Is it blue or white?

[Mikhail 1]

I read that the picture that you need to submit with your I-130 needs to have a white background, passport style, I talked to my asawa and she said she got one woth a royal blue background which is also the same color as her passport background, so can I submit that picture like that or does it have to be white?

[Scott and Mhay 57]

It must be a white background.

From the I-130 Instructions page 2 right side item C: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-130instr.pdf

C. A passport-style color photo of yourself and a passport-style color photo of your husband or wife, taken within 30 days of the date of this petition. The photos must have a white background and be glossy unretouched and not mounted. The dimensions of the full frontal facial image should be about 1 inch from the chin to top of the hair. Using pencil or felt pen, lightly print the name (and Alien Registration Number, if known) on the back of each photograph