NEXT. STILL GETTING OUR DUCKS IN A ROW.

In Stafford County, fingerprints are taken at the Stafford County Courthouse on Mondays only from 1-3 pm. Ray drove to the courthouse today, walked up to the building but half way up he remembered "no cell phones", walked back to the car and then back to the building, walked through the metal detector, and was directed to sit on a bench.  He was number three in line (no wonder with all of that back and forth!) to get his fingerprints taken.  A Sheriff stepped out into the hallway asking who had the card filled out.  Ray asked if he could get two of the cards, and walked back to the car for his glasses to be able to fill in the blanks (name, social security number, birthday, address, place of employment, height and weight).  Once he had done his exercising for the day (remember he just had gallbladder surgery, and this was a bit taxing haha), he reported that it only took minutes, and he had two cards filled out with his fingerprints.  He picked up two cards for me so that I could leave work at lunchtime one Monday in September to get my fingerprints taken.
The Sheriff told him to have me use moisturizer daily before having the prints taken, since we have read that healthcare professionals tend not to get the greatest prints due to the constant washing of hands.  Our hands are more dry, so moisturizer helps with getting the ink to stick for better prints.  For our Residency Visa, we now have our pension for life letter and the start of our fingerprints.  Keep checking the list twice and scratching the "To Do" items off one at a time.

Ray's prints.