Post by sunshinedaydreams on Nov 13, 2015 21:45:05 GMT -5
Yes, ours are awful and distorted as well. The top of my head is way bigger than the bottom - it's almost like a funhouse mirror photo. I've never actually had to show my card to an agent, so I'm not sure if they'll reject it, but I doubt it. Mine looks enough like me; just super shitty quality.
Mine was extremely small. My head is only about half the height of the frame and you can see tons of detail from the Newark Global Entry office. I remember there was an old school electric fan in the background that you could see clearly.
I don't know how it would have worked for ID, because I never used it. And when I changed my name, they didn't bother issuing me a new one, because I never use the land border crossings, and that's apparently all it's really for.
I will say that if you think it doesn't look like you or you might have problems, bring a second form of ID. I eventually bit the bullet and paid for a new passport because they stretched the photo so much I had both airline staff and immigration authorities question it. Way too much stress. (At the embassy, one of the other consular staff came over to look at it and said, "You've had problems with that?! A lot of them are waaaay worse!" Apparently the State Department doesn't have high quality standards for ID photos!)
Post by steamboat185 on Nov 16, 2015 14:34:23 GMT -5
Yes, but I never use it for anything. I always bring a passport after being stranded in Boston for 4 days (had we had our passports we could have gone through Toronto 3 days earlier).
Well, my DD told me I looked like a man, so I'm going with yes! To be fair I had come straight from running and didn't look great. I knew they were taking a picture. I just didn't care.
Mine is fine. However my passport photo looks like a mug shot. Ugh... On the one hand I can't wait till my passport is expired to get a new photo, on the other...there are some good stamps on this one.