Indian Passport Photo 630x810 px (35x45 mm)

Indian Passport Photo (630 × 810 px, 35 × 45 mm)

Make an Indian passport photo in the new ICAO format, 630 × 810 pixels (35 × 45 mm), white background, face 80–85% of the photo. Free, no upload.

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35 × 45 mm · head 36–38 mm from chin to crown · digital 630 × 810 px

Background: plain white, with no shadows or patterns.

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How to use

Take a photo against a plain white wall, without glasses, and add it to the tool.
The Indian passport format is already selected. Fit your head between the blue line and the green band, so the face fills 80–85% of the height.
Click "Create passport photo".
Upload the 630 × 810 pixel photo on the Passport Seva portal, or print the sheet if you need paper copies.

Features

Exactly 630 × 810 pixels: The digital photo matches the pixel size required by the Passport Seva guidelines for ICAO-compliant photographs.
Large face, as required: The guides follow the rule that the face takes up 80–85% of the photo, larger than in many other countries' formats.
Print sheet: Exact-size 35 × 45 mm copies on a 4 × 6 inch print for offices that still ask for paper photos.
Private: Your photo is cropped in your browser. It is not uploaded to our site or anyone else's.

India’s new passport photo format

India’s Passport Seva has adopted photo guidelines based on the ICAO standard used for machine-readable passports worldwide. The photo must be in colour with dimensions of 630 × 810 pixels, a close-up of the head and top of the shoulders in which the face takes up 80 to 85 percent of the photograph. That is a noticeably bigger face than in the older square format, so photos cropped for the previous rules often show too much background.

The background must be white, and the photo must show the full head from the top of the hair to the bottom of the chin, centred and not tilted. You must look directly at the camera with eyes open and mouth closed, natural skin tones, and appropriate brightness and contrast. There must be no hair across the eyes, no shadows or flash reflections on the face and no red eye. Glasses should be taken off to avoid reflections. Head coverings are only permitted for religious reasons, and the face from chin to forehead and both edges of the face must remain visible.

How to take the photo

The guidelines recommend taking the photo from about 1.5 metres away, so the face is not distorted. Stand in front of a plain white wall, a little away from it, facing a window for even daylight. Ask someone else to hold the phone at your eye level and take the picture with the main camera, then frame it in the tool so your crown touches the blue line and your chin falls inside the green band.

Uploading on Passport Seva

When the portal asks for your photograph, upload the 630 × 810 pixel digital photo. It is a high-quality JPG; if the portal shows a maximum file size that the photo exceeds, use the image compressor with a KB target, which keeps the 630 × 810 dimensions. The print sheet places 35 × 45 mm copies on a standard 4 × 6 inch photo print for any office that asks for physical photos.

Frequently asked questions

What is the photo size for an Indian passport?

Passport Seva now follows the ICAO standard. The digital photo must be 630 × 810 pixels, which corresponds to a 35 × 45 mm print, in colour, on a white background, with the face taking up 80–85% of the photo.

Is the old 2 × 2 inch (51 × 51 mm) photo still accepted?

The Passport Seva guidelines now specify the ICAO format. Some other Indian services and visa portals still ask for the square 2 × 2 inch format, so always check the instructions of the specific application.

Can I wear glasses in an Indian passport photo?

The guidelines say glasses should be taken off to avoid reflections. Remove them before the photo is taken.

What background colour is required?

White. There must be no distracting shadows on the face or the background.

Can the photo be edited?

Photos must not be altered by computer software. Cropping and resizing to the required format, which is what this tool does, is fine; changing the background or skin is not.