Passport Style Photos

[hearsay 1]

Hello,

Just curious as to why they ask for these photos. I know when you get your perm res card it's for the picture on your card. But why for Citizenship? Just to see what I look like?

[NickD 202]

Hello,

Just curious as to why they ask for these photos. I know when you get your perm res card it's for the picture on your card. But why for Citizenship? Just to see what I look like?

Wife liked that option, could actually chose from a series of photos and pick out the one she liked the best, they glue that photo to your certificate and stamp a side of it with the USCIS seal, but understand some of those are laminated on. But no big deal, her certificate after the SS and US passport is buried away and we will probably never look at it again, completely done with SS, and DOS just wants your old passport. Could buy a frame and hang it, but would have to do the same with my US birth certificate. That was also buried for a long time until we had to deal with the USCIS, it's buried again.

[mattr 0]

Hello,

Just curious as to why they ask for these photos. I know when you get your perm res card it's for the picture on your card. But why for Citizenship? Just to see what I look like?

They keep 1 for your file, and glue the other one on your certificate.

Mattr.

[lucyrich 20]

Yep, one gets put on your certificate of naturalization.

Note that everywhere else in the process, for the visa, green card, US Passport, etc., when they put your photo on a document, they scan the photo you give them and embed it into the document via the same printing process that produces the rest of the document. Not so with the naturalization certificate. They glue it to the document and then emboss a seal across it. I know this because I gave them a photo printed on an inkjet printer, where you can hold the photo in the light and see weird reflections off the surface that betray the fact that it's an inkjet printout. The photo on the naturalization certificate is exactly the same piece of paper I gave them from our home inkjet printer.

I wish I'd know that before. For photos used earlier in the process, I'd gone to a photo store and had them print the picture using their fancy optical printers to produce the photo on real photo paper. That not only looks nice, but it's probably more long-lasting than an inkjet print. But since they always seemed to scan the photo and reprint it, I didn't figure it was worth the effort this time. It's especially annoying, since the other documents are only good for a few months or years, (well, the green card for up to ten years), while the naturalization certificate never expires and may be useful for a lifetime.

So give them a good quality photo that won't fade, on good quality paper, since it's going to go onto your naturalization certificate.

[hearsay 1]

Thanks for the answers, good to know. We usually have them done at Kinkos.