Applicant Fingerprint Background Checks

Contact Information

Address:

4491 Cerrillos Road
Santa Fe, NM 87507

Contact: Sonia Abeyta
Phone: 505-827-9191
Email: applicant.afis@state.nm.us

DPS Applicant Fingerprint Background Check Fees
Electronic Submission (Governmental Agencies Only)	$33
Manual Submission (Governmental Agencies Only)	$44

DPS Applicant Fingerprint Background Check unit is able to accept cashier’s checks, money orders, credit and debit cards only. POs/Cash will not be accepted and will be returned to the submitting agency.

DPS Applicant Fingerprint Background Check Procedures:

• Two (2) fingerprint cards are required to be submitted.
• Cards are processed in the order they are received.
• Your first point of contact to check on the status of any delay of your application should be the agency where you initially submitted your application and prints.
• The time delay between the time your prints are received by your sponsoring agency and when they are submitted electronically or manually to DPS rests entirely with the submitting agency.
• Once prints are submitted to DPS electronically, and your prints are of sufficient quality, under normal circumstances, your agency will receive a response from DPS within 24-48 hours, and from the FBI within 48-72 hours (weekends excluded).
• Prints submitted to DPS and the FBI as manual submissions typically receive responses within 7-14 working days.

Delays in Applicant Fingerprint Background Check responses to submitting agency may be due to:

Rejections caused by:

• Incomplete application information
• No payment or insufficient payment
• Low quality prints

For questions/inquiries/comments, please refer to the Applicant Fingerprint Background Checks contact information.