Do you write on the back of the photo with a pen or pencil!?

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CrossHairs

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The instruction says "Write lightly with a pencil on the back of the photo" for filing N-400.

But you can hardly write anything with a pencil - since the photo paper is a bit glossy to write with a pencil!!! (took photos at Costco).

Do you folks write (or wrote) with a pen?
 
Use well sharperned number two pencil and you can press lightly on the photo. There is no way to avoid the indentations and this is ok.
 
Don't use pen. I also had a hard time with the photos but I pressed slightly hard enough to write my name and A#. See the imprints of this on the other side is unavoidable.
 
Jedi,
I remember during LPR - we had to do something similar. I think (if I remember correctly), I had used a pen then. There were no issues.

Do you hear issues if people use pen? I think the idea is to not write with smudgy ink, and the basic idea is to know who (name and A#) the photo belongs to incase it gets separated from the Application.

Is this so strict that we cannot use pen?

With pencil - the INS suggestion of "lightly with pencil" is anyways not possible since "lightly" wont work.
 
Don't listen to me too much. I still undergoing this process so when I say something its because I followed the instruction on the N-400 form to the letter. I hope that there are other experiences here as I'm sure there are.
 
Jedi.Knight said:
Don't listen to me too much. I still undergoing this process so when I say something its because I followed the instruction on the N-400 form to the letter. I hope that there are other experiences here as I'm sure there are.
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No probs...we are all in the same boat :)

It is always good to talk amongst ourselves and discuss each others opinions and experiences :)
 
used pencils only. it was clear and legible.

as Jedi says, since they say pencil i used pencils.
 
They do stupid things like that to annoy people I think. I used one of those mechanical plastic pencils that you drop lead in the top. Those seemed to write better and harder then the regular pencils. I still had to write over a few times to get it looking somewhat decent...
 
any recent experience in writing by pencil.
I am nole able to write by pencil. It is not readable and if I press the pencil to hard, I can see marks on the front oft he photos.
 
emno said:
any recent experience in writing by pencil.
I am nole able to write by pencil. It is not readable and if I press the pencil to hard, I can see marks on the front oft he photos.
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Does not matter. Just send photos. I did not even sent photos or they were lost by USCIS. the yellow letter
told me to bring photos and at interview, the IO against asked for them
 
CrossHairs said:
The instruction says "Write lightly with a pencil on the back of the photo" for filing N-400.

But you can hardly write anything with a pencil - since the photo paper is a bit glossy to write with a pencil!!! (took photos at Costco).

Do you folks write (or wrote) with a pen?
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I just did it. Use 4B pencil and you will be able to write perfect!
 
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