickly we got
the appt. I suspect things are downhill from here, though, in terms of
time. I hear it takes at least a year to get the citizenship.

Originally posted by Buck Turgidson How long
ago did you send in your wife's app? We are sending my
husband's this week... :) We sent it in about a
month ago. We were surprised at how quickly we got the appt. I
suspect things are downhill from here, though, in terms of time. I
hear it takes at least a year to get the citizenship.

Thanks
Buck. You know the wierd thing...the USCIS web page reports that DC is
working on N-400 apps from Nov. 28,2003. I thhought it was a typo as
maybe they were working on apps from 2002, but for three months now the
year has been 2003.

My hubby just hopes maybe he will get his
citizenship in time to register to vote for president.

kimmy


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"Buck Turgidson" <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<aA8_b.14363$Dc2.3319@lakeread01>... My wife is applying for citizenship. She has an appointment for fingerprints in 2 weeks at a Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia office. Does anyone have any experience on how long the appointment takes? Is it in-and-out, or should we plan on spending half a day there? The appt. is for 8am. Thanks for any anecdotes.

My wife and stepson were both in and out within 20 minutes. If your
appointment is at 8 I'm guessing you'll be out as soon as the
computers warm up.