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SamN4

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Hello,

Not a pressing question but an important one I think. I have been with my partner since 04 and thus have several thousand photographs of us together for various events vacations etc..

I'm looking for a general census on how many photo's were included with your applications..

thanks for any input
 

Silver_Spirit

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I was in the same situation and included about 100-200 pics and just made sure they included all the important occasions we were together and any that showed us with each others familys etc too
 

BostonGirl

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I'm not much of a photographer, as such I doubt I have even 100 pics of us and family.
I am afraid this won't be "proof" enough.
Sad to think we might be kept apart because we didn't photographically document
our entire relationship :(
 

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ehhhh, we only used 20 pictures. and since it was just the two of on vacation together, it was hard to find pictures of the two of us together, more of just pics I took of him or pics he took of me...we'll see how it goes!
 

AllisonVSC

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I included only about 8 to 10 photos...us together at home and on vacation, us with my family, and a photo I took of his family. We did manage to include photos "over the years" as evidenced by my changing hairstyles, lol, since we've been together since 2004 as well. We got approved as conjugal partners, so I think if the photos show some inter-relationships the number is not important.
 

angelbrat

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OK I admit i did not send one single photo. Just bank statements, life insurance policies etc, actually very little evidence and we had no problem at all proving we were in a relationship.

I think a lot depends on how long you have been together and whether CIC can suspect it is not a genuine relationship to be honest.
 

Yullover

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We send around 60 pictures, we know each other from 6 years and we only want to show from the beginnig to now... so we send 10 photos from the first meet and the 2 next travel... all other picture are from the wedding and the 2 others travel we make after the wedding.

My wife receive the visa last month and land next sunday
 

bobshynoswife

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We sent 220, but that's because my husband is Nigerian and they deny 40% of cases at the CPC-Accra. We figured better to be safe than sorry! Approx 150 of those were pics of the two of us together on my 8 trips to visit him, and the others were wedding, reception and honeymoon pics.
 

ariell

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We sent 50-60 photos and were approved with no interview. I think for most people, 100 should be the absolute maximum. Try to include not just photos of the 2 of you together, but photos of you two with friends and family if possible.
 
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We sent around 40 because that's how many free prints we got when we signed up for a snapfish account!! :D

The process was so expensive anyway, so we figured we didn't want to pay extra for printing loads of photos (and didn't want to send our own copies in case we didn't get them back, which we didn't by the way). We've also been together since 2004 and have thousands of photos, we just sent some from different times, special occasions and like one of the others said - photos with both of you with friends and family are good!

Good luck with everything! :)
 

canadianwoman

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Like bobshynoswife wrote, it partly depends on where you are applying. It also depends on how much other proof you have. Somebody applying through Ghana, Kenya, or Hong Kong, for example, had better send a lot of photos. Through Buffalo - maybe not so many are needed.
Photos of the two of you with each other's family are very good; also photos of you with anyone you got affidavits, letters or emails from attesting to your relationship.
The visa officer who interviewed my husband stated in the CAIPS notes that she thought our relationship was not bona fide because our photos weren't romantic. Make of that what you will.
Include at least some photos that aren't posed. Of course, most photos a couple has are posed, in the sense that someone picked up a camera, told the others to line up or look at the camera, and smile. But, if you have some where somebody just took a photo at a wedding, a club, a party, at the beach, wherever, and the two of you - not realizing you were being photographed - are together but not consciously posing, and you're laughing, or close together, and seem to be having a good time, this is really good evidence. I've seen appeals where the judge dismissed or gave little credence to the photo evidence because they were all posed, so try to include some that aren't.
 

bobshynoswife

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^^^^^^^ I often hate that this process has caused me to be sneaky. Since we are applying through Accra, we know we had to put in a stellar application, and actually 'staged' candid photos of ourselves. It's ridiculous, really, to have to tell friends and family to take a picture of everyone just when we are laughing or touching.

We have a 100% genuine relationship, are deeply in love and cannot wait to be together and start a family. This process, however, has caused us to start thinking like scammers. In the past six months every time I would get a postcard from him my first thought would be "Evidence!" rather than how wonderful he is to send me a card. We hosted an engagement party for friends and family that we normally wouldn't have done, but both of us were thinking "Evidence!" I'll get a beautiful email from him that says how much he loves me an our kids, and instead of thanking God for sending me such an incredible man, I think "Evidence!"

Ugh. So glad our application is in and we can get back to being our normal selves.

*Besides a few staged photos, nothing on our application was false.
 

michaelab

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Ahh I understand what you mean about the pics. Personally I hate people taking the candid pics of me (esp when I look goofy like laughing or eating!) so I rarely have those pictures. I am usually beind the camera and when I have my pics taken I try to look "presentable". Now that I read this thread I wish I had more of those candid pics.


bobshynoswife said:
^^^^^^^ I often hate that this process has caused me to be sneaky. Since we are applying through Accra, we know we had to put in a stellar application, and actually 'staged' candid photos of ourselves. It's ridiculous, really, to have to tell friends and family to take a picture of everyone just when we are laughing or touching.

We have a 100% genuine relationship, are deeply in love and cannot wait to be together and start a family. This process, however, has caused us to start thinking like scammers. In the past six months every time I would get a postcard from him my first thought would be "Evidence!" rather than how wonderful he is to send me a card. We hosted an engagement party for friends and family that we normally wouldn't have done, but both of us were thinking "Evidence!" I'll get a beautiful email from him that says how much he loves me an our kids, and instead of thanking God for sending me such an incredible man, I think "Evidence!"

Ugh. So glad our application is in and we can get back to being our normal selves.

*Besides a few staged photos, nothing on our application was false.
 

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We sent 36 photos out of hundreds, choosing one, sometimes two, good photo(s) from each occasion.
 

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The photo topic kinda worries me a little too. I managed to find one or two photos of us in a group shot years before we even started dating. The next photo I have of the two of us together was a horrible one taken with a waterproof camera when we went snorkling in Hawaii (it's so bad I won't even post it on facebook). I hate how I look in pictures so was always the one taking the photos. We didn't get any pics of us together until the wedding.