Saturday, April 08, 2006
Fingerprinting
Today we all piled in to the car and drove to San Jose to be fingerprinted for the I-600A application. Amazingly, it wasn't much of a hassle at all. We were quickly received into the office, filled out a simple form, received a number for the fingerprinting queue, and then after a wait of about 10-15 minutes, each had our fingerprints processed and were able to go. The kids were amazingly patient and well-behaved through the whole process. Even my grandmother didn't cause any trouble. =)
After fingerprinting we all went to the Old Spaghetti Factory in San Jose and had a tasty lunch. I haven't been there in ages! The brown butter and mizithra cheese spaghetti still tastes great. Then we walked to the Tech Museum and spent a few hours there. The kids made virtual bikes on a computer, sat in a space-walk jet-pack simulation, designed a rollercoaster, and drove underwater robots and a MARS rover.
What was most amazing to me was that the museum was not crowded! For a Saturday afternoon it was quite vacant. I don't understand it, but perhaps because it wasn't raining people were out and about elsewhere. But, on the whole, downtown San Jose is still incredibly quiet on weekend days. And I would venture to guess that it is because there is NO SHOPPING. There are more restaurants than I remember, most closed. Why no shopping?
Yesterday, after dropping the kids off at school, I drove down to the County Assessor's office and showed them what I needed for the 'Verification of Property Ownership" letter. They said they could do it and would mail it to me. $2! That's the cheapest form yet, and no notarizing needed either because it's on county letterhead. As I was pulling out of the parking lot I remembered that the example I left them said "[homeowners names] personally appeared before me...". Sigh. They didn't even ask me for my ID. I hope that they get it right.
Monday I'll fax our fingerprinting receipts to BCIS, and mail our assets info to our tax preparer.
After fingerprinting we all went to the Old Spaghetti Factory in San Jose and had a tasty lunch. I haven't been there in ages! The brown butter and mizithra cheese spaghetti still tastes great. Then we walked to the Tech Museum and spent a few hours there. The kids made virtual bikes on a computer, sat in a space-walk jet-pack simulation, designed a rollercoaster, and drove underwater robots and a MARS rover.
What was most amazing to me was that the museum was not crowded! For a Saturday afternoon it was quite vacant. I don't understand it, but perhaps because it wasn't raining people were out and about elsewhere. But, on the whole, downtown San Jose is still incredibly quiet on weekend days. And I would venture to guess that it is because there is NO SHOPPING. There are more restaurants than I remember, most closed. Why no shopping?
Yesterday, after dropping the kids off at school, I drove down to the County Assessor's office and showed them what I needed for the 'Verification of Property Ownership" letter. They said they could do it and would mail it to me. $2! That's the cheapest form yet, and no notarizing needed either because it's on county letterhead. As I was pulling out of the parking lot I remembered that the example I left them said "[homeowners names] personally appeared before me...". Sigh. They didn't even ask me for my ID. I hope that they get it right.
Monday I'll fax our fingerprinting receipts to BCIS, and mail our assets info to our tax preparer.
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4 comments:
like your sidebar... :)))
so nice that the fingerprinting went so smoothly... and that you all had a fab lunch. :))) and that the other letter was just 2 bucks...
as Tescos here likes to say, every little bit helps... :)))
have a really beautiful day, and give all our love!!!
Congrats on moving forward! One piece of paper at a time and you will be finished soon.
Congrats on the smooth-sailing through the fingerprints. That is one more thing to be checked off the list :) ~ gaye
The fingerprinting is a great milestone. Now the wait for the I-171H. I counted off five weeks on my calendar and told myself I wouldn't even think about it until then. But it arrived in less than five weeks so it was a fun surprise!
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