Biometric Screening

Hello All,

Last week Jennifer and I had to head down to an immigration office in Detroit for Biometric Screening.

This screening is part of the USCIS I-600A process and sounds unbelievably intimidating. Jen and I were very curious as to what Biometrics our government was prepared to screen :)

As we entered, we quickly realized that what our government refers to as Biometric Screening (at least related to the adoption process) is just an extremely fancy word set for fingerprinting.

The process took all of 10 minutes and our Biometrics were screened.

Total Cost for all of this was $830. Yes, that's right, $83 per minute if you're counting. In essence, it cost us $41.50 per finger printed. (20 fingers).

Heck, some would argue that you can get this service done free of charge at your local precinct. All it would take is a nice ride in the back of a police car :-)

No wonder why our government has such a nice name for this process :-)

THANKS for Reading!

Watch your Biometrics or they may get screened!

Love,
Keith and Jennifer

Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3UWiJCZAz8