Digital Colour Image

[stevenkasi]

I am in the process of applying for a Canadian citizenship certificate for my son who was born outside Canada and currently resides outside Canada.The online application requires One digital photo and below are the specifications
Canadian citizenship certificate

• Final frame size of the photo must be 50mm x 70mm.
• Upload a colour digital photo taken by a commercial photographer (We don't accept black and white photos).
• Scanned photos are not accepted.

Is it possible to upload a hard copy digital photo online without scanning it.If yes , how is that done?
Thanks

 

[hawk39]

You don't submit the application online; you can fill in the fields on the computer because it is downloaded as a fillable PDF, but you have to physically print it out, assemble it into a package with the other required documents, and mail it to them if you live in the US or Canada, or bring it to a Canadian embassy if you live outside of the US or Canada.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/application-citizenship-certificate-adults-minors.html

 

[stevenkasi]

Application for citizen certificate gives you two options. Paper and online option.
Under the document checklist section , it indicates that for paper applications 2 photographs are required, for the online applications , digital colour image. See the link below for the document checklist
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/pdf/kits/citizen/cit0014e-2.pdf

 

[hawk39]

Application for citizen certificate gives you two options. Paper and online option.
Under the document checklist section , it indicates that for paper applications 2 photographs are required, for the online applications , digital colour image. See the link below for the document checklist
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/pdf/kits/citizen/cit0014e-2.pdf

Oh, I see. Apologies, paper used to be the only way to apply when I did it.

I don't have an online profile with IRCC, but I would guess that you would ask the photographer to save the pictures on recordable media, like a SD card or flash drive. Then in the section where you are to provide the picture, you would upload them from the media, or from the file on your computer if you chose to save them on your hard drive, as if you were adding an attachment to an e-mail.

 

[stevenkasi]

Thanks for that info. Unfortunately the photographs were taken outside Canada and I only have the hard copies on me. Is there any other way I can upload digitally without having the original photographer save the pics on a SD card or Flash. I am not tech savvy , the reason I am asking too many "dumb" questions.

 

[hawk39]

The only other thing I can think of is to have the photographer e-mail the picture to you as an image, where you would then save it on your hard drive and upload it to the application. I would imagine that scanned pictures are not acceptable because scanning dulls the resolution, so features of the subject of the picture would not be clear. You can try contacting IRCC about this, but if they say that it has to be a digital image and this is something you can't do, then mailing a paper application might be your only choice.

Even more curious (to me at least) is the whole online application. At least with paper applications, copies need to be certified by a third party to prove their authenticity, and pictures needed to be signed and attested by the photographer that the subject is indeed that person. But with the online application and just scanning/uploading documents and pictures, I feel that it would make it easier to falsify and fool the process, given that one can just digitally add or edit information into the documents to support their claims.