Photo problems at the last minute!!

[vamos 0]

My wife and I are flying down to London tomorrow as our interview is on Thursday. I was just checking over all the documents we need to take when I looked at the photo format specifications at the end of Packet 3. I've really been complacent as I've had two normal UK-sized passport photos ready for this purpose since my medical (I used one from the same batch for it too). Now I know that my photo is not the right size and I don't have time to change it! Does anyone know if they are extremely strict with the photo policy? If so what will happen?

[Minya's wife 24]

My wife and I are flying down to London tomorrow as our interview is on Thursday. I was just checking over all the documents we need to take when I looked at the photo format specifications at the end of Packet 3. I've really been complacent as I've had two normal UK-sized passport photos ready for this purpose since my medical (I used one from the same batch for it too). Now I know that my photo is not the right size and I don't have time to change it! Does anyone know if they are extremely strict with the photo policy? If so what will happen?

Any Walgreens, CVS does passport photos quickly...about a 5-10 minute wait (I believe the cost is $6-8 for two of them). I don't know how much of a difficulty you will have if your photos are not the prescribed size, but as the size requirements of photos is listed somehere on the DOS' website, I would try very hard to make sure I have the right size photos. There was a discussion here on VJ a while back on whether the size of photos matters or not....and the way I understood was that at the petition stage it was not as important if the individual photos are not the US passport size, but that at the consulate/interview, this was something that becomes more of a stringent requirement.

Good luck on your upcoming interview.

-Paula

[vamos 0]

Hi, thanks for the reply, we're flying down from Scotland, we don't have Walgreens or CVS here but I guess we could try one of the places on the list underneath the requirements.

[Minya's wife 24]

Duh! I don't know why I misunderstood and thought you were flying from the US, to go to the interview (like you were visiting your SO here but heading back to the interview).

I seem to remember reading something about there being a place close to the UK consulate that takes quick passport size photos. You may want to look into that....and arrive even earlier for the interview to have the photos taken. Have you posted in the regional UK thread, maybe someone there can give you details.

-P

[vamos 0]

We'll have a whole day before the interview to get it done so I guess I shouldn't panic too much. There's a place in Oxford Street on this list so I'm assuming that'll be the place you've read about, thanks.

Edited May 8, 2007 by vamos

[Yodrak 7]

vamos,

The consulates are generally quite strict about the photos - the photos you give them aren't just for attaching to the file copy of the visa application, they're for making the visa.

Most consulates have a nearby photo shop or 3 that can produce exactly what the consulate wants - it's lucrative business due to the many complacent visa applicants such as yourself.

Yodrak

My wife and I are flying down to London tomorrow as our interview is on Thursday. I was just checking over all the documents we need to take when I looked at the photo format specifications at the end of Packet 3. I've really been complacent as I've had two normal UK-sized passport photos ready for this purpose since my medical (I used one from the same batch for it too). Now I know that my photo is not the right size and I don't have time to change it! Does anyone know if they are extremely strict with the photo policy? If so what will happen?

[no name 1]

Snappy Snaps!!!

[Mononoke28 135]

Yep, Snappy Snaps can take your picture. (I read that in another post).

[JaEnglishGirl 34]

Snappy Snaps

0141 3397879

306 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8AW

A & M Photographics

27 Elm Row

Edinburgh

EH7 4AH

0131-557-8186

Clear Photography

50/5 North Bridge

Edinburgh EH1 1QN

0131-220-2310

Photo Express

7 Melville Terrace

Edinburgh EH9 1ND

Tel: 0131-667-2164

Snappy Snaps

36 Queensferry Street

Edinburgh EH2 4QS

Tel: 0131 225-5554

www.snappysnaps.co.uk

[Captain Oates 911]

snappy snaps are horrendpusly expensive - £30 quid

Gould---these guys are just near the embassy in london and you get 2 photos for 5 quid

50 dollars diff ! I can almost get drunk on that !

http://www.gouldpharmacy.com/Photos.asp

alan

[JaEnglishGirl 34]

snappy snaps are horrendpusly expensive - £30 quid

Gould---these guys are just near the embassy in london and you get 2 photos for 5 quid

50 dollars diff ! I can almost get drunk on that !

http://www.gouldpharmacy.com/Photos.asp

alan

They are NOT £30, where on earth did you get that figure??

2 photos cost £7.99.

[TracyTN 237]

^^ I think Chas' were a little more at Snappy Snaps -- 13 pounds including VAT -- but not 30 pounds!!

[vamos 0]

Thanks everybody, I managed to get the correct photos taken a day before the interview at a little pharmacy just down the road from the embassy.