Australia
Australia Passport Photo
Check the exact australia passport photo requirements and create a correctly sized photo online. This guide covers the photo dimensions, face position, background, expression, and file rules shown below. Always compare the final result with the latest guidance from Australian Passport Office (APO), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) before submitting.
Issued by
Australian Passport Office (APO), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
- Photo size
- 35 × 45 mm
- Head height (crown to chin)
- 32–36 mm
- Eye line (from bottom of photo)
- 22–26 mm
- Background
- White
Plain white or light grey background that contrasts clearly with your face; no patterns, shadows, or objects.
- Glasses
- Not allowed
- Headwear
- Allowed for religious purposes only
- Expression
- Neutral expression, mouth closed, both eyes open, looking straight at the camera, head straight (not tilted or turned); full face and both edges of the face visible, centered in frame. Children under 3 may have their mouth open; no one else may appear in the photo.
- File format
- JPEG
- Resolution
- 300 DPI
- File size
- No published limit
Good to know
- IMPORTANT CORRECTION vs. a common assumption: Australia's current official policy is a near-total ban on glasses in passport photos (verbatim: "You must not wear glasses in a passport photo unless you can't remove them for medical reasons — vision impairment alone is not an acceptable reason to wear glasses in your photo"), NOT a more lenient 'allowed if no glare' policy. Medical exceptions require a signed certificate/declaration at lodgement; this pushes Australia's glasses policy much closer to the US/Canada pattern than initially assumed.
- Editing/retouching is explicitly and strictly prohibited (verbatim: "even small edits like smoothing skin, brightening the background or removing shadows can affect the accuracy of biometric checks"), reinforced in practice by a DFAT 'clean & rescan' rejection policy (asking applicants to retake rather than accepting a digitally cleaned-up photo).
See official source →Last verified July 28, 2026
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