“Now serving ticket H-5 at counter number 11” says the electronic voice over the loudspeaker. Then we hear a ringing ping, like a finger tapping on a crystal goblet. “Now serving ticket H-6 at counter number 11.” Big Papa and I are at the Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS. We are trying […]
fingerprints
Crime and punishment
“Now serving ticket number H1 at counter 11.” “Now serving ticket number H2 at counter 11.” Big Papa and I were tickets number H21 and H22 respectively as we sat in the waiting room at the Tukwila, Washington office of U.S. Office of Immigration. We’d received our appointments (Big Papa at 8:00 and me at […]