fingerprints yikes

[Morgana]

So I have to get an FBI background check...
and for that I need to be fingerprinted...
and for that I need to make what's basically an all-day trip to the nearest big city (Phoenix, yuck)...
and if you get them done electronically, the background check goes about 10x faster...
but I can't get mine done electronically because I don't have enough fingerprints left!
OMG I feel like a vampire or something!!! I flunked my fingerprint test!!!
I never heard of that before but apparently it's common when you get old.
So I paid extra and got the paper ones. Which means that I have to mail them. Which makes me nervous because the Post Office has been forking up so much lately. (If I want FedEx it's another day trip to the city.)
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It's all for a retirement visa application to the Dominican Republic. I finally took the plunge, hired a lawyer, etc. Hopefully in the long run it will be very peaceful, relaxing, and inexpensive, but the next six months look like they will be paperwork hell. The cost of LIVING there might be low but the cost of GETTING there, not so much. I'm already having the opportunity to talk to a lot of 'crats, what a joy.
Apologies for dissing Phoenix if there are any Phoenicians in the house. I'm sure it's a fine place but that's a lllllllllot of asphalt.
Thanks for listening to me whine.

 

[bullfrog !]

So I have to get an FBI background check...
and for that I need to be fingerprinted...
and for that I need to make what's basically an all-day trip to the nearest big city (Phoenix, yuck)...
and if you get them done electronically, the background check goes about 10x faster...
but I can't get mine done electronically because I don't have enough fingerprints left!
OMG I feel like a vampire or something!!! I flunked my fingerprint test!!!
I never heard of that before but apparently it's common when you get old.
So I paid extra and got the paper ones. Which means that I have to mail them. Which makes me nervous because the Post Office has been forking up so much lately. (If I want FedEx it's another day trip to the city.)
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It's all for a retirement visa application to the Dominican Republic. I finally took the plunge, hired a lawyer, etc. Hopefully in the long run it will be very peaceful, relaxing, and inexpensive, but the next six months look like they will be paperwork hell. The cost of LIVING there might be low but the cost of GETTING there, not so much. I'm already having the opportunity to talk to a lot of 'crats, what a joy.
Apologies for dissing Phoenix if there are any Phoenicians in the house. I'm sure it's a fine place but that's a lllllllllot of asphalt.
Thanks for listening to me whine.

Been there and done that as in paper ink prints several times. Always been quick, easy and inconvenient! Lol!!!

 

[vanbrat]

I have to do this every few years. Pain in the butt, but it's what keeps a few of the really bad guys from even trying to get a job with very venerable kids. And yea I am due and a bit late now getting this years done. It means I have to take a day off and go over town and deal with town and paperwork and UGH

 

[rruff]

So I have to get an FBI background check...
....It's all for a retirement visa application to the Dominican Republic.

The DR requires an FBI background check?

 

[Gr8ful]

Congrats & Good Luck on your upcoming move!

 

[Gr8ful]

I'm curious why you chose the DR where the Homicide rate is 3X what the US is & it has a

Danger level: 3 - Travel with high caution warning?

 

[INTJohn]

Get yourself a misdemeanor arrest. They print you 4 free……
jus sayin
bch bum jonny

 

[twomountainlions]

Lol so many countries now require FBI background check from Americans, soon probably all of them will, and all 30 year old expunged arrests for a bar fight will be on it!

 

[Morgana]

The DR requires an FBI background check?

They require a national-level check of your police record, for USians that's the FBI.
It's actually easier than trying to get state or local checks from the zillion places I've lived.
Would have been really easy if I didn't have vampire fingerprints!

Basically they want you to prove you're not a criminal or diseased or broke. I'm pretty sure almost every country has *something* like that. DR is pretty average as far as I can tell. A little harder on the front end maybe, a little easier in the long run. Not the cheapest, not the most expensive. Every country has different little surprises, and some of the cheapest to live in are the most expensive to get initially set up in.

It's going to be a bit of a slog but I'm sure it will be fine. Promising myself a virgin piña colada WITH umbrella in a beachside bar with a merengue band when it's all done.