Pakistan passport and CNIC photo size: 35×45 mm explained
Many Pakistani forms, embassies and visa applications ask for a passport-size photo of 35×45 mm (3.5 × 4.5 cm). Here are the usual rules and a free way to make one with your phone.
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Open Passport Photo Maker →The usual specifications
- Size: 35 mm wide × 45 mm high.
- Background: plain white, with no shadows or patterns.
- Framing: head and top of the shoulders, with the face filling most of the frame (around 70–80%).
- Recent: taken within the last six months, with a neutral expression and both eyes open.
Important: for a new passport or CNIC, the Directorate General of Immigration & Passports and NADRA take your photo at their office. The photo you make at home is for other uses: visa and embassy forms, job and university applications, and documents that ask you to attach a passport-size photo. Always check the latest official instructions for your application.
How to make it at home
- Take the photo against a white wall in daylight, at eye level.
- Open Passport Photo Maker and choose Pakistan passport / CNIC (35×45 mm).
- Drag and zoom until your face fits the oval and your eyes are near the line.
- Click Make passport photo. You get a single photo for online forms and a print sheet.
Printing
Take the 4×6 inch print sheet to any photo studio, or print it at home on 4×6 photo paper at actual size (not "fit to page"). Cut along the grey lines to get several copies for a few rupees.
For online forms
If a portal limits the photo to a size in KB, run the single photo through Compress Image to KB. Our guide on photo sizes for FPSC, PPSC and NTS explains this step in detail.
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