visa cr1 first step uscis

[Guest]

hi guys  my wife  tells me i dont need photos 5/5 size  to send the package to uscis   ,,,   is this right  , do  i need to send it or not  ?  

[ms_bobdog 501]

You need to give us details of what you are applying for and your situation. What kind of photos are you referring to? Whose photos? Have you studied the instructions for the form you are filing?

[Guest]

On 28/02/2018 at 2:24 AM, ms_bobdog said:

You need to give us details of what you are applying for and your situation. What kind of photos are you referring to? Whose photos? Have you studied the instructions for the form you are filing?

   am aplying for visa cr1 ,  they ask for photos passport  size 2/2   is this right and can  you tellm the other documents  and no i dont know  brother 

[pushbrk 13,267]

55 minutes ago, samirrr said:

   am aplying for visa cr1 ,  they ask for photos passport  size 2/2   is this right and can  you tellm the other documents  and no i dont know  brother 

No passport photo is required from the foreigner at the petition filing stage.  Passport photos of the Petitioner ARE required.  Your question doesn't indicate whether you are petitioner or foreign beneficiary.

[ms_bobdog 501]

I shall (loosely) quote from @pushbrk: You need to become an A student of the instructions for form i130.

 

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-130instr.pdf

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

5 hours ago, pushbrk said:

No passport photo is required from the foreigner at the petition filing stage.  Passport photos of the Petitioner ARE required.  Your question doesn't indicate whether you are petitioner or foreign beneficiary.

Photo's are required for the beneficiary, I had to submit with them with the old I-130 also.

 

 

 

[ms_bobdog 501]

Photos of the beneficiary are not needed if the beneficiary does not reside in the US at the point the i130 is filed  

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

1 hour ago, ms_bobdog said:

Photos of the beneficiary are not needed if the beneficiary does not reside in the US at the point the i130 is filed  

That's not what the USCIS told us when we were about to send in our I-130. We were told that a photograph had to be provided with the application. That a clip above from the current I-130 application form I don't see where it says that's it not needed if the beneficiary lives abroad. 

 

Those photo"s are not cheap especially if it's not the standard format in the beneficiarys country. The US embassy staff in Dublin send applicants to a store across the road who charge around 12 euro a photo. 

 

If a photo is not needed then it should be clearly stated in the checklist above.

[ms_bobdog 501]

The checklist is a little unsettling because it seems like photographs of the beneficiary need to be provided but the instructions say otherwise. I didn't send mine (beneficiary) in and I got my i130 approved just fine. I did contemplate being on the safe side and sending them anyway, but I also wondered how they would view it considering they said to send if I was in the United States (which I wasn't).

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

8 minutes ago, ms_bobdog said:

The checklist is a little unsettling because it seems like photographs of the beneficiary need to be provided but the instructions say otherwise. I didn't send mine (beneficiary) in and I got my i130 approved just fine. I did contemplate being on the safe side and sending them anyway, but I also wondered how they would view it considering they said to send if I was in the United States (which I wasn't).

 

Thanks for that 

 

[ms_bobdog 501]

1 minute ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

Thanks for that 

 

You're welcome! In any case, eventually you would need to submit the beneficiary's photo anyway, so it was only a matter of when you would have to spend that money  

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

1 minute ago, ms_bobdog said:

You're welcome! In any case, eventually you would need to submit the beneficiary's photo anyway, so it was only a matter of when you would have to spend that money  

I was in the US for Christmas so I got some more done while I was over there, much cheaper. Although I should not have went to get them taken after a night on the beer, might get some new ones made to bring to my interview. 

[ms_bobdog 501]

1 minute ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

I was in the US for Christmas so I got some more done while I was over there, much cheaper. Although I should not have went to get them taken after a night on the beer, might get some new ones made to bring to my interview. 

You should get a friend to open a shop next to that 12 euro per photo shop and charge 10 euro each  Seriously, that is crazily expensive! 

[pushbrk 13,267]

16 hours ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

Photo's are required for the beneficiary, I had to submit with them with the old I-130 also.

 

 

 

They were required in the past but not now since the latest version of the I-130 was released, UNLESS THE BENEFICIARY SPOUSE IS IN THE USA AT THE TIME THE PETITION IS FILED.  Regardless of what some checklist says, the actual instructions are very clear on this.