Nepal Passport Photo Size — You Don't Bring One

You do not bring a photo. Nepal passport photo rules taken from the government source, with the date we checked it.

You do not bring a photo.

You are photographed at the enrollment centre. Missions abroad do the same: “Photographs will be taken at the Embassy on the day of your appointment.”

What other sites get wrong

Each of these is repeated across commercial photo sites. We checked the authority's own page and could not confirm any of them.

“A Nepali passport photo is 35 × 45 mm.”

That was the machine-readable passport era. Under the current e-passport you are photographed at the enrollment centre and bring nothing — unless the applicant is under 5.

What gets a Nepal photo rejected

Every line below is the authority's own wording. These are the reasons applications actually come back — more often than a wrong measurement.

फोटो खिच्दा सकभर श्रृङ्गार नगर्नु राम्रो हुन्छ। — it is better not to wear make-up for the photo
टीका नलगाएको राम्रो हुन्छ। — better to come without tika; no explicit rule is given
Jewelleries and makeups should be removed before providing biometrics.
टिका नलाएको — no tika. “Photo with tika will not be accepted.”
नाक/कानमा मुन्द्रा वा अन्य गहना नलाएको — no nose or ear jewellery
कपालमा हेयरविन/काँटा नलगाएको — no hair clips or pins, and hair not tied up
दाँत नदेखिएको, मुख राम्रोसँग बन्द गरेको — teeth not showing, mouth closed
फोटोमा कतै छायाँ नभएको — no shadows anywhere in the photo
रातो आँखा (Red Eye) नभएको — no red-eye

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Which route applies to you

Ordinary route

You do not bring a photo.

You are photographed at the enrollment centre. Missions abroad do the same: “Photographs will be taken at the Embassy on the day of your appointment.”

There is no printed specification for this route, and none is missing from our data — the authority does not publish one, because you never supply a photo.

Children under 5

You bring 2 printed photos, 35 × 45 mm.

Children under 5 and newborns cannot be photographed live at the centre, so a print is brought instead — the Department gives this as the reason.

Print size	35 × 45 mmofficial wording: “आकार (Size):- 45mm x 35mm”
Photos required	2
Head height	70–80 % of photo heightwithin the ICAO 70–80% rule
Eye line	No official specification
Background	सादा सेतो रङ्ग (plain white)
Resolution	No official specification
Digital file	No official specification

Crop to spec and build a print sheet

You hand printed photos over the counter.

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Can you just use the ICAO standard?

Nepal matches ICAO Doc 9303 (head = 70–80% of image height), so a standard ICAO crop is accepted.

Where official sources disagree

These are not errors on our side. Both pages below are official, and they say different things.

Head height

अनुहारको भाग ७०% (70%) — Embassy of Nepal, Tokyo (jp.nepalembassy.gov.np)
only 70% face coverage — Embassy of Nepal, Canberra (au.nepalembassy.gov.np)
face filling approximately 80% of the frame — Embassy of Nepal, London (uk.nepalembassy.gov.np)

Sources and what we could not verify

राहदानीका लागि कस्तो तस्बिर आवश्यक पर्छ — Department of Passports, Nepal nepalpassport.gov.np checked 2026-08-26

also: nepalpassport.gov.np · us.nepalembassy.gov.np

not verified: the photo rule for the DoFE foreign employment permit

Baby photo for e-Passport — Embassy of Nepal, Tokyo jp.nepalembassy.gov.np checked 2026-08-26

also: au.nepalembassy.gov.np · bd.nepalembassy.gov.np

not verified: an eye line figure — none is given · resolution: the rule only says “high resolution” · whether “70% face” means height or area

Questions people actually ask

Do I need to bring a photo for a Nepal passport application?

No. You are photographed at the enrollment centre. Missions abroad do the same: “Photographs will be taken at the Embassy on the day of your appointment.”

What size is a Nepal passport photo?

35 × 45 mm applies only to one track (under-5). For the ordinary route, you do not bring a photo.

Why do official pages give different answers?

They genuinely disagree. On head height: Embassy of Nepal, Tokyo says “अनुहारको भाग ७०% (70%)”; Embassy of Nepal, Canberra says “only 70% face coverage”; Embassy of Nepal, London says “face filling approximately 80% of the frame”. We show both rather than picking one.