Originally posted by manila bound@Dec 28 2005, 07:06 PM
Does this new cava courier service have limits on what is allowed when you apply for a visa?

Weight, size of photo albums etc?
Back in september 05 my Wife was handed a large sized jiffy bag (Can't rember the size off hand) which was big enough for only some of the Paperwork we had collected. This had to contain both photocopies and orignals. At first my Wife couldn't fit all the papers in, so after my wife phoning the Cava hotline and me Emailing while on the way to work the Embassy,was advised to reduce the evidence we were to send. The Embassy seemed to be shocked that we couldn't fit all the paperwork we had in the bag.

We were in the first wave of the "New Procedure" and even with a lite version of our evidence a Visa was issued for my wife.

With regards to photos from our own experience and what i have read of others experiences, its best to send in the pictures (proper prints if poss not scanned I would suggest) pasted on to paper the same size as the rest of your paperwork.

We had a mixture of "real" and digtal photos, the digtal I printed out onto the same size paper. I would put the pictures in order and if possible have notes alongside explaing briefly where they were taken and who is in the pictures.

Its worth playing around with the software and hardware you intend to use. I used word,excel,adobe acrobat,powerpoint, paint and many more, to produce our folder of evidence.

To reduce paper used its worth playing with font sizes, learning to resize photos so more can fit on to one page,fitting more than one screen dump of yahoo chat history on a page etc.