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Old Oct 24th 2006, 4:05 pm
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So I've got my medical interview tomorrow....one step further to joining you lot all over there woo-hoo!

Yeah, so I had to get my US sized visa photos done today, so I went along to Max Spielmanns and showed them the specifications etc etc, I had even tried practising my 'happy but not smiling' look in the mirror. So I'm standing by the screen, and the woman comes out from behind her desk and she's like 4ft tall!

So now I've got 6 really unattractive, gormless looking visa photos, with a bog eye and double chin....shame I didn't try practising my pose from a 70 degree angle!!
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Old Oct 24th 2006, 4:13 pm
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Originally Posted by andie&jase
So I've got my medical interview tomorrow....one step further to joining you lot all over there woo-hoo!

Yeah, so I had to get my US sized visa photos done today, so I went along to Max Spielmanns and showed them the specifications etc etc, I had even tried practising my 'happy but not smiling' look in the mirror. So I'm standing by the screen, and the woman comes out from behind her desk and she's like 4ft tall!

So now I've got 6 really unattractive, gormless looking visa photos, with a bog eye and double chin....shame I didn't try practising my pose from a 70 degree angle!!

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Old Oct 24th 2006, 4:13 pm
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Originally Posted by andie&jase
So I've got my medical interview tomorrow....one step further to joining you lot all over there woo-hoo!

Yeah, so I had to get my US sized visa photos done today, so I went along to Max Spielmanns and showed them the specifications etc etc, I had even tried practising my 'happy but not smiling' look in the mirror. So I'm standing by the screen, and the woman comes out from behind her desk and she's like 4ft tall!

So now I've got 6 really unattractive, gormless looking visa photos, with a bog eye and double chin....shame I didn't try practising my pose from a 70 degree angle!!
I hope those are head on shots and not the half side angle they used to require .....
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Old Oct 24th 2006, 4:16 pm
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I hope those are head on shots and not the half side angle they used to require .....
yeah i did the full frontal
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Didn't USCIS scrap the 3/4 face possition photos a year or so ago for every application?

I get mine done at the closest CVS to me. The person who takes the pictures there is quite literally 4'10 or less and I'm 6'2 and it always makes me laugh when she goes out the back to get a box to stand on so she can take the picture.

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Old Oct 24th 2006, 4:19 pm
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Didn't USCIS scrap the 3/4 face possition photos a year or so ago for every application?
yup

but i doubt if only seeing 3/4 of my face would have made me look less demented in these circumstances.....probably would have made it look worse! lol
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There meant to look shite, to show that they let all sorts of dodgy looking people in

drivers licenses are just as horrid
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Originally Posted by andie&jase
So I've got my medical interview tomorrow....one step further to joining you lot all over there woo-hoo!

Yeah, so I had to get my US sized visa photos done today, so I went along to Max Spielmanns and showed them the specifications etc etc, I had even tried practising my 'happy but not smiling' look in the mirror. So I'm standing by the screen, and the woman comes out from behind her desk and she's like 4ft tall!

So now I've got 6 really unattractive, gormless looking visa photos, with a bog eye and double chin....shame I didn't try practising my pose from a 70 degree angle!!
I just had my pics taken for my passport renewal.. i swear i look like a crack-addict in them.
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