Passport Size Photos

[Parrish77 3]

Hi,

I am sponsoring my husband and right now we are waiting on his i130, we are using this time to get everything we will need ready for the next stage. Yesterday I asked him to go and get his photos taken, he only got 2 instead of 4. My questions is this, do the photos have to be exactly identical? Can he go back on Mon and get 2 more or should I send him back to have 4 more done? These pics are not cheap but I don't want to do anything that could cause a problem down the line...

Thx!

[The Mean Lady 604]

Well you'll need a bunch for your medical, then i think 3 or 4 for interview, so I don't think 4 is enough in itself.

You need 6 or 7, I believe (depending on what your medical requires and honestly I don't remember what interview wanted, I just gave them 4)

PS: I would make sure the ones for your interview all match, but I would not be picky on the medical ones.

Oh thank god you're from canada.

Okay, so yeah for your medical you need 3 or 4 depending on the doctor.

[Parrish77 3]

Great! Thanks so much! So to be on the safe side I will get him to get at least 6 more, jeez...those little pics are not cheap.

[The Mean Lady 604]

The shoppers I went to was nice and printed me out an extra copy of the first set at no cost.

Maybe you'll get lucky.

Otherwise, I scanned and reprinted mine from walmart.ca for the medical ones.

I used the professional ones for the interview.

[sumit381 2]

I took my wife's photo and got them sized from www.epassportphoto.com as suggested in Saylin's guide. Then I printed a whole bunch of them for less than a dollar. The ones they do at my local pharmacy is just with a cheap point n shoot camera. I can do the same if not better with my dslr :-) and print them for 19cents each instead of $8 for 2. just follow the photo guidelines posted on the travel.state.gov site. Epassportphoto is great!

Edited July 21, 2013 by sumit381

[NikLR 13,230]

I could never get a white wall to work for me for that! (it's what I got for living in a basement) But if you have a white or off white wall, epassportphoto or the guide on the NVC website is awesome.

[Ozz777 23]

The state department website also has a photo cropping tool which I used for all three of us (my wife, my son and myself). Took the photos at home, enhanced in Picasa, cropped at the below link, and printed at home on good photo paper. Never had a problem with any of them, plus they are saved on the computer to print again at any time. And we didn't have a white wall, we just hung a sheet in a bright area, and sat my son in his high chair with me holding a sheet behind him and tucked into his chair, while my wife got his attention and took the pic. The only thing the lady at the embassy said about it was, "he has amazing blue eyes!"

http://travel.state.gov/_res/flash/cropper/FIG_cropper.html

Edited July 22, 2013 by Ozz777

[The Mean Lady 604]

Just make sure that when you print your own, they are supposed to be matte.

My medical ones were glossy because it doesn't matter, but for the actual interview, I gave them my matte ones.

[cujodu 15]

The instructions provide guidelines. There is no requirement that they be taken at a professional visa photo shop.

They:

1. Must be within 30 days

2. White background

3. glossy finish

4. unretouched (no enhancing or other digital changes)

5. face should be 1 inch from chin to top of hair

no glasses is a good idea.

[The Mean Lady 604]

The instructions provide guidelines. There is no requirement that they be taken at a professional visa photo shop.

They:

1. Must be within 30 days

2. White background

3. glossy finish

4. unretouched (no enhancing or other digital changes)

5. face should be 1 inch from chin to top of hair

no glasses is a good idea.

LOL I just had to read the instructions again.

I must be mixing up my matte/glossy

[DeniseFrance 14]

LOL I just had to read the instructions again.

I must be mixing up my matte/glossy

exactly!

I use photoshop myself and have them printed at Walgreens on Dated Photo paper. not regular photo paper though, the real stuff.

you can fit 2 on a 4 by 6 and cost about a dollar for 6 photos.

I cut them out myself but only for people who are skilled like myself.......

head size and eye height are important.

[The Mean Lady 604]

I'm an avid scrapbooker so I have a paper cutter heehee