"The embassy can't do it.  I don't know how helpful this will be to you, but many police departments in the US have the electronic fingerprinting machines, and those have the ability in real time to determine whether the fingerprint is acceptable. …"

"We are in the same situation also, life-scan didn't work and ink print didn't either. If you go the route of 2 years residency I was told you couldn’t be out of the country for more than a month. I don’t think this sounds right and our layer didn’t…"