Cr1- interview- How to present pictures (merged)

[Floridaman78 0]

So my husband lives in South Africa . I am the US citizen . I had a question on how to prepare pictures for the interview . We are only 8 months into USCIS review . So we got time .

 

we file June 12 of last year and prior to filing we physically met 6 times already. I flew to SA.

After filing we met two more times. Once  In SA and then  we met up in Thailand for honeymoon.

 

when preparing for interview should I prepare the pictures in order by trip 1-8  or does it matter  or Just put marriage pictures and honeymoon pictures first?I am getting mix answers. Some people say you want to show how your relationship evolved. Others say you want to show the importance first . The first time when we met physically we were only friends On trip 1.

 

other question

 

I thought about putting all pics in a whole doc and just clip them all together. Instead of putting them in album is that fine ?

 

Any suggestions 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Floridaman78

[Crazy Cat 41,806]

Don't overthink the small stuff.  You don't need a lot of pictures.  The CO won't have time to look through an album or even more than a couple pages.   Concentrate on quality, not quantity. 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Lil bear 4,181]

9 minutes ago, Floridaman78 said:

So my husband lives in South Africa . I am the US citizen . I had a question on how to prepare pictures for the interview . We are only 8 months into USCIS review . So we got time .

 

we file June 12 of last year and prior to filing we physically met 6 times already. I flew to SA.

After filing we met two more times. Once  In SA and then  we met up in Thailand for honeymoon.

 

when preparing for interview should I prepare the pictures in order by trip 1-8  or does it matter  or Just put marriage pictures and honeymoon pictures first?I am getting mix answers. Some people say you want to show how your relationship evolved. Others say you want to show the importance first . The first time when we met physically we were only friends On trip 1.

 

other question

 

I thought about putting all pics in a whole doc and just clip them all together. Instead of putting them in album is that fine ?

 

Any suggestions 

 

 

 

 

 

Rarely do IO look at pictures. Stronger evidence is boarding passes, entry stamps from time together  Go for quality over quantity.  6 photos per page , location and date, 2-3 pages .. 

[Floridaman78 0]

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

Don't overthink the small stuff.  You don't need a lot of pictures.  The CO won't have time to look through an album or even more than a couple pages. 

So just put important pics first is fine ?

[Lil bear 4,181]

Just now, Floridaman78 said:

So just put important pics first is fine ?

Quality evidence first .. pictures aren't quality  evidence compared to some other documents i mentioned 

[top_secret 2,402]

We just made a few pages like a photo collage with different themes, typed a few notes over relevant pictures and printed it all on a color LaserJet printer.  Our goal was not so much to document specific details but rather to show happy smiley faces together in a wide variety of circumstances, places and times.  Anyone could casually glance at those pages for 10 seconds and surmise that there's a genuine happy family together.

[Crazy Cat 41,806]

2 minutes ago, Floridaman78 said:

So just put important pics first is fine ?

A FEW important pictures are more than enough. Order of pictures  is irrelevant. 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Floridaman78 0]

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

A FEW important pictures are more than enough. Order of pictures  is irrelevant. 

Thank you 

[Floridaman78 0]

4 minutes ago, top_secret said:

We just made a few pages like a photo collage with different themes, typed a few notes over relevant pictures and printed it all on a color LaserJet printer.  Our goal was not so much to document specific details but rather to show happy smiley faces together in a wide variety of circumstances, places and times.  Anyone could casually glance at those pages for 10 seconds and surmise that there's a genuine happy family together.

Did you use a app for the photo collage ?

[Crazy Cat 41,806]

2 minutes ago, Floridaman78 said:

Did you use a app for the photo collage ?

I just copied and pasted a few per page using Microsoft Word.

[Floridaman78 0]

Just now, Crazy Cat said:

I just copied and pasted a few per page using Microsoft Word.

Gotcha 

[Floridaman78 0]

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

I just copied and pasted a few per page using Microsoft Word.

I guess what I am going to do is put marriage photos first, with the celebration  with family then pics from  honeymoon in Thailand . Then add after that 

[top_secret 2,402]

Just now, Floridaman78 said:

Did you use a app for the photo collage ?

I used Libre Office Writer https://www.libreoffice.org/ since it was easy to drag and size photos into a collage and write over them.  I've heard of others using PowerPoint which may be more mainstream.  Just save it as a PDF and print it in color. 3 or 4 printed pages with a bunch of little pictures is much less cumbersome and may make a more immediate visual impact than any kind of album.

[Floridaman78 0]

1 minute ago, top_secret said:

I used Libre Office Writer https://www.libreoffice.org/ since it was easy to drag and size photos into a collage and write over them.  I've heard of others using PowerPoint which may be more mainstream.  Just save it as a PDF and print it in color. 3 or 4 printed pages with a bunch of little pictures is much less cumbersome and may make a more immediate visual impact than any kind of album.

That’s very true. 

[iwannaplay54 985]

How to prepare pictures for spouse interview:

Leave them at home

Passport stamps and boarding passes and trip itineraries carry more weight.

Edited January 6, 2023 by iwannaplay54