How did you submit pictures with your K1 Visa Application?

[PhDSharp 0]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting ready to send my I-129F form off tomorrow (and I'll readily admit I'm nervous). My question is about how best to include photos that provide evidence of being together. I'm including 10 photos of my fiance and me together over the past 9 months. As of right now, I have all my photos in an envelop, clipped to a paper that explains they are photos that provide proof of my fiance and I being together in the past 2 years. On the back of each photo I've written:

• our names
  
• the date/month/year the photo was taken (on several I couldn't recall the date, so I just wrote the month/year)
  
• the place where the photo was taken (restaurant, opera house, hotel, etc.)
  
• the city and country where the photo was taken
  

Is this good enough? Would it be better if I color copied the photos onto a 8x10 piece of paper and labeled the paper instead?

I'd love to know what some of you did.

I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for the person going through my paperwork. I figure the faster someone can ge through my application, the faster my fiance gets his visa (maybe).

Thanks for the help!

[samirsashasafi 3]

We included a lot of pictures of different trips I took to see my faincee in Spain, (Not sure you need that many) but we included at least some from each trip. In the back of the picture we put the same exact thing you did , Thats it , we did not attach any additional papers to the pics. Just make sure you include the cover letter and follow everything else you need to include as the advice here that is what we did.... Let me know any other questions you may have Good Luck!

[UK-USA-K1 128]

I have just begun the process, and just received my email saying they were sending my case to the CSC today, so I don't know how well they were received, but when I did mine, I had boarding passes and itineraries of each time we met, and I included at least one photo of us together from each of these time frames with date and place written on the back. I guess I'll know if I get an RFE whether this is sufficient or not. Keeping my fingers crossed this whole time will be difficult

Good Luck

[PhDSharp 0]

We included a lot of pictures of different trips I took to see my faincee in Spain, (Not sure you need that many) but we included at least some from each trip. In the back of the picture we put the same exact thing you did , Thats it , we did not attach any additional papers to the pics. Just make sure you include the cover letter and follow everything else you need to include as the advice here that is what we did.... Let me know any other questions you may have Good Luck!

Thank you! I have 1 or 2 from each of our trips together.

I have just begun the process, and just received my email saying they were sending my case to the CSC today, so I don't know how well they were received, but when I did mine, I had boarding passes and itineraries of each time we met, and I included at least one photo of us together from each of these time frames with date and place written on the back. I guess I'll know if I get an RFE whether this is sufficient or not. Keeping my fingers crossed this whole time will be difficult

Good Luck

Thanks. I've included boarding passes, itineraries, baggage tickets, and passport stamps from our trips, as well as receipts from his trips to visit me. (When I'm with him he pays for everything, so I don't have receipts from my trips to Norway, unfortunately.)

Did you organize by trip or by document type? In other words, did you include pictures of you together from trip #1 with boarding passes/itineraries from trip #1? Or did you keep all of your pictures together, separate from the travel documents?

[embord 2]

I printed about 12 pictures and labeled my pictures like you did, put them in a ziploc bag, and stapled the ziploc bag to a piece of white paper with the words "Evidence of meeting in person in the last two years and ongoing relationship" typed on it. I made sure the pictures showed us with different friends and family members on both sides. I also included a copy of passport stamps, boarding passes, flight itineraries, hotel reservations, and a work contract proving I worked in the same city as my fiance for two years. Our visa was approved without any RFEs. Good luck!

Edited February 12, 2013 by embord

[Boggy1974 124]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting ready to send my I-129F form off tomorrow (and I'll readily admit I'm nervous). My question is about how best to include photos that provide evidence of being together. I'm including 10 photos of my fiance and me together over the past 9 months. As of right now, I have all my photos in an envelop, clipped to a paper that explains they are photos that provide proof of my fiance and I being together in the past 2 years. On the back of each photo I've written:

• our names
  
• the date/month/year the photo was taken (on several I couldn't recall the date, so I just wrote the month/year)
  
• the place where the photo was taken (restaurant, opera house, hotel, etc.)
  
• the city and country where the photo was taken
  

Is this good enough? Would it be better if I color copied the photos onto a 8x10 piece of paper and labeled the paper instead?

I'd love to know what some of you did.

I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for the person going through my paperwork. I figure the faster someone can ge through my application, the faster my fiance gets his visa (maybe).

Thanks for the help!

We printed all our pictures into a collage on two 8x10 photo paper. We went to CVS (Walgreens & Wal-mart both have this service too)and the attendant at photo center inserted my thumb drive, selected all the pictures I wanted on the screen and made them into two 8x10 collage. After they were printed, I then wrote by hand the names, dates & places at the back. The advantage of this is that it fits in or slides in perfectly with all your other papers.

Good luck to you on your journey!

[PhDSharp 0]

Thanks everyone for your input and advice!

And good luck to you as you wait, as well!

[baron555 934]

Maybe too late to this party....but...

Way back when, all our photos were from a digital camera (whose aren't?).

I had prints made at the local Walmart.

I inserted the same photos into a Word document, about four per page, and typed in a short description for each. Then onto a blank sheet, I affixed the same real photos from the Walmart Photo lab into plastic bags, with labels affixes to the backs with the same info, names, dates, etc, as was written on the first page. I placed these photos into a baggie and wrote the basic info on the back of each photo, name/date.

[Moomin 292]

Yeah, doesn't need to be fancy printed pictures. We did that, though. Put 4 per normal sized page. That left a space underneath each picture where handwritten names/dates+year/locations could be added(if not on the back of the pictures. I was assuming it would be faster and easier on the eyes that would look at the petition.

I liked to keep the same format for everything submitted. Passport pictures were put in a tiny bag stapled to a standard-sized paper as well, and on upper corner simply put what proof/accessories/treasures the page contained for the UScis humans.

[LordMandrake 1]

What I did was make a print of every photo we had together, I didn't stop at 10, I buried them in photographs. All labeled with time, date, names, locations, everything but what we had for breakfast that day. I put them in chronological order in a ziplock bag, clipped to a paper in the packet I sent in. I think the total was about 45 photos

[afoyoswa 178]

All of our photos were digital, so I arranged them 4-5 to a page in a Word document, which allowed me to include captions/headings.

I organized the evidence from our in-person meetings into a section called "Evidence of in-person meeting within 2 years" and then grouped all of the documentation from each trip into its own section, starting with the page(s) of photos printed on cardstock (heading: "Trip 1: <dates>", with captions on each photo listing the location, date, and people pictured). After the photo pages, I included the itinerary, boarding passes, and any receipts/bus tickets/bank statements/other transactions for that trip.

I had another separate section called "Evidence of ongoing relationship" with the phone records, emails, video chat screenshots, letters/cards, affidavits from friends, etc. but this was for a difficult embassy necessitating front-loading.

[juanchopancho 5]

All I have are digital photos. Is it ok to print out the photos with a color printer on standard paper. The photos come out great, just not sure if they will accept it.

[thongd4me 69]

If you're asking for the actual process, I took from 20-30 digital pics

and used photoshop to display them on 8-1/2 x 11" sheets of plain paper

which I used the color printer at the office to run off. I had around 6-8 pics

per page, depending on how I cropped & arranged them on the page.

I'm sure some people might go to Walgreens or CVS and order a lot of

prints too - that will work as well. If I did that I would include them in a

separate envelope inside the folder of documents, with both of your names.

[ckurt 23]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting ready to send my I-129F form off tomorrow (and I'll readily admit I'm nervous). My question is about how best to include photos that provide evidence of being together. I'm including 10 photos of my fiance and me together over the past 9 months. As of right now, I have all my photos in an envelop, clipped to a paper that explains they are photos that provide proof of my fiance and I being together in the past 2 years. On the back of each photo I've written:

• our names
  
• the date/month/year the photo was taken (on several I couldn't recall the date, so I just wrote the month/year)
  
• the place where the photo was taken (restaurant, opera house, hotel, etc.)
  
• the city and country where the photo was taken
  

Is this good enough? Would it be better if I color copied the photos onto a 8x10 piece of paper and labeled the paper instead?

I'd love to know what some of you did.

I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for the person going through my paperwork. I figure the faster someone can ge through my application, the faster my fiance gets his visa (maybe).

Thanks for the help!

Thats also what I did, not sure if its enough or not since I haven't got my NOA2 but I believe it should be enough Good luck

[UK-USA-K1 128]

Thank you! I have 1 or 2 from each of our trips together.

Thanks. I've included boarding passes, itineraries, baggage tickets, and passport stamps from our trips, as well as receipts from his trips to visit me. (When I'm with him he pays for everything, so I don't have receipts from my trips to Norway, unfortunately.)

Did you organize by trip or by document type? In other words, did you include pictures of you together from trip #1 with boarding passes/itineraries from trip #1? Or did you keep all of your pictures together, separate from the travel documents?

I am not the most ummmm well I'm not really a good organizer. I did the best I could, but I'm not a great example. I just basically made three envelopes, one with the forms filled out and signed, one with all our documentation (boarding passes etc.) and one with pictures (including the passport style) In each envelope I put an index sheet explaining what was in each. I used binder clips to bind the three envelopes and outside those envelopes I made a detail sheet with what was in each numbered envelope so the processor could go to whichever envelope for whatever they were looking for. I then put them all together into a larger envelope and mailed them in. So, the pictures aren't in the same envelope as the documentation, but there is a picture of us together corresponding to each documented trip and this is listed in the indexes.

I'm still very early in the process (I put them in the mail a week ago today) but I did get notification that my file was accepted and sent to the California center for Processing. Hopefully no RFE's will be required, but if they are I'll post that in these forums as well.

Best of Luck to you