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Make your Indian 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, 630 × 810 px
included
4 × 6, 5 × 7 and Letter print sheets
included

Prints at 35 × 45 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 Indian passport photo rule
Print size

35 × 45 mm

We crop to it.

Face size

80–85% of the photo height (36–38.3 mm, chin to top of hair): our reading of the guideline’s “the face takes up 80–85% of the photograph”

The camera tells you to move closer or back.

Digital file

630 × 810 px, 250 KB or less

Background

White

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

Glasses

Not allowed

We ask before you pay.

Expression

Natural, with the mouth closed

Auto waits until your eyes are open.

Photos needed

Two identical prints

Editing

Photos must not be altered by computer software.

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

Not permitted except for religious reasons; the face from the bottom of the chin to the top of the forehead and both edges of the face must be clearly shown.

Other rules
  • Close-up of the head and the top of the shoulders, the face 80–85% of the photo, showing the full head from the top of the hair to the bottom of the chin, centered and not tilted.
  • Look directly at the camera with your eyes open and clearly visible, no hair across the eyes and your mouth closed; the expression should look natural.
  • Taken from 1.5 meters from the camera, not too close (MEA guideline): a selfie at arm’s length is too close, so have someone else take it.
  • No glasses (VFS checklist); the MEA guideline asks you to take them off to avoid reflections.
  • Even lighting with no shadows, flash reflections or red eye; wear a colored shirt that stands out from the white background.

Sources: mportal.passportindia.gov.in, services.vfsglobal.com, cgisf.gov.in, indembkwt.gov.in and cgichicago.gov.in, 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.

Full Indian passport photo requirements, with sources

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 India’s Ministry of External 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.

“Photos should be unaltered by computer software.”

Guidelines for ICAO Compliant Photographs for Passport Applications, passportindia.gov.in

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?

India’s Ministry of External 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 6 photos at 35 × 45 mm; the application asks for 2) and order one 4 × 6 print at a drugstore photo counter or kiosk, 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 an Indian passport photo?

The printed photo is 35 × 45 mm. The guideline says the face takes up 80–85% of the photograph; we read that as 80–85% of the height, 36–38.3 mm from chin to top of hair on the print. The background must be white. The file for an online application is 630 × 810 px, 250 KB or less.

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