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If anyone has had to do this could you please PM me, I have a few ?'s.
thanks
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We haven't been ok'd for anything. We don't even know if it's possible. Our agency told us to look into having it done at the Embassy. But the agency doesn't have a clue on this (perhaps someone should've told us this before he left a few wks ago)
It is in the green zone, so we're not sure who DH has to talk to. They just got there and you really don't want to dump this on the higher ups just yet.
DH has TS Clearance, and is in Baghdad, so technically it shouldn't be too hard.
But with everything else in the military, when it's seems an easy thing to do, someone has to go and make is a big PIA nightmare to accomplish.
If he cant have it done there we're gonna be 6 mos behind til he can get something done on R&R.
We had prints mailed through S3 shop but by the time we got everything figured out and had them back in order to submit them to our worker, it was time for R&R and he just did them locally. Depending on which step you are at the timing might work out similarly or you might be able to do it with help from the Rear D S3 shop where you are. We all know that Rear D depends on luck of the draw though! PM me if you have any other more personal questions I might be able to help with.
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We also had to wait until my husband got back from his TDY. I know that it may have been possible for him to do his federal scan; but I don't know if your dh could do it from Iraq. You could possibly do the fingerprint cards that you mail to the FBI. But he'd have to go to a facility to have the prints done; assuming they don't have the scanning thing. Can you check with the FBI? I don't think most agencies would be helpful with this since they probably don't deal with it often. And for some reason, my husband HAD to get his prints done in Ohio--not Florida where he was TDY. I don't understand why it mattered but we just went along with it. Goodluck and pray your dh comes home safe and soon.
Mom2J
I know that when we did it, we got our fingerprints done with the SFs. (Security Forces does have to do this on a regular basis as well as the MPs.) Try them.
Mom2J
See this is what I don't get. We were told by our agency that we can only get prints done at Immigration or if allowed, at the Embassy in Iraq.
My DH is Intel and his prints are on federal file, but the agency told us that we could not obtain these through DH's resources, that they would have to be redone at said agencies..
I wonder if it's country specific where the prints originate from.
We're going through a country that as I'm told has some pretty strict guidlines, Poland.
I don't know, the agency doesn't seem too sure about dealing with deployed military when we were told from the beginning, they would have no problems accomodating our situation.
Now, they don't have answers. That's an awful lot of money to lay into a company that is making us get those answers.
I'm more than a bit peeved.
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Cjmeck
Our SF squadron here in Ohio refused to do prints unless they were for a government purpose. Just thought I'd mention that since it was a brick wall for us.
Mom2J
This is because you were in the states. Being overseas, is a different story. Our entire family had theirs done with the SFs.
Mom2J