Submitting photos

[cantor2537]

Hi all,

My wife and I made a photobook from snapfish. Is it ok to submit this? Or do the photos really have to be loose?

[shamsia]

Hello there,

Yes the pictures need to be loose. It is very clearly mentioned in the Country Specific Instructions guide. Where are you applying from?

[Baloo]

Hi all,

My wife and I made a photobook from snapfish. Is it ok to submit this? Or do the photos really have to be loose?

   @    shamsia What they mean is that photos should not be stapled together.

The pictures do not have to be loose (see comment above).
Many people have submitted collages of images, I also added a large collage of scanned cards and personal notes (because we attach sentimental value to the original items). Your snapfish printout will be fine.

[cantor2537]

Thanks. I think I'll be submitting both, just to be sure. We have about 100 photos in total, could've attached over 1000 (as we've been together for almost 7 years, just married two months ago) but I was just thinking that would be overkill. The photobook is nicer because it's all in one place and we have captions for everything.

[Baloo]

Overkill is not needed, just mention that you have additional photos if they need them.

Good luck.

[madatito2000]

so poeple are u sure that after we got the visa and landing to canada do u think they will return back to us all pics and cards personal notes and everything else idont mean the legal ducoments

[Baloo]

so poeple are u sure that after we got the visa and landing to canada do u think they will return back to us all pics and cards personal notes and everything else idont mean the legal ducoments

Not everyone gets these items returned.

That is why scanning the originals and printing copies is a good idea.

[AndreUK]

I didn't have the time to do a collage, print, etc.. so I selected about 500 photos (out of thousands!! - been married for 8 years) and took them to Walmart, had them printed for me in about an hour. It would have taken days to do anything different.. I spent another couple of hours organizing them in envelopes with dates and adding captions to some of them.
That may be overkill, but honestly it would have taken a looooot longer just to pick 100 or so out of them.
In this case, more is definitely better than not enough, plus it was quicker to do "more".
 

[can_usa_97]

I submitted no original photos - but rather scanned or digital images in a word document which covered the span of our relationship.

[Baloo]

My main point is that you may not get originals back (cards or photos).
As long as you have the originals safe, immigration can do what they want with the copies.

I generated my image book with Adobe Lightroom, total time 15 minutes, because all my images are catalogued and captioned anyway.
One benefit to scanning cards, notes and pictures is that it makes them easy to annotate.

[AndreUK]

Excellent!

My main point is that you may not get originals back (cards or photos).
As long as you have the originals safe, immigration can do what they want with the copies.

I generated my image book with Adobe Lightroom, total time 15 minutes, because all my images are catalogued and captioned anyway.
One benefit to scanning cards, notes and pictures is that it makes them easy to annotate.