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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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01Sizes

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.

02Documents

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Photo size and background for each document
Document
Uganda2 documents
Uganda Passport, Uganda 51 × 51 mm Light
Uganda Visa, Uganda 35 × 45 mm Light
03In common

What these formats have in common — Uganda

  1. 01The photo size is not the same for every document: 51 × 51 mm, 35 × 45 mm.
  2. 02The background is the same in every format: Plain light.
  3. 03Across these formats the head takes 70–80% of the picture height.
  4. 04A 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 — Uganda

Document photo specifications — Uganda
DocumentPhoto sizeHead in frameBackgroundLast verified
Passport51 × 51 mm70–80%Plain light
Visa35 × 45 mm70–80%Plain light
05How to make

How to make such a photo

For the selected document — Uganda Passport, 51 × 51 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 · 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.

    Print sheet

06Sources

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.

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Where these rules come from — Uganda
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
07News

Recent notes — Uganda

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

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