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Make your Chinese passport photo here

Choose a photo or take one. It’s checked on this phone.

Free check. $9.95 if it passes: files and a 4 × 6 print sheet.

Full refund if it’s rejected. Conditions

The sheet you take to the counter

The price, if your photo passes: $9.95

Digital file, 390 × 567 px
included
4 × 6, 5 × 7 and Letter print sheets
included

Prints at 33 × 48 mm when printed at 100%. Check the store’s current price for one 4 × 6 print.

The rule, and how the camera keeps you in it

The Chinese passport photo rule
Print size

33 × 48 mm

We crop to it.

Head height

28–33 mm, chin to crown; hair inclusion is not specified

The camera tells you to move closer or back.

Space above the head

3–5 mm

Digital file

No pixel size published; 30–80 KB

Background

White

The camera reads your wall before it takes the photo. We don’t edit it.

Glasses

Allowed with no glare

Expression

Natural, eyes open, lips closed

Auto waits until your eyes are open.

Editing

The photo must not be modified, and composite photos are not accepted.

More: Head coverings and other rules
The Chinese passport photo rule: Head coverings and other rules
Head coverings

No head coverings. One worn for religious, medical or cultural reasons must not cover the face or cast shadows, and accessories must not cover the face.

Other rules
  • Taken within the last 6 months, in color, showing the whole face and head, with no shadows on the face or the background.
  • Natural expression, both eyes open, lips closed; no teeth showing.
  • Glasses only with untinted lenses, and no flash, shadow or frame may blur the outline of the eyes; hearing aids are allowed.

Sources: cs.mfa.gov.cn and us.china-embassy.gov.cn, checked October 9, 2026.

If your photo doesn’t pass, we show the one thing to fix, drawn on your photo, and the camera opens set up for it. Retakes are free.

Before and after you pay

  • Before you pay

    free check, retake as often as you like

  • After you pay

    2 free new photos for 7 days

  • If it’s rejected

    full refund

    Send us the rejection notice within 60 days of receiving it, and within 6 months of your order. Conditions

  • Your photo

    stays on your device until you tap Pay

    Files deleted: 7 days after your order

  • Your fileson the next page, and by email
  • Refundto the card or wallet you paid with
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Questions

Will my photo be accepted?

The passport office decides. We check your photo against China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s published rule before you pay. If the office rejects it because of the photo, you get a full refund. Send us the rejection notice within 60 days of receiving it, and within 6 months of your order. Conditions

Do you edit my photo?

No. We level, resize and crop it, and nothing else.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s rule, in short: The photo must not be modified, and composite photos are not accepted.

So a wall that isn’t white means a new photo. The camera helps you take it.

I don’t have a white wall. What can I use?

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks for a white background. A white door, a white sheet pinned flat to a wall, or white poster board. Face a window so the light falls on your face, and stand about 2 ft in front of the wall so your shadow falls behind you.

How do I print it?

Save the 4 × 6 sheet to your phone (it holds 4 photos at 33 × 48 mm) and order one 4 × 6 print at a photo lab, with auto-correct and crop to fit turned off. Check the store’s current price for one 4 × 6 print. You can also print the Letter sheet at home at 100% scale and cut along the lines.

What size is a Chinese passport photo?

The printed photo is 33 × 48 mm. Head height: 28–33 mm, chin to crown; hair inclusion is not specified. Leave 3–5 mm between the top of the photo and the top of your head. The background must be white.

Is my photo private?

The check runs on your device. Your photo is uploaded only when you continue to checkout, and we delete your files 7 days after your order.

Face measurement notice