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I got mine done today at the ASC in Elizabeth, NJ. You walk in and show the guard your biometrics appt letter and your identification. Then, he/she gives you a form to fill out & also makes sure you turn off your phone. You fill out the top and it's basic information, your alien registration # and your receipt numbers. You show the guard that you completed the form, then you walk to the receptionist line. This line is a bit longer but at that time, it took about 10-15 minutes to get to the desk. The receptionist at the desk writes in a few details on the form you filled out, looks at your ID, asks to look at your hands, then staples on a ticket with a number on it. NOTE: They were adamant about minors being accompanied by an adult, so plan that accordingly. Next, you wait in the biometrics wing at a seat until your number is called. When your number is called, you proceed to an area in the room. The technician asks for you to approve the info they have on record. Then, he asks you to sign an electronic notepad. Next, he sprays alcohol on your hands and takes 10 prints, and an extra one of your right index finger. After each finger, on the corner it'll say either pass or rejected. Once all of that is set, you sit down to have your picture taken for the EAD. After all of that, you're done and the technician might ask you to fill out a customer service questionnaire and drop it off. Then, you can go home and endure the hardest part: the wait

President Barack Obama said Thursday in an exclusive interview with Agencia Efe, Spain's international news agency, that he had not promised to complete his entire 2008 campaign agenda, including immigration reform, during his first term but rather had said that he would begin working on it. When asked if he regretted not having been able to deliver on immigration reform, the president responded: "No, because what a president does, or what a candidate for president does is you lay out an agenda of where you want to take your country, a vision for how we would strengthen the country and, in my case, my vision has always been how do we create a strong middle class, ladders of opportunity into the middle class." "And the agenda that I put forward," he said, "is one that is designed to make sure that anybody who works hard in this country can make it." Success can be achieved by people in the United States "regardless of race, religion, background," and they can "have access to a good education, ... they can get the skills they need, ... they can find a job that pays the bills, they can own a home, send their kids to college," he said. During the interview, which the president granted after holding a campaign rally in Golden, Colorado, he also said that "if you look at the promises that I made back in 2008, we have achieved many of them." "(We) ended the war in Iraq, saved an auto industry on the brink of extinction, passed comprehensive health care reform which will provide millions ... more people (with) access to health insurance, including nine million Latinos who work so hard and have difficulty getting health insurance on the job, reforming our student loans program so that millions ... more young people are able to get the support that they need." He acknowledged that "there are some things, like comprehensive immigration reform, that we have not got done yet. But in 2008 I didn't promise that I would have everything completed by the end of the first term. I said that we would begin work on all these things." The president also expressed confidence that the agenda that he has presented recently, with the aim of being reelected in November, includes objectives "that we can accomplish." In 2008 then Senator Obama said he would make immigration reform a "top priority" of his first term as President promising to do it his first year of his first term. "We can't wait 20 years from now to do it, we can't 10 years from now to do it, we need to do it by the end of my first term as president of the United States of America," Obama said in 2008. Obama made a similar promise to try for immigration reform in the first year of his second term in an interview with Univision. Obama blamed Republicans for the lack of progress on reform legislation in his first term and pledged he would “try” to bring up the issue in the first year of a second term. Among those realizable goals, Mr. Obama said, are: "bringing ... manufacturing jobs back home, making college more affordable, continu(ing) to reform our schools, rehiring teachers so that we don't have overcrowded classrooms, continuing to develop clean energy that reduces our dependence on foreign oil, ending the war in Afghanistan, these are all things that we can accomplish." "It's in stark contrast to the agenda that's being presented by the other side," the president said, alluding to the campaign platform of his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. Read more: http://latino.foxnew.../#ixzz26Tera922

It doesn't, at least not in my case. It shows the date the applications were received and what the next step will be, also shows some extra information but no sign of the biometrics date. If it has past one or two weeks after your letter of approval you got in the mail, I suggest calling your local office and asking if there's a pending appointment for your case since you are expecting a biometrics appointment and hasn't arrived. I read in other forums about people not getting the letter on time and missed the appointment.

LOLl I know right... Well it is what it is..it wasn't when we wanted it but when we least expected it... . And it's very sad all the people who got deported I put myself in their shoes and I feel their pain...

Of course, I agree with you that we should make the best of it and show that we deserve to be here. I just don't like the reason for why Obama ordered Deferred Action and him basically saying not to be blamed for not completing Immigration reform because he never "promised" it. That to me is like a child going back on their word and saying "Nu-uh! I didn't say I promise"

Ouch, that must hurt. What type of information did the technician ask you to approve?

As I said before, to each their own. I personally like to follow the directions on the letter of biometrics. The main word here is IF, they accept you earlier. Yes, there is a chance of being taken earlier but theres also the chance of being turned away. I personallly, wont be doing that. But, if you do that, I hope they do take you in and wish you good luck with that.

Even if they have the letter in hand, the letter states a specific day and time to go in, why go in and seem over eager and risk being turned away? Ive always believed that rules/laws/regulations/guidelines are there for a reason. They are placed so that they may be followed, not as a decorative purpose.

... I got my appointment for the biometric,funny or say weird cause the office there sending me too is literally around the corner of my house