Organizing Photos

[Boulder Eric 0]

Any tips on how to best organize and present photos sent with the ROC paperwork?

We're planning on including 10-15 with our documentation - a good assortment over the last two years, including trips we've taken and times out with friends, family, etc.

[Otto 83]

We sent a single page with 4 photos (only because we felt somehow obligated to). I'm not sure I'd send 10-15. The evidence is what really matters. Can bring the photos to the interview if one gets scheduled.

If you are going to send photos - I'd suggest what we did. Copy/Paste several to a single page (or pages) and attach them that way (with some sort of subtitle description of each either typed or hand written).

[v333k 59]

Any tips on how to best organize and present photos sent with the ROC paperwork?

We're planning on including 10-15 with our documentation - a good assortment over the last two years, including trips we've taken and times out with friends, family, etc.

We sent them by the most recent being first.

[lucyrich 20]

We taped them onto standard sized sheets of paper, with printed captions/descriptions handwritten on the paper. Then we made color photocopies of them, which, though they wouldn't win any art prizes, reproduced well enough to be seen clearly. We included just the color copies, with two holes punched in the top, all secured with an acco clip (we handled the color copies just like we handled all of the other paperwork we submitted).

Our method guaranteed that loose photos wouldn't come out of the package and get lost, and guaranteed that the examiner could read our descriptions of the photos.

As to whether to include photos, or how many, that's a whole separate issue. We included a few, because they demonstrated that we travelled together (our photos were taken in front of various recognizable landmarks that were distant from one another), and, unlike lots of pages of printed text, it shouldn't take an officer long to browse through a dozen photos. If you know of a particular point which you believe your photos establish, and if you think fraudulent couples wouldn't easily be able to get photos like yours, then go ahead and include some. If they're just pictures of the two of you together in an apartment, that may not establish very much except the fact that the two of you were together at somebody's apartment.

[vonso 0]

Any tips on how to best organize and present photos sent with the ROC paperwork?

We're planning on including 10-15 with our documentation - a good assortment over the last two years, including trips we've taken and times out with friends, family, etc.

We purchased photo albums, but also brought a photo album for photos to give them. we wanted to put an extra step forward. we took about 500 pictures..lol , but in the end we gave them 30.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I printed out the ones that were grouped together and inserted them in with the documents to which they related - ie, a visit to his family's side for Christmas had travel arrangements, boarding passes and luggage receipts and in the same section, a family photo with all of his extended family including us and photos of each of us with our grandchildren; the same for a visit to my family for Christmas with similar photographs attached; microchip documents listing both of us as our cats' contacts were accompanied with photographs of us and the cats all together; an invitation to a gathering of people at our home was accompanied with a photograph of all of us together at the party saluting the camera - things like that. I put the photographs in context with the documents so they could see where they fit and supported the documents. The photographs were all dated and described.

Edited January 26, 2010 by Kathryn41