At Henrico Photo we provide you with passport, VISA and other ID photos that are confirm the required specifications for most countries, including US, Canadian and European passports photos, Canadian permanent resident photos, European VISA photos and most other foreign nationality photos for passports, VISA's, citizenship, resident and ID cards.
Please call for an appointment, most of the time, the photos are ready in about 15 minutes.
However, depending on the size
and other criteria requirements, additional time
might be needed. Please come prepared to the studio
at the time of your appointment, to have your
passport, VISA or ID photos made while you wait. If
you have the specifications or required paperwork
available, you can bring them with you. Sizes,
placement, signature and other requirements differ
for each country.
In compliance with ICAO’s (International Civil Aviation Organization), recommended practices, some 100 countries, including the United States and Canada, are issuing electronic passports or ePassports.
In a world where security needs are constantly changing, countries all over the world look to ICAO for trustworthy advice. As technology evolves, ICAO's standards and document specifications will continue to influence the passport's development on a global scale.
If you would like to learn more about ICAO and passports, please visit
ICAO's website.
Download the pdf file of the MRTD Report here. It focuses on two subjects relating to the ICAO Biometric Blueprint: the use of the face as the primary biometric for interoperability of ePassports, and the launch of the ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD) as the main global distribution point for all signing certificates from all issuers of ePassports..
Why can't I smile in my passport photo?
The International Civil Aviation Organization recommends that passport photos be taken with a neutral expression for use with facial recognition systems - advanced technology that helps prevent fraud by electronically verifying identity based on each person's unique facial features
General information
Some countries require a witness to sign the back of the passport photo. Please check with your local passport issuing agency for the requirements.
Do not wear white clothes, since a white, or light gray background is required for passport applications. Glasses and ear-rings might have to be removed since it may reject the passport photo due to glare. The eyes must be entirely visible. Your passport photo must have a neutral facial expression, mouth closed and looking straight at the camera. Some countries permit head covering only for religious, philosophical or medical reasons.
Your passport photo should have a regular day-to-day appearance, avoid excessive make up and dress conservative. Ladies, no lip gloss please.
In the small event your passport photos are rejected,
we will retake the passport photos for free, and for passport photos other then the countries
we have listed, we re-take the passport photos for free only if you brought the specifications with you at time of your appointment.
Without specifications we cannot guarantee if the passport photos will pass the requirements, and therefore will not retake the passport photos for free.
The studio is equipped with a dedicated computer system to comply with all the required specifications.
European passport software is used in our system, and constantly updated to the latest specifications.
The passport photos are printed on a dedicated passport printer to comply with the resolution and paper quality insisted by the various authorities.
We presently have the specification of the following Countries:
Albania,
Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus,
Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France,
Gambia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco,
Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Papua New
Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Romania,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Schengen, Serbia,
Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland,
Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, United States and Vietnam.
Occasionally new countries are added, please call if you don't see your country listed.
US & Canada
At Henrico Photo, we provide USA passport, citizenship, immigration and lottery green card photo to the specifications as required by the accepting agency. We also provide the much stricter Canadian passport, citizenship, VISA and permanent resident photos.
The Canadian passport photos will be confirm the specifications and have our business stamp and date/signature on the back of one photo, as required by the Canadian Government.
American passports are 2 x 2 inches (51 x 51 mm) , sized such that the head is between 1 inch and 1 3/8 inches (between 25 and 35 mm) from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head.
Canadian passports are 50 mm wide X 70 mm high (2 inches wide X 2 3/4 inches long) and sized so the height of the face measures between 31 mm (1 1/4 inches) and 36 mm (1 7/16 inches) from chin to crown of head (natural top of head). Taken by a commercial photographer, the following must be included on the back of one photo; the name and complete address of the photo studio and the date the photo was taken. The photographer may use a stamp or handwrite this information. Stick-on labels are unacceptable. Your guarantor clearly write: "I certify this to be a true likeness of (applicant's name)" and sign his or her name (unless you are applying to renew a passport, as no guarantor is necessary for renewals) .
the Netherlands
Henrico Photo is informed of the requirements and recommended by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC, as a passport photographer for the Richmond area. The Dutch passport photos are confirm the Dutch photomatrix 2007 specification.
Dutch passport photos are scanned into a computer system at the Embassy, and later in the Netherlands, embedded on a chip inside the passport. Since the Dutch passport photos are to be made following strict rules, it is possible that the Embassy may reject the photo. In the small event that this may happen, I will re-take the passport photos free of charge. Please be advised that American passport photos will not be accepted at the Dutch Embassy.
Henrico Photo (Erwin P van Beveren) is door de Nederlandse Ambassade geinformeerd op de regels, en aanbevolen als pasfotograaf voor Richmond en omgeving. De door ons gemaakte Nederlandse pasfoto's voldoen aan de photomatrix 2007 specificatie.
De
foto’s voor een Nederlands pasport
worden op de Ambassade in een computer
systeem gescand, en
later in Nederland,
op een chip in Uw
pasport aangebracht. Aangezien de
Nederlandse pasfoto's aan strenge regels
moeten voldoen is het mogelijk dat de
Ambassade Uw foto weigert. Mocht dit het
geval zijn dan maken wij gratis een
nieuwe set pasfoto's. Let op,
Amerikaanse pasfoto's worden bij de
Nederlandse Ambassade niet geaccepteerd.
Disclaimer as posted on the website of the Dutch Embassy:
Passport photos taken by photographers, who are informed of our requirements according to the Photo Matrix Model, are not automatically accepted at the Embassy or at the Consulates of the Netherlands in the U.S.A. or at the passport issuing office in the Netherlands. A final check will be carried out before the document is being produced.
Certification
