Crop a photo to 35 × 45 mm — Portugal passport

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What this document is

The Portuguese electronic passport (passaporte eletrónico português, PEP) is issued by the IRN and applied for only at the counter, by the holder in person, with the Cartão de Cidadão or Bilhete de Identidade and, for a renewal, the previous passport. Appointments are booked online in SIGA or the sigaApp, or through the Linha Registos, and a normal request takes 5 working days.

How to crop it, in three steps

1. 01

   Upload a photo taken face-on, in even light

2. 02

   The tool finds the face and aligns the frame itself — check that the head lands in 70–80%

3. 03

   Save the 35 × 45 mm result — print it or attach it to the application

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Portugal-specific things to know

• You do not prepare a photo for a regular passport: it is taken at the counter. Prepare yourself instead — Salvador da Bahia warns that white clothing can make the photo technically rejected and delay the passport.
• The temporary passport is the only case where you hand in prints: two identical colour photographs under one year old on a plain background (three at Luanda). The text gives no size in millimetres, only «measurements suited to the passport model».
• For a baby or a child up to 2 years, Montreal asks for a JPEG of at least 830 × 1100 pixels e-mailed in advance, so the counter is not held up; other posts did not state this.

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Where these numbers come from

Source: Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN), gov.pt and the consulates of Portugal. Last checked against the official page on 1 Oct 2026.

What the source confirms

• SIMplifica Madeira (regional government service): for an adult applicant, who must appear in person with a valid Cartão de Cidadão or Bilhete de Identidade (and the previous passport for a renewal), «os dados biométricos são recolhidos no balcão de atendimento, não sendo necessário levar fotografia» — biometric data are collected at the counter and no photograph is needed.
• Consulate General in Montreal: «Não é necessário trazer fotografia.» For babies and children up to 2 years, to avoid waiting, it advises e-mailing a photograph in «.jpg» format of at least 830 pixels wide and 1100 pixels high. Consulate General in Zurich: «Não são necessárias fotografias» for the regular passport.
• Consulate General in Luanda: «A fotografia para o novo passaporte é tirada no Consulado, com equipamento específico.» Consulate General in Salvador da Bahia: the applicant must attend in person because biometric data (photograph, height, fingerprints, signature) are collected; wearing white «interfere with the quality of the photo and may delay delivery» — it recommends another colour to avoid a technical rejection of the photo and a second trip.
• Temporary passport, consulates in Zurich, Paris and Salvador da Bahia: «duas fotografias do rosto do requerente, tipo passe, iguais, obtidas há menos de um ano, a cores e fundo liso, com boas condições de identificação e medidas adequadas ao modelo de passaporte» — two identical passport-type face photographs, taken less than a year ago, in colour, plain background, good identification conditions, measurements suited to the passport model. Luanda asks for three; Boston lists two passport-type photographs.
• gov.pt: the temporary passport is requested only in exceptional cases, is not electronic and is valid for one year; the regular electronic passport can be renewed or replaced at any time, and no second copies are issued, only new passports. Abroad it is issued by the Portuguese consular posts.

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