Applicants filing for a reentry permit need to be physically present when the application is filed. Thereafter, a biometric appointment is scheduled where the applicant goes to a fingerprinting office to provide fingerprint scans. At this point, we're hoping that applicants who were present in the USA at the time of filing the reentry permit application but who left and were outside the USA when the biometrics appointmnent was scheduled, will be permitted to provide their biometrics abroad. Being able to do so would save time and money given that the applicant wouldn't have to fly back to the USA. We're waiting to see if Guangzhou will allow this, but we did receive unofficial word that the office in Guangzhou did receive a biometrics machine so we're keeping our fingers crossed.
