Years of paperwork.
One morning everyone remembers.
The new citizen has been through interviews, fees and waiting, and the oath ceremony itself is a crowded hall, a short speech, a flag and a certificate. The party after is hosted by a spouse, a sibling or the friends who came to the ceremony, for a crowd that speaks at least two languages and includes people who have never been to a citizenship party before. Half the family is still in the country the new citizen left. A QR code on the table collects every photo in a private gallery, and a live stream lets the people back home see the oath.
The moments guests actually photograph at citizenship ceremonies
Why citizenship ceremonies work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
The oath, watched from the country they left
The parents and siblings who could not get a visa for the ceremony want to see it more than anyone in the hall. Live Pass streams the oath or the party on a private link with audio to as many as 100 viewers, and they watch on any phone back home without an app, at whatever hour it is there.
A guest page in the languages at the table
A citizenship party mixes the new citizen's family, their coworkers and the neighbors, and not everyone reads the same language. The upload page follows each guest's phone settings and speaks English, Español, Français, so a grandmother uploading from a Spanish-language phone sees the same button in her own language.
The certificate photo stays private
Everyone wants the photo holding the certificate, and the certificate carries a number and details that should not be on a public page. The gallery is reachable only through the link you share, never indexed, and blocked from search engines and AI crawlers, so the family has the photo and the internet does not.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
Live Pass is a standalone $39 one-time add-on: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with audio. Family abroad watch on any phone, no app required.
Guest pages in 3 languages
The upload page speaks English, Español, Français, chosen from the guest's phone settings, so a mixed-language crowd is never guessing what a button does.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page — a blessing, a toast, a story — saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event the week before the ceremony and send the link to family abroad with the time of the oath in their time zone.
Keep the QR code on a phone for the hall and print it for the party tables, since the hall may not allow signs.
Family at the ceremony upload from outside the hall; guests at the party upload through the afternoon and record a message in whichever language they like.
That night, send the gallery to everyone in both countries and download the archive to keep beside the certificate.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from citizenship ceremonies
Check the ceremony rules before you plan to stream anything. Most naturalization ceremonies allow photos and many allow video, but the larger halls and courthouses have their own rules on where guests sit and whether recording during the oath is permitted, and staff will tell you on the day. Plan the live stream for the moment outside the hall with the certificate, or for the party, if the ceremony itself turns out to be off limits. Family abroad care most about seeing the new citizen's reaction, and that happens on the steps as much as inside.
Give the family abroad the link before the ceremony, in their time zone. A morning oath ceremony in Texas is evening in Manila and early afternoon in Lagos, and a parent who is told "we will send you the link later" spends the day refreshing a chat. Send the private stream link and the gallery link the night before with the local time, so they are already waiting when the doors open. Afterward, they get every photo at full resolution from the same link, without an account and without asking anyone to forward anything.
Let the toast happen in both languages and record it. Someone will speak in English for the coworkers and someone else in the family's language for the grandparents, and both versions belong in the gallery. A guest can record a voice message from the upload page in whichever language they think in, so ask the elders to say what the day means to them in their own words. The gallery keeps those recordings with the photos for 365 days on an Event Pass, and the archive downloads to keep alongside the certificate.
Common questions about citizenship ceremonies
Can family in my home country watch the ceremony live?
Yes, as long as the ceremony allows it. Live Pass is a $39 one-time add-on that streams up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers on a private link, with audio, and family watch on any phone without installing anything. Some halls permit recording throughout, some only after the oath, so ask staff when you arrive and be ready to stream from outside instead. The party after is always yours to stream. Send the link the night before with the local time so nobody misses it.
Is it safe to put photos of the naturalization certificate in a gallery?
The certificate has a number and personal details on it, so the safe answer is to keep those photos in a private place rather than on social media. The gallery is private by default, reachable only through the link or code you share, never listed anywhere, and blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers. Family who receive the link browse without creating an account. If you want to check every upload before other guests can see it, turn on host review. You can also remove any photo at any time.
Our guests speak different languages. Will they all be able to use it?
The guest page is available in English, Español, Français, chosen from each guest's phone settings, so a Spanish-speaking or French-speaking relative sees the upload page in their own language without doing anything. For other languages the page appears in English, and the flow is a scan and a button to choose photos, which a cousin can show an elder once. Guests can record a voice message in any language they like; the recording is theirs. The host dashboard is in English.
What is a good way to celebrate a citizenship ceremony?
Most families do a meal at home or a restaurant that afternoon, with a cake, a toast in both languages, and dishes from both countries on the same table. A gallery of the day is a good centerpiece: put the QR code on the table, ask guests to upload their photos from the hall and the party, and ask the elders to record a message about what the day means. Send the finished gallery to the relatives abroad that night, at full resolution. It becomes the record of the day that took years, and it is ready before the dishes are done.
How much does it cost for the ceremony and a party?
An Event Pass is $29 one time for one event, and it covers the morning and the party together. It includes unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, guest pages in 3 languages, voice messages, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no per-guest fee and no subscription, and relatives abroad who open the link pay nothing and need no account. Streaming to family abroad with Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on.
Every photo from citizenship ceremonies, in one place
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