Standard photo requirements
The picture must meet the features required by the ICAO picture standard, in particular:
- it must be recent, not older than a month
- it must have a white or light and uniform background
- face and shoulders must be in the foreground. The face must cover 70-80% of the frame and must be clearly visible: no parts have to be covered by hair, glasses with too thick frames, scarves or shade (for example if you are wearing a wide hat)
- it must be sharp and in focus
- must have good quality
- it cannot be a scan of a passport photo
- the file format must be .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png or .pjpeg
- the file must weigh a maximum of 60 MByte.