Passport Photos

Everything you need to know about passport photos

 

Welcome to Passport-photos.net website. Here you will find all information you need about passport photos. Whether you are US citizen or an immigrant, you will find information about passport photo size, passport photo dimensions, or passport photo requirements by the US government or by the authorized agency/consulate of you country in the USA.

Passport Photos by Country

Passport photos for USA
USA Citizenship Photos

USA Passport Photos

UK Passport Photos
Schengen (European) Visa Photos
Australia Passport Photos
Canada
  Canada Citizenship photos
  Canada Visa Pictures
  Canada Immigration Photos
China
  China Passport Photos
  China Visa Photos
Germany
Passport Photos
India

  Overseas Citizenship of India- OCI Photos
  Person of Indian Origin- PIO Card (India)
  Indian Passport Photos
Japanese
Passport Photos
Japanese Visa Photos
Korean Passport Photos
Mexico Passport Photos

Brazil Passport Photos

Passport Photos comparison

Most of us look around to find best deals these days. Here is a comparison of Passport Photo prices at most popular retails stores. The first column lists the retailer name which is followed by their passport photo package prices, number of photos provided and per passport photo price.

There is a link provided if you want to go directly to the Passport Photo Service provided of your choice.

Store
Rate*
# of Photos
Cost per Passport Photo
OnlinePassportPhoto.com (Click here to order)
$5.95
6
$0.99

US Post Office Passport Photos

$15
2
$7.75

Wal-Mart Passport Photos

$8-$10
2
$4-$5
Target Stores
Passport Photo service not provided

Costco Photo Centers

$5
2
$2.45

Walgreens Passport Photos

$8
2
$4.00

Rite-Aid Passport Photos

$8
2
$4.00

CVS Stores (CVS Passport Photo Coupon)

$8
2
$4.00
OnlinePassportPhoto.com
$5.95
6
$0.99

Kinko's (Fedex Kinko's) Passport photos

$10-$15
2
$5-$7.50

UPS Stores Passport Photo service

$10-$15
2
$5-$7.50


*Rates are as of March 10, 2009 based on our quick search on the Internet. They are rounded for easy comparison. They are subject to change any time by the provider. They are produced here only for comparison purposes. For current rate at a specific provider, please contact them directly.

Feedback about Online Passport photos service:

Excellent!

I just picked up the photos at Walgreens. I am very pleased with your service. Excellent!!! This has saved me so much time and money. I will highly recommend your site

Cathy-Anne Mckie
Tue 9/22/09 2:46 PM

Comparison of FREE Passport Photos Websites

There are some free websites which revolutionized the printing of passport photos. ePassportphoto.com comes on the top followed by www.potraitbooth.com.

What is good about these free websites?

  • The biggest benefit is that ePassportphoto.com and www.potraitbooth.com help you convert your digital photos in to passport photos for free. You upload your digital photos and they give you back a 4x6 print format with multiple photos on it.
  • This is a very quick process. Probably 3 clicks and you are done.

Here are some problems with using FREE Passport Photo services:

  • No offense, but being in the passport photo business and having seen portrait photos taken by thousands of people, we estimate that barely 10% to 20% of the photos taken by users with their digital camera have the exposure, background, contrast needed to make valid and nice passport photos. There is no statistics available but there must be a significant rate of rejection for photos created with help from such free websites.
  • Shadows by flash. Most cameras fire flash when you take photos in house and that in 95% of the situations creates undesired shadows of the head on the background. Most passport photo requirements specifically ask you to submit photos without shadows. (Our tip: It is always recommended to use full service online passport photo services like http://www.onlinepassportphotos.com who digitally remove the shadows from the photos or will advise you how to avoid shadows while taking photos. This will almost eliminate any chances of rejections for your passport or visa application.)
  • Foreign passport/visa photos: Most countries have their own passport/visa photo requirements. If that is not enough, different consulates of the same country have sometimes very different requirements for passport photos. As an example, the OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India) application if submitted at San Francisco Consulate of India or New York Consulate of India will ask you to submit 2x2 inch photos but if you are submitting your application to Houston Consulate of India or Chicago Consulate of India, you will be asked to submit 35mm x35mm photos (which is like 1.3x 1.3 inch)! If the size issue wasn't enough, some consulates ask for Colored background and some require White or White-like background only even if the photos are to be used for the passport/visa application for the same country!!
    With FREE Passport photo websites like ePassportphoto.com and www.potraitbooth.com, you will miss out these fine details but using full service OnlinePassportPhotos.com, you will leave such worries behind as they take care of such details for you.
  • Most free passport photos sites like ePassportphoto.com and www.potraitbooth.com require you to upload a file within only acceptable file sizes. If your photo file is too big or too small, the sites will reject your photos outright.