India Passport Size Photo Maker — 35 × 45 mm & 630 × 810 px

35 mm wide by 45 mm tall — 3.5 × 4.5 cm — on a 7 : 9 portrait rectangle. This replaced the old square 51 × 51 mm format when India moved to the ICAO standard in September 2025. Your head must measure 36–38 mm from chin to crown, filling 80–85 per cent of the frame.

3.5 cm wide by 4.5 cm tall. If your photo tool or print shop still quotes 5.1 × 5.1 cm, that is the retired square format — ask for 3.5 × 4.5 cm instead. India switched off the square for passport applications, though OCI cards and e-Visas still use it.

Exactly 630 × 810 pixels — not approximately, because the portal validates the pixel count and rejects off-by-one dimensions. It has to be JPEG rather than PNG or HEIC, in colour, and under 250 KB. Files straight from a phone are usually several megabytes, so compression is part of the job rather than an afterthought.

Yes, and for most people that is the whole task. The photo already on your phone is almost certainly not against plain white, and anything else — cream, light grey, blue studio backdrops, or shadows from indoor lighting — gets flagged. Uploading it here replaces the background with compliant white.

No. Since September 2025 glasses of every kind are barred: prescription, reading, frameless, anti-glare and sunglasses, with no medical exception. Older advice about avoiding glare applies to the legacy square format and no longer reflects what Passport Seva accepts.

Yes — that is exactly what this does. Provide a recent, reasonably sharp photo taken in even light, and it is cropped to 35 × 45 mm with the head proportion and white background corrected. You do not need to arrange a new shoot, and photos taken before September 2025 are worth replacing anyway.

Checking your photo against the specifications costs nothing — upload it and you see whether the size, head proportion, background and file spec pass before paying for anything. Being told your photo fails while it still costs nothing to fix is the useful part; the download itself is a separate step.

No. Passport Seva requires a photograph of you, and generated or heavily edited faces fail both the automated biometric check and the human one. Changing the background, cropping and correcting exposure are fine; synthesising the face is not.

No — this is the most common mix-up. Indian passport applications use the 35 × 45 mm rectangle at 630 × 810 px, while OCI cards and e-Visas still use the 51 × 51 mm square. Pick the document you are applying for in the selector so the right spec is applied.