US passport · visa · green card · UK
Passport photos that don't get rejected.
Most apps crop your picture and hope. This one measures it against the government's own published rules: head height in millimetres, eye line, head angle, and the evenness of your background. Every result shows you the number, the range the issuer published, and the exact wording of the rule it came from.
On-device · nothing uploaded · iOS
The report
It measures your head. In millimetres.
A line travels down your photo, the caliper closes at your chin, and every rule reports its measured value beside the range the issuer actually published. When an issuer publishes no rule for something, the app says so and marks it guidance, rather than inventing a threshold to fail you on.
Every document, with its real spec
Pick what you are applying for and the app loads that issuer's exact frame, head-height band, background target, and output rules. US, UK, and the international ICAO size are covered, each with the source it was drawn from.
US Passport
2 × 2 inNew passport or renewal, DS-11 and DS-82
US Visa
600 × 600 px · ≤ 240 kBDS-160 online application upload
Green Card Lottery
600 × 600 px · ≤ 240 kBDiversity Visa entry, one photo per person
USCIS Filing
2 × 2 inPhotos filed with I-485, N-400, I-90
Baby or Child Passport
2 × 2 inThe hard one: eyes open, plain wall
UK Passport
35 × 45 mmPrint or the online digital upload
ID Photo
2 × 2 inThe 2 × 2 inch standard
ID Photo
35 × 45 mmThe 35 × 45 mm international size
No AI. No background swapping. No retouching.
Edited photos are the ones that get rejected. Immigration offices screen for software changes, and the State Department's own guidance tells applicants not to enhance or alter a photo. On a Green Card Lottery entry an edited photo can make the whole entry ineligible, so this app crops, scales, and saves your real picture. That is everything it does to the image itself.
Measures, does not fix
It tells you a shadow is there. It will not paint the shadow out and pass you anyway.
Your real background
No composited backdrop. The app checks whether the wall you have will pass.
Nothing invented
When the top of your head cannot be found, it asks you to confirm the line, rather than guessing.
Check your wall before you shoot
Point the camera at an empty wall and the app grades it: plain enough, evenly lit, the right tone for your document. A shadow means step away from the wall. A pattern means find a different one. Most homes already have a backdrop that passes, and the guide shows you six.
Wall check
There is a shadow on this wall.
The light is falling unevenly across the surface. Step away from the wall, or turn so the window is in front of you.
A file that fits the form, or a sheet you can print
For a digital upload the app writes the exact pixels the form wants, in sRGB so skin tones do not shift, with the location and camera data stripped out. For a print it lays six photos onto a single 4 × 6 sheet with cut guides, so any drugstore kiosk prints the lot for the cost of one ordinary photo instead of the counter price for two.
- Sized to the byteByte-capped uploads like the DV Lottery are squeezed under the limit automatically.
- Print-readyA 4 × 6 sheet of six, at 300 dpi, with hairline guides to cut along.
Your photo never leaves your iPhone
Finding your face, measuring your head, cropping and saving all happen on the device, using Apple's own Vision framework. There is no upload and nowhere for one to go: the app has no account, and the database behind it has no table that could hold an image. The most sensitive thing here is your face, and it stays with you.
coming soon
Know it passes before you submit it.
Passport & Visa Photo is heading to the App Store. Meanwhile, the blog has plain, sourced writing on the exact rules for US passports, visas, the Green Card Lottery, and more.