BEWARE! If you have not gone to your biometrics yet....

[J.J. & Diana 0]

BEWARE! If you have not gone to your biometrics yet....

... that they will take a picture there and that picture will be the picture on your naturalization certificate for all time! Sometimes they ask you to take out anything in your hair and sometimes earrings... sooo keep that in mind if you want a nice photo at your biometrics appointment that will end up on your certificate!

And btw, my wife Diana is finally a citizen!!!!

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

True.

But . . . the only time you'll show the CoN is when applying for your first passport which should be almost immediately after becoming a US citizen. Thereafter the CoN goes into the bank safe, hopefully to never see the light of day again. To make sure that's the case, spend the extra $25 for a passport card in addition to the passport book.

[NickD 203]

Wife is fussy about stuff like that, stepdaughter couldn't care less. Her photo is terrible and so is using an ink jet printer on cheap certificate paper. But it did get her US passport where I took her photo. Now if the DOS goes that route with cheap reproductions, that may be of concern to women. Maybe even some men.

[Boyinflorida 2]

I think it really depends on your local office what picture it will be on the Certificate of Naturalization. In some offices they make you sign the photos you have already submitted with you application and that's the one that goes on the certificate. I know that's what they do it Miami because I have friends that recently got naturalized.

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

True.

But . . . the only time you'll show the CoN is when applying for your first passport which should be almost immediately after becoming a US citizen. Thereafter the CoN goes into the bank safe, hopefully to never see the light of day again. To make sure that's the case, spend the extra $25 for a passport card in addition to the passport book.

Hi Bob as I sit at my desk cracking up at your reply but have to agree with you 100% -- I have not touched my "certificate" since 1990 after I walked out the passport office -- and it's in a safe place.

[Mononoke28 137]

I think it really depends on your local office what picture it will be on the Certificate of Naturalization. In some offices they make you sign the photos you have already submitted with you application and that's the one that goes on the certificate. I know that's what they do it Miami because I have friends that recently got naturalized.

That's interesting because my husband's picture is the one they took during biometrics, which is printed on his naturalization certificate. The lady who handed it to him during his oath ceremony last month told us they now do this because the picture they used to glue on the old certificates would often fall off which made the certificates invalid.

So, if you care about your picture, just make sure you're nice and purty for your biometrics appointment because chances are that's the picture that'll be printed on your certicate. But it doesn't really matter because it still comes out a bit dark and blurry.

Diana

[Dr_LHA 3]

I'd like to remind people that its the Citizenship that's important, and not your personal vanity. Also, everyone looks bad in passport photos and IDs.

[J.J. & Diana 0]

my wife's is a photo glued to the paper. lame. don't know why they can't print it.. it's not like it's... important or anything....

btw, when we get a passport for my wife, we have to send the certificate with the application. I'm in Tucson, as so far as i know... there is no where to get a 'while you wait' passport so you can get the certificate back right away.

[RussianGirl 0]

Congratulations to Diana and thank you for the info!