One rule, compared across countries
A country page answers “what does this authority require?”. These pages ask the opposite question — take one rule, and show what every authority writes about it. The answers do not agree, and that disagreement is the point.
Rejections cluster around the things people assume are universal — glasses, expression, head covering, how old the photo may be. Those rules are set per country and they contradict each other.
- Can you wear glasses in a passport photo?4 refuse it outright · 4 allow it with conditions
- Can you smile in a passport photo?2 refuse it outright · 1 allows it with conditions · 3 regulate only part of it
- Can you wear a head covering in a passport photo?2 refuse it outright · 3 allow it with conditions · 1 regulates only part of it
- Can you wear jewellery or makeup in a passport photo?3 refuse it outright · 1 allows it with conditions · 2 regulate only part of it
- How old can a passport photo be?6 allow it with conditions · 5 say nothing at all · 2 photograph you at the counter instead
Every country, every rule, on one screen
The short answer for each authority we have read on each rule. A blank means we found no wording on that topic in that authority's pages — not that it is permitted.
No = refused outright · Conditions = allowed, with conditions stated · Partly = a related detail is regulated but the question itself is not answered · Not stated = the authority publishes rules on the topic’s neighbours but not this one · N/A = you never supply a photograph, so the question does not arise · blank = nothing found
The measurements, in one table
These pages are about the rules that are argued over. The figures themselves — print size, digital limits, background, and how many photographs each authority wants — sit in one table covering every country and route we have read.
How these pages are built
Every verdict carries the authority's own wording and a link to the page it was read from, with the date it was checked. Where an authority publishes photo requirements but says nothing about the rule in question, it is listed as not stated — we do not infer an answer from silence. 5 rules are covered so far, across 13 authorities.