On Wednesday, we headed to Milwaukee to get fingerprinted for the I600 application (INS, now BCIS, approval to bring the children into the country). We left about 5:45am.
My friend Jane gave us some tips about the area--there was construction going on! It was a little confusing because we couldn't tell where the highway dumped us out, but we figured it out pretty quickly (thank goodness for MapQuest maps!). She also suggested street parking so I brought along lots of quarters! We easily found metered parking a half block from the building.
We got there with 30 minutes to wait for the building to open, and were about 10th in line. It was a chilly morning, and we both really needed a bathroom break after the drive (about 1.5 hours). Only a couple other people were there for fingerprinting, so we ended up 2 and 3 in that line. The letter warned that you could be in a long line, so we were nervous about how boring the morning would be. The only problem ended up being all the hours driving with such a short break!
Oh, and the fingerprinting itself--we expected to get all inked up. Eric even promised to put a fingerprint on my cheek to wear to work. It was all digital! We were disappointed ::giggles:: But it was certainly nice to have it clean and neat. We had to put Cornhusker's lotion on first then they took us to a machine with a couple glass plates. First, the 4 fingers were done all at once on the larger plate. Then each digit was done separately on the smaller one. We were out of there less than an hour after we arrived!
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