🇮🇳 India Passport photo requirements

Short answer

A India Passport photo must be 51 × 51 mm (600 × 600 px at 300 DPI) with a plain white background, front-facing, taken recently. Face centered, covering about 70–80% of the 2 x 2 inch photo.

Specification

Size51 × 51 mm
Pixels (300 DPI)600 × 600 px
BackgroundPlain white
Head size / positionFace centered, covering about 70–80% of the 2 x 2 inch photo.
ExpressionNeutral expression, both eyes open, mouth closed.

Rules & common mistakes

Use your real photo — not an AI-generated face. Passport and visa authorities require a genuine, unaltered photograph of you and reject AI-generated portraits. Our free tool below is compliant because it only removes the background and crops your real photo to size — it never synthesizes your face. Still, always verify against the current official spec before submitting.

Make a compliant India Passport photo free

Upload your real photo, remove the background, and export at exactly 600 × 600 px. Select "India Passport" in the tool.

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