Fingerprints... Check!

Today we drove out to Sacramento to get our "Live Scan" fingerprints done. Whenever I (Tania) get fingerprinted I find it so fascinating... maybe I'm a geek, I don't know... but the way that everyone's fingerprint patterns are so unique that there's no possibility of an exact match with someone else, and how technology can track is just amazing! It's crazy how a bunch of squiggly lines on your finger can be so significant to our criminal justice system.

Fingerprinting is part of the home study process. Potential adoptive parents are checked for a criminal background through both the FBI and Department of Justice databases. Interestingly, an international check isn't required, even though we've lived overseas. Though we don't have anything to "find" through an international check, it's a little disturbing that they don't require one... don't you think they would want to check out people who have lived overseas for long periods of time to see what they were up to?? Hmm... hopefully that comes together soon and gets into the requirements somehow.

Here's a snapshot of our "fingers" at the fingerprint office. :)
We're off to Cambodia on Sunday!