As your photograph is scanned and printed on the passport, it should be of a high quality for reproduction and conform to International Civil Aviation Organization specifications:

 

• 2 inches x 2 inches or 35mm x 35mm photos

• Sufficiently bright colour photo with frontal view of full face against a light background

• Close-up of head and top of shoulders with the face filling up 70% to 80% of the photo

• Sharp focus, clear, and of high quality

• Following kinds of photographs are not accepted
  • Black and white photographs
  • Photographs with coloured or dark glasses
  • With dark background or in uniform
  • Polaroid, home-shot or home-scanned, or unduly large/small photographs are not accepted

• Photograph should be recent and in no case more than six months old