Photographic Evidence

[camarsden]

Dear all.

I'm wondering if anybody out there has any advice regarding the presentation of photos as evidence for our relationship?

The other week I read on this forum that someone had copied and pasted their photos on to a MS Word document and wrote a caption under each picture detailing the date, who's in the photo etc. I thought this was a good idea and saves there being a huge bulk of photographs in the application. However, will the Canadian officials accept this, or do they want actual photographs printed out from a shop, like Boots or Kodak?

And on the subject of photos, does anyone know where I can get immigration photos taken in Seoul?

Thanks.

 

[YorkFactory]

We printed out all our photos at one of those pharmacy photo kiosks. We arranged them, and discarded the ones we decided wouldn't be helpful. Then, we just put them back in the photo envelope, and I wrote "PHOTOS" on it and secured it with a couple of rubber bands. Low-tech, I know, but it worked.

 

[tgchi13]

We printed out all our photos at one of those pharmacy photo kiosks. We arranged them, and discarded the ones we decided wouldn't be helpful. Then, we just put them back in the photo envelope, and I wrote "PHOTOS" on it and secured it with a couple of rubber bands. Low-tech, I know, but it worked.

My understanding is that this would work, provided you do not get called in for an interview where you must provide all original documents. In the digital age this is possible and plausible. Your .jpeg or other common format pix will suffice for the application but if and when you are requested to attend an interview, I'd suggest going Boots-like or Kodak option to be on the safe side.

 

[YorkFactory]

My understanding is that this would work, provided you do not get called in for an interview where you must provide all original documents. In the digital age this is possible and plausible. Your .jpeg or other common format pix will suffice for the application but if and when you are requested to attend an interview, I'd suggest going Boots-like or Kodak option to be on the safe side.

I'm not sure what you mean—had we been interviewed, we could have just reprinted the photos (which would be just as original as what we sent in). The kiosks are Kodak equipment.

 

[nyssa]

I plan on just printing 2-3 pictures per page per event over our 3-year relationship. (Christmas, Halloween, 3 trips to Canada, Family visits, etc.) The captions are underneath and in my point of view (Applicant). For every picture, I have this:
XXX (Sponsor), XXX (Sponsor's Mother), XXX (Applicant) and XXX (Sponsor's Sister) during XXX's visit........(explanation). Photo taken by XXX.

And on the top of the page I have the event, the date and which Tab it corresponds with per folder.

Hope that helps!

 

[camarsden]

hey there everyone.

thanks for all your responses. they're much appreciated.

i think i'll stick with my plan...like nyssa...it makes much more sense to do it like this. these days i tend to stick me SD card in me computer, transfer the files and then it's on me hard drive. i really can't remember the last time i went to get photos developed.

hopefully immigration will like my photos. although, if there's anyone who has got approved/rejected presenting their photos this way let me know asap.

thanks again everyone.

 

[Suin]

We printed out all our photos at one of those pharmacy photo kiosks. We arranged them, and discarded the ones we decided wouldn't be helpful. Then, we just put them back in the photo envelope, and I wrote "PHOTOS" on it and secured it with a couple of rubber bands. Low-tech, I know, but it worked.

that's exactly what we did and it worked just perfect.

 

[Suin]

hey there everyone.

thanks for all your responses. they're much appreciated.

i think i'll stick with my plan...like nyssa...it makes much more sense to do it like this. these days i tend to stick me SD card in me computer, transfer the files and then it's on me hard drive. i really can't remember the last time i went to get photos developed.

hopefully immigration will like my photos. although, if there's anyone who has got approved/rejected presenting their photos this way let me know asap.

thanks again everyone.

do you plan to send them attached file or have it printed out?

 

[camarsden]

hi

i plan to copy and paste them on to a word document - probably 2 on a page, write a caption underneath each photo explaining who/where it is etc and print them out, then attach them to the rest of my documents where appropriate.

does that sound good/make sense?

 

[tgchi13]

I'm not sure what you mean—had we been interviewed, we could have just reprinted the photos (which would be just as original as what we sent in). The kiosks are Kodak equipment.

Sorry - response more directly related to original poster, noting that they will need to go the actual photo route (as you did with your original submission) if they need an interview.

 

[AllisonVSC]

Dear all.

I'm wondering if anybody out there has any advice regarding the presentation of photos as evidence for our relationship?

The other week I read on this forum that someone had copied and pasted their photos on to a MS Word document and wrote a caption under each picture detailing the date, who's in the photo etc. I thought this was a good idea and saves there being a huge bulk of photographs in the application. However, will the Canadian officials accept this, or do they want actual photographs printed out from a shop, like Boots or Kodak?

And on the subject of photos, does anyone know where I can get immigration photos taken in Seoul?

Thanks.

Hi Camarsden, it is likely you read one of my posts about providing a "relationship chronology" though I am sure others have used Word to provide photo evidence of their relationship. To me it just seemed the easiest way to incorporate the pictures into the telling of our story for someone who doesn't know us. Constructing this document was by far the MOST FUN part of completing our application. But as you can see from other responses to your original post attaching photos in an envelope works fine too. Just be sure to send it in print form (no weblinks or cds) and follow the other guidelines like no photo albums etc.

 

[ekristensen]

We had some different ways of showing photos. Some we had printed out from the computer, four to a page, because (in this digital age) we don't have so many physical photos. Then we got some printed out from our digital copies and included those. All the photos had Post-Its stuck on them describing when & where it was taken and so on... this was mostly just luck on our part; we didn't know you couldn't write on the photos so it's a good thing we did the Post-Its. I just thought, when putting it all together, maybe they'll want to make copies of them so writing all over/around them wouldn't be good. It didn't look as tidy as printing them from a Word document perhaps, but it got the job done and the IO's can do with the Post-Its what they will!

We had some extra little things like newspaper clippings too. We didn't have a "Photos" envelope; all the photos were categorized into their specific sections. I don't know if this is right/wrong, but it worked for us (so far).

 

[nyssa]

My photos are in different sections as well. It just made more sense in our case, at least.

I'm 90% sure my wedding photos will just be sent as is (NOT printed from Word) so they have actual photos of SOMETHING. And all considering, the wedding should be that something. ;-)