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I submitted my original CHL application back in May, and this last Monday I submitted my Utah CFP application. Both applications required that I submit Fingerprints. So, as I sit here waiting, my mind starts to wonder (which is never a good thing) and it had me thinking about the duplicate fingerprint forms. Lets say that the FBI receives my prints first from Texas and they process them. Then later, they again receive my prints from Utah. Does the FBI automatically redo the fingerprint checking, or since I already had my prints on file from Texas, do they skip the second check?

It seems like when they receive my prints from the Utah application, that their inital scan should immediately come up and match to my existing prints from Texas (assuming Texas get's there first).

Additionally, aside from checking your prints against their database, what additional steps does the FBI do? While those additional steps be required if they find I've already undergone them with my Texas CHL?

The short answer is no. The FBI recieves hundreds of thousands of Fingerprint BG checks per month. A machine scans them and retrieves the data, I doubt if the cards were scanned on the same day that anyone would notice.

The FBI performs 7,000 fingerprint searches per day for various background checks every day:

• DOD, clearances
  Military
  Bank employee
  Police inquiries
  Foster Parents
  CHL

The New Age of Electronic Fingerprint Identification from (http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ident.pdf)
Fingerprints are now processed through the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System. The fingerprints are submitted electronically or by mail, processed on IAFIS, and a response is returned to the contributing agency within two hours or less for electronic criminal fingerprint submissions and twenty-four hours or less for electronic civil fingerprint submissions. Fingerprint processing has been reduced from weeks and months to hours and minutes with IAFIS.

Wow, that's a very interesting statistic. That is alot of fingerprint checking going on per day. Thanks for sharing.