Fingerprinting Fun

On Monday, just before we left Indy to visit Howie's parents in Ft. Wayne, we travelled downtown to have our electronic fingerprints taken.  They have quite an operation down there!  We thought we'd be in and out-- no problems, right?  Well, hopefully no problems.  We have to wait and see to be sure.

Howie had his taken first, and I saw the lady talking to him about something.  Then, he had to leave the room, and I had to get my fingerprints taken.  That proved to be a little difficult due to my hand eczema.  Actually, my hands look pretty good once the weather starts to warm up, but apparently, my fingertips were drier than what was required for the biometrics to be taken, so I twice had to rub in cornhuskers lotion that they had ready for me to use at the facility.  I think that finally turned out fine, since she was told electronically if it was acceptable or not and kept redoing them until they met the standard.

Afterwards, I met back up with my husband, and we got in the car, ready to continue our journey.  I asked him out of curiosity what they were talking about when he had his prints taken, and he said, "She asked if we were adopting from Uganda" because that's what was stated on the screen that she was working with.  He said that we were not and were adopting from China.  She then deleted Uganda and typed in USA.  I said to Howie, "Why didn't she type in China?"  He didn't know, so that's where the mystery lies now.  I called a number that we  had on our fingerprinting form (a national number for homeland security questions about fingerprinting), and I asked if they had the number for the place where we received our fingerprints, and they said, "No, they have no phone number.  If you have a question, you'll have to go there in person to ask them."  Our secretary at Bethany said that she had never heard of a situation like Howie's happening but that she wouldn't worry too much about it; she thought it was fine, so we're not going in person to ask-- at least not yet.  Hopefully everything gets figured out where Hague is concerned (China is a Hague convention country) and we receive our Immigration Approval sometime in the next week or so. 

Then, we'll copy and send off our dossier!

We'll keep you posted!

Jenn