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ICAO and Government Document Photo Specifications

Machine-readable requirements for passport, visa and identity-document photos. Every record includes its source URLs, verification status and last verification date.

236profiles
67countries / jurisdictions
85document labels

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What is included

Country and document labels, canonical source page, verification level, official citations, source facts, physical and digital file contracts, and the Anfas.Pro processing preset.

Important distinction. anfasProcessingPreset is an implementation aid used by Anfas.Pro. It is not automatically an issuing-authority rule. Check inferredFields, verificationLevel and the cited source URLs before reuse.

What 236 document profiles show

This descriptive snapshot is generated from the cited dataset records, not from search-volume estimates or user uploads. It shows why a single “universal passport photo size” is an unsafe assumption.

82 of 128applicant-photo profiles with stored physical dimensions use 35 × 45 mm (64.1%).

15distinct primary physical sizes appear in that applicant-photo cohort; accepted alternative sizes are not included.

30profiles publish a digital pixel contract. A profile can have both physical and digital requirements, so these groups overlap.

56profiles use authority capture or a hybrid flow, compared with 139 applicant-photo profiles; 41 do not state a submission mode.

Most common primary physical sizes

SizeProfilesShare of 128
35 × 45 mm8264.1%
51 × 51 mm107.8%
30 × 40 mm53.9%
33 × 48 mm53.9%
40 × 60 mm43.1%
50 × 60 mm43.1%
50 × 70 mm43.1%
26 × 32 mm32.3%

The remaining 7 primary sizes are available in the JSON and CSV distributions.

Source precision

96 profiles have an exact official specification, 117 have official general guidance, 4 have partial official coverage, and 19 use an ICAO-derived baseline. These labels describe source precision, not whether one country is “stricter” than another.

Methodology. One row equals one document profile, not one country or one applicant. Percentages are not population-weighted. The size table includes only applicant-photo records with photoContract.printSizeMm; accepted alternatives are excluded. Missing digital or submission fields are unknown, not proof that no rule exists. Digital and physical contracts may overlap. anfasProcessingPreset is excluded from the findings above.

Reuse and citation

The data is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Cite the dataset landing page and version. The issuing authority remains the final source of truth because requirements can change.

Kravchenko, Y. (2026). ICAO and Government Document Photo Specifications (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Anfas.Pro. https://www.anfas.pro/datasets/icao-document-photo-specs/

Reproducibility

The release package contains README, LICENSE, CITATION.cff, CHANGELOG, Data Package metadata, a Kaggle metadata template and SHA-256 checksums.