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India visa photo
The Indian e-Visa portal asks for a square JPEG between 10 KB and 1 MB. The regular (non-e-Visa) application caps the file at 300 KB, and the mission you're applying to may publish its own dimensions. Check the file here and compare with your mission's checklist before you upload.
The check is free and runs on your device. You pay only if you download the finished file: $4.99.
The exact specification
The same numbers the checker applies. The official source of each value is listed under the table.
- Printed size
- No print, digital only
- Digital file
- JPEG/JPG · 350 × 350 to 1000 × 1000 px · 10 kB min, 300 kB max
- Head size
- 25–35 mm chin to crown
- Background
- Plain white or off-white
- Glasses
- The e-Visa photo page asks for a photo 'without spectacles', with no exception listed. The regular visa instructions don't publish a glasses rule — taking them off satisfies both.
Where these values come from
- Digital file, Head size, Background: checked against U.S. Department of State - Digital image requirements for visa photos (read on the adoption.state.gov mirror, September 19, 2026); U.S. Department of State - Visa photo requirements, including the Diversity Visa entry (mirror); U.S. Department of State - Photo composition template (mirror); U.S. Department of State - Uploading a Digital Photo for online renewal (mirror); U.S. Department of State - Passport Photos (mirror); GOV.UK - Get a passport photo: digital photos; GOV.UK - Get a passport photo: printed photos; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada - Photos for Canadian passports; Government of India - e-Visa upload requirements; Government of India - Online visa application instructions (regular visa photo requirements); German Missions in the United Kingdom - Visa FAQ (photo requirements); NetherlandsWorldwide - Checklist Schengen visa for tourism, as set out in our Passport Photo Size in Pixels: Digital Specs by Country guide. Regular visa instructions.
- Glasses: checked against Government of India - e-Visa page: instructions, document and photo specifications, FAQ (indianvisaonline.gov.in); Government of India - Indian Visa Online: instructions for regular visa applications (photo requirements); Ministry of Home Affairs - OCI FAQ (question 9, photo specifications); Passport Seva - Instructions for filling the passport application form (V3.0), as set out in our India e-Visa Photo Upload: Size, Format and Fixes guide.
Not fully verified. The head-size window, glasses rule and file limits come from the published e-Visa page and regular-visa instructions; we hold the stricter 300 KB byte cap so one file fits either form. The digital pixel box is our range, since the portal publishes none — and your mission's own checklist wins over all of this.
What the free check covers
We measure
- Head size against the published window
- Eye position, where the authority sets one
- Head tilt and rotation
- Background brightness and evenness
- Sharpness and exposure
Only you can confirm
- Glasses — we can't reliably detect them, so we flag rather than pass
- Expression and mouth position
- Red eye
- Filters, retouching or AI edits made before upload
We are an independent service, not affiliated with any government. The issuing authority always makes the final decision — a pass here means your photo meets the published measurements we can check.
What does a failure look like? See our accepted and rejected passport photo examples, with the fix for each one.