Passport Photo Guidance
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2Passport Photo Guidance
Passport photos are a vital part of your application. If the photos you supply are
not suitable, your passport will be delayed. Please follow the instructions below
carefully so you can get it right first time.
Photo style
Photo quality must
The photo must be of the applicant:
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be taken against a plain cream or plain light-
grey background
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facing forward and looking straight at
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be printed to a high quality, such as photos
the camera
printed by a booth or studio (photographs
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in close-up of their face, head and shoulders
printed at home are unlikely to be of a high
with a recommended head height (the
enough quality)
distance between the bottom of the chin
•
be clear and in sharp focus
and the crown of the head) of between 29
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be taken within the last month
and 34 millimetres
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be in colour on plain white photographic paper
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with a neutral expression and with the mouth
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not be torn, creased, or marked, and
closed (no smiling, frowning or
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not have any writing on the front or back
raised eyebrows)
– except when one of the photos needs to
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with their eyes open and clearly visible (no
be certified.
sunglasses or tinted glasses and no hair
across the eyes)
Children
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free from reflection or glare on glasses,
and frames must not cover eyes (we
Children aged five and under do not need to
recommend that, if possible, glasses are
have a neutral expression or to look directly at
removed for the photo)
the camera. Babies under one don’t need to
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showing their full head, without any head
have their eyes open. If the baby’s head needs
covering, unless they wear one for religious
to be supported, the supporting hand must
beliefs or medical reasons
not be seen. All other photograph standards
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with no other objects or people in the photo
must be met.
(this also applies to a photo of a baby or
young child and babies should not have toys
or a dummy in the photo)
Tip: Place your photos in this guide to help
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without shadows on the picture
check they are the correct size
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without anything covering the face – nothing
before sending
should cover the outline of the eyes, nose or
mouth, and
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not showing any ‘red-eye’.
Photo size must
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be 45 millimetres high x 35 millimetres wide,
the standard size used in photo booths in
the UK (if you are outside the UK not all
photo booths use this standard size), and
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not be trimmed or cut down from a larger
photograph to the size of a standard
passport photograph.
35mm
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