Title: Re: [USMA:35483] passport photos
On 28/12/05 2:46 PM, "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Several days ago I applied for a Brazilian visa. I filled out the form (in
> Portuguese) and went to a nearby Wolf Camera to get my picture taken. The
> form asks for a picture either two inches square or 3 cm * 4 cm. Wolf does
> not have a metric camera, and I wasn't going to have them crop it on a shear
> that has the marks beginning at 4 cm. What I ended up doing was cutting the
> sheet into two strips of three, then cutting one picture off the end of one
> strip, then cropping that one so that my face is in the rectangle, then I
> sent all six to the consulate.
>
> 1. Why is the Brazilian consulate asking for anything in inches?
> 2. Why is it asking for two different sizes? Passport pictures should be the
> same size worldwide just as passports are.
>
> phma
Dear Pierre,
I suspect that the Brasilian government is trying to tell travellers from the USA that their present stock of passport photos are OK to use. The size of passport photos in the USA is specified at http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/setup/setup_873.html near the bottom of the page.
The worldwide standard for passport photos seems to be 35 millimetres wide and 45 millimetres high with varying requirements for the size of the face within these dimensions. For example, the Australian requirement is for a head height on the photo that is between 32 millimetres and 36 millimetres. See: http://www.austemb.org/PDFS/PP%20Photo%20Guide.pdf for the Australian guidelines to travellers from Washington DC.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS (USMA), Member NSAA*
PO Box 305, Belmont, 3216
Geelong, Australia
Phone 61 3 5241 2008
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