Uganda · 2 documents · 2 sizes
Uganda document photo requirements
Uganda has 2 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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Photo sizes drawn to one scale — Uganda
2 sizes across 2 documents: a photo taken for one document will not fit a different size. Click a size to keep only its documents in the table.
Choose a document
| Document | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passport, Uganda | 51 × 51 mm | Light | ||
| Visa, Uganda | 35 × 45 mm | Light | ||
What these formats have in common — Uganda
- 01The photo size is not the same for every document: 51 × 51 mm, 35 × 45 mm.
- 02The background is the same in every format: Plain light.
- 03Across these formats the head takes 70–80% of the picture height.
- 04A single document can still add rules of its own on top of this — the document page is the complete list.
Photo specifications at a glance — Uganda
How to make such a photo
For the selected document — Uganda Passport, 51 × 51 mm. Three ways; pick the one that suits you.
With a phone at home
Ask someone to photograph you against a light wall in daylight, the phone at eye level. Then, for free:
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- 10 × 15 sheet · 2 photos 51 × 51 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.
Where these rules come from — Uganda
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.
| PassportUganda High Commissions in London and Abuja — passports portal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (passports.go.ug). Open the official page | |
| VisaDirectorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) of Uganda. Open the official page |
Recent notes — Uganda
Short notes we wrote when a requirement, a form or a submission portal changed.
Tables and free tools
- Check a photo you already have — free, in your browserIt measures the frame — head height, eye line, background — and names what to fix before you submit.

