GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
e-Services Portal Photograph Capturing
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF IMMIGRATION & PASSPORTS
Guidelines
Please review this helpful information to aid in the successful processing of Applicant’s Photograph
submissions in order to prevent delays or rejections. The photograph submissions must meet specific
criteria for processing by DGI&P.
The photograph size should be maximum up to 5MB.
PHOTOGRAPH QUALITY
The photographs must be:
No more than 6-months
old
Taken against a plain
white background.
Your photos must be
Too Close Too Far Away professionally printed
and 45 mm (Millimeter)
high by 35mm wide.
Close up of your head
and top of your
shoulders so that your
face takes up 70–80%
of the photograph
In sharp focus and clear
Of high quality with no
ink marks or creases
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The photographs must:
Show you looking
directly at the camera
Show your skin tones
naturally
Have appropriate
brightness and contrast
Photographs taken with
Blurred Looking Away a digital camera must
be high quality color
Style and lighting
The photographs must:
Be color neutral
Show your eyes open
and clearly visible
No hair across your
eyes
Show you facing
towards the camera,
not looking over one’s
Unnatural Skin tone Portrait shoulder (portrait style)
or tilted, and showing
both edges of your
face clearly
Be taken with a plain
light-colored
background
Be taken with uniform
lighting and not show
shadows or flash
Not center reflections on your Face
and no red eye
Glasses and head covers
If you wear glasses
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The photograph must
show your eyes clearly
with no glasses on.
Head coverings are
permitted, but your
facial features from
bottom of chin to top of
Glasses Sun Glasses forehead and both
edges of your face
must be clearly shown.
Wearing Hat
Expression and frame
Your photographs must:
show you alone (no
chair backs or other
people visible), looking
at the camera with a
neutral expression and
your mouth closed
Background Mouth open
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