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  • i-485 and i-130 and i-131 and i-765 photos?

    I'm US citizen

    If I'm submitting i-485 ,i-130 ,i-131 ,i-765 together, how many photos do i need?


    is this right?

    i-485 2xmy wife
    i-130 1xmy wife, 1xme
    i-131 2xmy wife
    i-765 2xmy wife



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    Last edited by mrgodai; 04-30-2008, 05:11 PM.

  • #2
    That's exactly right.

    Here's one of my posts in another thread re: cost of the phots which quickly adds up, so my husband and I made our own. We took our own pictures, then uploaded them on http://www.epassportphoto.com/. This website allows you to upload your photo, provides a tool to make sure it is conforming to the requirements (like head size and eye height and such), and then produces a 4''x6'' picture with your photo repeated 6 times. You can then treat this output as a standard 4x6, which you can take to be printed at any Walgreens or CVS for a fraction of the price (I think they charge 15 or 20 cents for a 4x6 print). So you get 6 passport photos for 15 or 20 cents.

    There is a catch though: usually CVS and Walgreen crop your prints slightly, so you don't get an exact 4x6, but slightly smaller, which knowing how anal the USCIS is about every little detail, can be grounds for an RFE. We realized this after getting our photos printed at CVS. So we used Adobe Photoshop (I believe you can use other, simpler, photo editing software) to add a color border around the 4x6 and transformed it into a 5x7, so when the cropping occurs, it eats into this border, not the actual photos. This time we printed them at Walgreens (better quality than CVS anyway), and a 5x7 print at Walgreens costs $1. (We uploaded the photos on the Walgreens website, ordered prints and picked them up the next day). So we got 5 prints (30 passport photos in total) for $5 (we got extras just in case, and cut the photos ourselves).

    All this is a little bit time consuming, requires a digital camera, it took us a little bit to find a good spot in out apartment, with enough light and white background, plus some photo editing to add the border, but the cost savings are worth it.


    07-Apr-08 Mailed I-130/AOS/EAD/AP
    10-Apr-08 Delivered at Chicago lockbox (filing date)
    15-Apr-08 NOA's for all forms
    16-Apr-08 Checks cashed
    02-May-08 Biometrics
    08-May-08 RFE
    04-Jun-08 Mailed response to RFE
    11-Jun-08 Case processing resumed (I-485)
    22-Jul-08 AP issued
    25-Jul-08 EAD card production ordered
    29-Jul-08 EAD Approval Notice sent
    31-Jul-08 EAD Card received
    15-Sep-08 Interview (APPROVED)
    24-Sep-08 Approval notice sent
    27-Sep-08 GC received

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    • #3
      Alternate option ...

      FYI Only as an alternate option:

      3.5 cm = 35 mm or 1.37 inches. They accept 1.4 inch x 1.4 inch pictures as they know this is the best we can do easily in the U.S.
      ======Read Below from one of my other posts in ImmiHelp===========
      You can change the background in Adobe Photoshop and then use MS Word to print the photos on photo-paper with the correct dimensions.

      MS Word allows you to re-size the photos properly as required.

      If you want to make it easier for you, invest in a software from:

      http://www.onthegosoft.com

      This s/w has the dimensions for USA, UK, European Union and Brazil.

      Also, it has the option to add dimensions for other nations.

      Hope this helps.

      Good luck.

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