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Brazil document photo requirements

Brazil has 4 verified document photo formats covered on this site. Pick the document you need — each page lists the exact size, background, head ratio, and the official source it was verified against.

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01Sizes

Photo sizes drawn to one scale — Brazil

3 sizes across 4 documents: a photo taken for one document will not fit a different size. Click a size to keep only its documents in the table.

02Documents

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Brazil · 4

Photo size and background for each document
Document
Brazil4 documents
Brazil Passport, Brazil 50 × 70 mm White
Brazil Visa, Brazil 35 × 45 mm White
Brazil ID Card, Brazil 30 × 40 mm White
Brazil Work Permit, Brazil 30 × 40 mm White
03In common

What these formats have in common — Brazil

  1. 01The photo size is not the same for every document: 30 × 40 mm, 50 × 70 mm, 35 × 45 mm.
  2. 02The background is the same in every format: Plain white.
  3. 03Across these formats the head takes 44–80% of the picture height.
  4. 041 document — you supply the photo yourself.
  5. 051 document works either way — bring a photo of your own, or have it taken at the office.
  6. 06A single document can still add rules of its own on top of this — the document page is the complete list.
04Table

Photo specifications at a glance — Brazil

Document photo specifications — Brazil
DocumentPhoto sizeHead in frameBackgroundLast verified
ID Card30 × 40 mm70–80%Plain white
Passport50 × 70 mm44–51%Converted from the millimetres the authority publishesPlain white
Visa35 × 45 mm70–80%Plain white
Work Permit30 × 40 mm70–80%Plain white
05How to make

How to make such a photo

For the selected document — Brazil Passport, 50 × 70 mm. Three ways; pick the one that suits you.

  1. With a phone at home

    Ask someone to photograph you against a light wall in daylight, the phone at eye level. Then, for free:

  2. With AI from a selfie

    Upload any selfie — the AI builds a photo to the selected document’s rules: size, background, light and head position. You see the result before you pay.

    €5.99per photo, one-off, no subscription

    If it’s rejected, we refund you

    Make it from a selfie
  3. 10 × 15 sheet · 1 photos 50 × 70 mm

    In a photo studio

    If you need a printed photo today, show the photographer the requirements from the document’s page. And a ready phone photo we will lay out on a 10 × 15 or A4 sheet for free — print it at any photo studio.

    Print sheet

06Sources

Where these rules come from — Brazil

Every document lists the issuing authority, a link to its rules and the date we checked them. The drawings show only numbers from those rules.

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Where these rules come from — Brazil
ID CardState identification institutes of Brazil (Polícia Científica de Santa Catarina; Polícia Civil do Paraná) for the National Identity Card (CIN). Open the official page
PassportPolícia Federal / gov.br. Open the official page
VisaBrazil eVisa / VFS Global. Open the official page
Work PermitPolícia Federal, Brazil (gov.br/pf) — immigration. Open the official page
07News

Recent notes — Brazil

Short notes we wrote when a requirement, a form or a submission portal changed.

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