The personal photos

[mnassar]

am now completing my applications to send them to canada & they mentioned in the guide that they will need a proof for me & my wife relationship such as a personal photos & stuff like that
i wanna ask do i have to send these photos with the applications to canada or i should send them to the local immigration visa office in my country after the applications return from canada ?

[tamee]

send with your application to canada. i photo copied mine(10 to a page) and wrote who when what and where on stickies.

[dallasgal8050]

Tamee,
They accept photo copied pictures? I did'nt know that, we just assumed they did'nt and we had 2 copies of every picture we ever took. 

[tamee]

the checklist never said origianls of photos, and several other people did photo copies and they were finalized in good time.i havent heard anything contrary from buffalo

[thaiguy]

I sent scanned photos with no problems.

[TaaDow]

scanned or photocopied photos is fine. If the Visa Office has any reason to believe a photo has been doctored or edited, they may request an original if the picture is important to proving a relationship (ie. wedding photo's).

I've only heard of the above situation happening a few times and in each case the original photo had been changed to represent a more favorable situation for the applicant.

[ThirstyDeer]

scanned or photocopied photos is fine. If the Visa Office has any reason to believe a photo has been doctored or edited, they may request an original if the picture is important to proving a relationship (ie. wedding photo's).

I've only heard of the above situation happening a few times and in each case the original photo had been changed to represent a more favorable situation for the applicant.

All the photos I have are digital, so I used Microsoft Word to place 6 photos per page on the document, along with captions underneath with the specific date and a description of the significance of each photo.

I also know of many cases where people simple B&W photocopy photos and use that - so as long as you can make out what the photo is.

[LCS]

I sent originals, if you already made extra copies it seems easier to send those than to go to the extra step of scanning or printing photo quality copies. At my husband's interview, they returned EVERYTHING that was sent in with our application. The photos, the stack of used phone calling cards, bank statements, western union receipts, plane boarding passes.