Pictures as evidence

[aussiewench 9]

this just isn't worth argueing over. anybody that only submits photos doesn't deserve to get approved and anyone who doesn't submit photos is just doing the bare minimum (which i realize is the method that some people here swear by)

Bare minumum has got nothing to do with it. Each petition is unique and each petition will require a different level of evidence in order to complete the picture in the minds eye of the adjudicator. But thats a difficult concept also to get through to someone that sent the BEST petition that USCIS has ever seen

[kaydee457 13]

this just isn't worth argueing over. anybody that only submits photos doesn't deserve to get approved and anyone who doesn't submit photos is just doing the bare minimum (which i realize is the method that some people here swear by)

Sometimes it's clear to me that some of you just don't bother to read all the posts in a particular thread.

In no way have I, or anyone else for that matter ever suggested that anyone not submit a photo if they have one.

What we did was to educate readers as to the relative weight, importance and worth of such evidence.

If *you* choose to define this discussion as an argument then so be it.

[john_and_marlene 162]

ok what about a picture of 2 people holding a newspaper? how is that for rock solid photographic evidence? picture are very good evidence except for the fact that you need to prove that they were taken within 2 years of petition application. i mean what do plane tickets and hotel receipts really prove? that you were in the same city as your fiance?

I thought about this "holding up a newspaper" as evidence of the time of meeting. It's not so rock solid. In reviewing the denial appeals, many of them ask for evidence of meeting within the 2 years prior to the application. I saw many appeals where they traveled subsequent to the denial to try to satisfy the requirement and the denial was upheld since the meeting was not prior to the filing of the application. If photos alone (holding a newspaper headline) were adequate evidence, it would be possible for them to get an older newspaper and claim that their meeting was prior to the filing. Holding a newpaper only indicates that the photo was taken some time after the date of that newspaper ... I could actually be years after.