Nigeria Passport Photo Size — 600 × 800 px Upload, No Print

You upload 600 × 800 px — nothing is printed at home. Nigeria passport photo rules read off the issuing authority's own page, checked 2026-08-26.

You upload 600 × 800 px — nothing is printed at home.

Uploaded at step 2 of the NIS online portal. The file you upload is the image printed in the passport.

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.

“The Nigerian passport photo is 413 × 531 px at 300 DPI.”

No government source states this. The portal requires at least 600 × 800 px. The reason nobody quotes it correctly: the portal is a single-page app, so its HTML is empty and neither search engines nor scrapers ever see the numbers.

What gets a Nigeria 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.

Hair should not cover the face or ears.
Do not use any apparel-headphone, mask etc.

How Nigeria compares, one rule at a time

Each page below takes a single rule and shows what every authority writes about it, in their own words. This is where Nigeria lands on each.

How old can a passport photo be? — Not stated

Which route applies to you

Ordinary route

You upload 600 × 800 px — nothing is printed at home.

Uploaded at step 2 of the NIS online portal. The file you upload is the image printed in the passport.

Print size	No official specification
Photos required	No official specification
Head height	50–69 % of photo heightdoes not follow the ICAO 70–80% rule
Eye line	56–69 % from bottom
Background	plain, light-colored background with no distracting shadows
Resolution	No official specification
Digital file	min 600 × 800 px · image/jpeg / image/jpg / image/png · max 2 MB · compression ≤ 20:1 · 24 bits per pixel

Resize and compress for the upload portal

This country only accepts an uploaded file. Print sheets are useless here.

Open the tool with this standard loaded →

Can you just use the ICAO standard?

No. The rule is 50–69% of image height. ICAO's 70–80% does not fit inside that range, so an ICAO-derived crop can be rejected.

The 70–80% figure comes from one paragraph of ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3, and it is measured against the passport page rather than your print — what Doc 9303 actually says, quoted in full.

Where official sources disagree

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

Background

plain, light-colored background — NIS portal, Photo Guidelines table (passport.immigration.gov.ng)
Must have white background. — NIS portal, upload checklist — same portal (passportintl.immigration.gov.ng)

Head height

between 50% and 69% of the height of the image — NIS portal, Photo Guidelines table (passport.immigration.gov.ng)
valid as per the ICAO Compliances (=70~80%) — NIS server-side validation message (passportintl.immigration.gov.ng)

Sources and what we could not verify

Nigerian Immigration Service — Passport application portal (Photo Guidelines) passport.immigration.gov.ng checked 2026-08-26

also: passport.immigration.gov.ng · passportintl.immigration.gov.ng · passportintl.immigration.gov.ng · immigration.gov.ng

not verified: printed size and resolution · which background wording is authoritative · the thresholds the server-side checker actually enforces · whether NIS still bans eyeglasses in passport photos — we carried that line, and five others, until 2026-08-31, when no source we could open turned out to state them

Questions people actually ask

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

You do not bring a print. Uploaded at step 2 of the NIS online portal. The file you upload is the image printed in the passport.

What size is a Nigeria passport photo?

There is no official print size. We checked the government source and found none — any millimetre figure you see elsewhere is not from the authority.

What background colour is required?

plain, light-colored background with no distracting shadows

Why do official pages give different answers?

They genuinely disagree. On background: NIS portal, Photo Guidelines table says “plain, light-colored background”; NIS portal, upload checklist — same portal says “Must have white background.”. On head height: NIS portal, Photo Guidelines table says “between 50% and 69% of the height of the image”; NIS server-side validation message says “valid as per the ICAO Compliances (=70~80%)”. We show both rather than picking one.