Passport Photos for US Passports,
Citizenship Application photos, VISA Photos
Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs)
How
do I place my order for Passport/Visa photos?
How much Online Passport Service costs? How does it
work?
How
will I get my Passport photos after I place my order?
I need passport photos urgently. How can I get them quickly?
How does
'free pick up at a local store' service work?
Do you
deliver photos outside USA? How does OnlinePassportPhoto service work
for people deployed overseas?
If OnlinePassportPhoto
finds that my uploaded photo can not be converted into good passport
photos, what happens to my payment?
Can I get my digital photos pre-approved by OnlinePassportPhoto.com
before I use my credit card to make payment?
What are the official guideline for Passport Photos for US Passport
applications?
How can I take better pictures at home for Passports?
How can I take PROFESSIONAL QUALITY pictures at home
for Passports?
What
kind of Digital Camera do I need?
Do
I have to open Google Checkout or PayPal account to use your service?
How do I pay for multiple photos/persons
in single checkout?
I
don't use credit cards online. Is there a different payment format available?
What
is your privacy policy? How long are our photos stored on your servers?
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Customer comments:
Thanks, I picked them
up.
Excellent service.
Timely, convenient. Pleasantly surprised.
Ananth P
Thursday 7/08/10 6:39 PM
"As you
know, the average price at most photo outlets for 4 passport pictures
could be anywhere between $16 up to $20. The service that you
offer provides significant savings for what seems to be a very
simple process of producing small portrait-like pictures - yet
the photo outlets charge an arm and a leg for this stuff.
Your response
time to my inquiries was excellent; the process of taking my own
digital shots and sending them to you via e-mail was simple; and
the end result was exactly what was needed. All this and big dollar
savings too (especially in my case where I needed pictures for
a family of 6).
Thanks again,
and good luck with your venture.
Ilias (Boulder,
Colorado)
Nov 7, 2007
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How do
I place an order for Passport/Visa photos with you?
Ordering your passport
photos with us is simple. We call it a 2 step process: (These steps
are located on the top of each page on our website for your convenience)
Before placing your order,
please check if your photo(s) can be used to make valid passport or
visa photos. Click on Validate
your photo(s) link here or on top of any page. This link will
take you to a page that has sample photos. Compare your photo to those
sample photos to see if your photo can be used to make valid passport
or visa photos. (If you are not sure, you can always click
here to send us your digital photo(s) for pre-approval
before placing your order).
Once you are ready to order,
we need two things: Your photo(s) and your order/payment.
1) To send us your photo(s), you can upload them on our server by
clicking here, or on the link on top of every page on our website:
Upload your photo(s). Please make
sure you enter the same name while uploading photos that you will
be using to place your order.
2) To make payment and place your order, click on the Make
Payment link here or on the top of any page. These
two steps/tasks can be done in any order but needs to be completed
within 30 minutes window. Our server based matching automatically
matches your photos with your name, address, email address that you
use on your PayPal or Google Checkout order.
If you need more help or have questions, please click
here.
| US Passport
Photos |
Price |
| 6
passport photos for USA/2x2 inch ID Card/Professional use photos |
$6.95 |
| 12
passport photos for USA/2x2 inch ID Card/Profession use photos |
$9.95 |
| 6
passport photos for USA/2x2 inch ID Card/Profession use photos-
2 persons |
$12.90 |
| 6
passport photos for USA/2x2 inch ID Card/Profession use photos-
3 persons |
$18.85 |
| 2x2
digital image for DS 160/US Online Visa- 1 person |
$7.95 |
| 2x2
digital image for DS 160/US Online Visa- 2 person |
$14.85 |
| 2x2
digital image for US Lottery Visa (DV Lottery Visa)- 1 person |
$7.95 |
| 2x2
digital image for US Lottery Visa (DV Lottery Visa)- 2 person |
$14.95 |
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| International
Passport/Visa Photos (Non-USA) |
|
| 6
Passport/Visa photos- 1 person |
$7.95 |
| 12
Passport/Visa photos- 1 person |
$11.95 |
| 6
Passport/Visa photos- 2 persons |
$14.95 |
| 6
Passport/Visa photos- 3 persons |
$26.95 |
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| 6
Canada Citizenship Photos- 1 persons |
$9.95 |
| 6
Canada Citizenship Photos- 2 persons |
$18.95 |
| 6
Canada Citizenship Photos- 3 persons |
$27.95 |
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are for .
Passport and visa photos for other countries are 6 photos for $7.95.
(*For many countries, the size of the passport or visa photos is smaller
compared to US Passport photos and in that case, we will provide you
8 photos for the same charge!)
* 12 photos per person cost $9.95 for USA and $11.95 for any other
country.
Every
additional person on the order is discounted. Please visit our Payment
page and enter your details to check exact rates for you.
How
does OnlinePassportPhoto service work?
We
are glad you asked us. We are passport photo innovators! Unlike
a stand-alone 'Passport Photo Location' in your city/community, we are
present in every corner of the universe! Instead of driving to a passport
photo store or location, you can do few clicks and have passport photos
delivered to you in mail or in an e-mail (so you can print yourself).
Unlike "passport photo experts" at "Walmart Photo Center",
"Costco
Passport Photo" center, "CVS Passport Photo" or at "Walgreens
passport Photos" studios, we
accurately
know US Passport Agency's requirements for a good passport photo (and
requirements for passport photos for almost any country on the earth).
We process your digital photo with various software tools. Our talented
employees, in the USA as well as in India, are expert with photo editing
software like Adobe Photoshop, Picasa etc. They use high-tech photo
techniques to adjust subject, background, light, contract and if needed,
to sharpen the picture. Then the photo gets cropped to passport photo
requirements of your country. Then 6 (or 8) copies of cropped passport
photo gets printed using professional photo printing equipment. The
end result is- one of the best passport photos in the world delivered
to your home.
Please take a note
that there are some online businesses that provide passport photos
or free tools but most of them do not fix or enhance your photos!
They just format pictures and provide passport photos! In our experience,
most of the photos taken by nonprofessional photographers need manual
enhancement/fixing with regards to photo background, removing redeye,
fixing exposure and/or removing shadows created by flash.
We at Online
Passport Photos manually process every photo to eliminate most
of the risk factors with passport photos! Please take this into consideration
while choosing your passport
photo provider.
Here is a sample
of work done on a customer's photo to convert into Canada Immigration
photos:
| Original
photo out of customer's camera |
Fixes |
Converted
Photo |
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*Face straightened
* Background changed to white
* Exposure enhanced to highlight face
* Photo formatted for Canada Immigration requirements
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How can
I get my Passport photos after I place an order with Onlinepassportphotos.com?
OnlinePassportPhotos.com
will fulfill your order in any one of the following ways:
- Mail the photos to your
address on your Google Checkout or PayPal order. This is default method
of fulfillment and you do not need to do anything after placing your
order.
Estimated delivery time: We normally mail the photos within
2 business days with USPS First Class mail which might take
2-5 days depending on the destination city.
- We can make your photos
available for pick up at your local Walgreens/Target/CVs/WalMart store
at no charge or for around 20-25 cents. (No payment required at Walgreens
but CVs/Target/WalMart will require around 20 cents payment at the
time of pickup.) To use this facility, place your order and then click
here and let us know the address of your local store.
Estimated delivery time: You should be able to pick up usually
the same day if ordered earlier in the day, or within 2 business days
in most cases.
- We can email you multiple
passport photos on an exact 4x6 print format. To use this option,
after placing your order, please click here
and tell us to email you your formatted passport photos.
Estimated delivery time: We will email you the photos same
day if ordered earlier in the day, or within 2 business days in most
cases.
Please do not ask us deliver
your photos in more than one way. If you are requesting pickup at your
local store, we will not email you 4x6 formatted print.
No problem but please
keep in mind that we normally do not work over weekends so please
do not place an order for urgent passport photos over the weekend
(unless you have sent us an email and checked with us).
Mailing is the one
which causes most of the delays in our photos to reach you. For urgent
passport photos, please do one of the following:
** After you upload your pictures and make a payment, click
on this form, give us the address of a nearby Walgreens
photo, Target, CVs, WalMart or Rite-Aid store, and we will upload
your photo to be picked up at that neighborhood store within 24 hours.
(We prefer Walgreens store as they allow us to prepay in full so you
do not have to pay anything at the time of pick up; otherwise expect
to pay around 20 cents (total) for 6 passport photos for one person.)
** For urgent needs, we can e-mail you back a high quality converted
passport picture usually within 24 hours. Download it to you thumb
drive and take it to your local "Costco photo", rite-aid
photo, Wall-greens photo, CVs Photo or Kinko's, or to a 1-hour photo
lab and get it printed on a 4 X 6 paper for around 20 cents! One sheet
will get you 6 copies!
How does
'free pick up at a local store' service work?
We are glad you asked us.
Our 'Pick up at a local store' service is innovative, simple, quick
and convenient.
Though you pick up photos at Walgreens (or at CVs/Target/WalMart),
we do most of the work. We use the store only for printing photos.
Unlike local store employees, we know specifications for passport
or visa photos for many countries. We fix your photos, enhance them
for better printing, format them as per guideline of your country
and then we put 6 (sometimes even 8 passport sized photos) on a 4x6
print format. Why 4x6 print format? No store carries 2x2 inch, 35x35mm,
etc, photo papers but, every store prints 4x6 prints! Then we upload
the finished 4x6 format on web-site of your local store (Walgreens.com,
CVS.com or Target.com) and ask them to print 4x6 print(s). We will
send you an email at this stage to let you know that we have uploaded
your photos to your local store.
We put your name, phone#
and email address on the order, and if the store lets us pay online,
we will pay too so you just need to go to the store and pick up photos
which are ready under your name. Walgreens lets us pay online so we
pay for the 4x6 print(s) but at CVs or Target, you will have to pay
around 20 cents. (Not bad, right? Friendly tip: Try to save time and
gas by selecting to pick up at the store that is closest to you).
Once photos are printed,
Walgreens, CVs and Target will email you directly informing that your
prints are ready for pick up. For WalMart, if you provide us a cell
phone number, we can ask the store to text you when photos are ready
for pick up. Normally in most stores, the photos are ready within
an hour or two. Then you can go to the store to pick up 4x6 print(s)
with 6 (or 8 photos) passport photos. The photos are separated by
lines on the 4x6 print so it is easy to cut them along the lines with
any household scissors.
Isn't this a simple and
innovative process? Isn't this the best use of the Internet and the
technological advances? We have no tie-up with Walgreens.com, CVs
or Target but we make the best use of their infrastructure to serve
you efficiently, help you save money and get those difficult-to-get
odd sized photos for India, UK, Japan, Mexico, etc!
Do
you deliver photos outside USA? How does OnlinePassportPhoto service
work for people deployed overseas?
- For people serving overseas who can provide APO address, we gladly
ship photos to their overseas address.
- For others, we have an innovative solution. You do not need to
pay anything extra and you can get photos as quickly as within a
day.
We normally do not mail photos outside US for 3 reasons: (i) the
postal delay which is from 5 to 15 days, (ii) the chances of mail
getting lost in transit, and (iii) it does cost more to ship outside
USA. So we have a fabulous system.
For most of the international customers, we offer passport photos
in the email. We put 6 (sometimes even 8) passport/visa photos on
one 4x6 print format which is then emailed it to the customer. She
can download it to her computer and print it at home or can put
on a CD or a memory card and take it to a local photo lab to get
it printed. The photo-sheet we email is formatted to be an exact
4x6 print (you can even request us to give photos on a different
format and we will gladly do it for you). You just need to get it
printed, as it is, and will cost around 10-20 US cents. Once you
have a print, cut the photos along the lines with any household
scissors and you will have 6 to 8 passport photos in exact size
you need!
Believe us- this is a very simple process and this way you can get
photos within a day or two, at no extra cost.
(Hint: As you now have the 4x6 print format, if you need more photos
in near future, just print the 4x6 print again!! This is like having
unlimited passport/visa photos for free!!!)
Can
I get my digital camera photos pre-approved before I place my order?
Sure. We understand that
many people may like to make sure that their digital picture(s) can
be converted into valid passport photos before they use their credit
card and place an order. Please click
here to send us your digital photo(s) for pre-approval before placing
your order.
Or email your pictures
to
(Please
remember to attach your pictures to the email as a File attachment
instead of as a Photo attachment because some email services
like Hotmail.com automatically reduces resolution of pictures attached
as photos) and include
your first name, last name, purpose of the photo (for US passport,
Indian Passport photos, etc). Then we will look at your photos and
email you back to let you know if we can convert them into great passport
pictures so you can go ahead and place your order with us without
any worries.
(Tip: To save your time, you can also request us in your same email
to email you back a PayPal invoice so you do not need to come back
to our website to complete your order.)
If
OnlinePassportPhoto finds that my uploaded photo can not be converted
into good passport photos, what happens to my payment?
No Worries. If we
find that the photo uploaded with your order can not be converted into
valid passport or visa photos, we will e-mail you and ask you to e-mail
us or upload again new digital photo(s). We will repeat this until we
have a digital photo from you which can be converted into valid passport
photos.
In worst case, if you are
not able to provide us good digital photo(s), we will refund your
payment.
What
are the official guideline for Passport
Photos for US Passport applications? (Same guidelines apply for
US Naturalization/Citizenship photos and VISA photos.)
Two
Passport Photos (Don't
worry. OnlinePassportPhoto.com will take care of this)
Your photographs
must be: 2x2 inches in size (Don't worry.
OnlinePassportPhoto.com will take care of this)
Identical
(Don't worry. OnlinePassportPhoto.com will
take care of this)
- Taken within
the past 6 months, showing current appearance
- Color
Full face,
front view with a plain white or off-white background Between 1 inch
and 1 3/8 inches from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head
(Don't worry. OnlinePassportPhoto.com will
take care of this)
- Taken in normal
street attire Uniforms should not be worn in photographs except religious
attire that is worn daily.
- Do not wear a
hat or headgear that obscures the hair or hairline. If you normally
wear prescription glasses, a hearing device, wig or similar articles,
they should be worn for your picture.
- Dark glasses
or nonprescription glasses with tinted lenses are not acceptable unless
you need them for medical reasons. A medical certificate may be required.


Good Passport Pictures
How can
I take better pictures/photos at home for Passports, citizenship applications
or for VISAs?
* Find a place
that has a white wall to use as background or use white bed sheet
as a background. Stand about 3 feet away from the background.
* Try taking the photos at a time when there is good indirect natural
light.
* Keep camera around 6 feet away from the subject (person whose photo
is being taken) and at subject's eye-level.
* Leave
plenty of space about the head and try to include half of the body
(from head up to waist)
* Force the camera to apply flash. When you are around 6 feet away,
the camera's flash would be more effective.
* Keep around 2 to 3 feet distance between subject and the background
wall to avoid shadows.
* Keep your mouth closed and eyes open (Good tip for a successful
marriage too LOL)
* Take photo in at least 2 MP mode (4 MP recommended).
How
can I take PROFESSIONAL QUALITY pictures at home for Passports?
- Position light
sources on both sides of subject to avoid shadows on face. (Desirable
but no need to worry about it. Use can use a while wall. Stand 4 feet
away from it and fire Flash (Flash Fill in) to take a nice picture)
- Use a light
source to illuminate background behind subject to avoid shadows in
background.
- Camera/ Subject
Position Place camera approximately 4 ft (120 cm) from the subject.
- Have camera
at subject's eye level. Position subject facing the camera.
What
kind of Digital Camera do I need?
Even 1 mega-pixel does the job when it comes to passport
pictures of US Passport:
Digital cameras are principally characterized by their image resolution
or mega-pixel capacities; from low-resolution (less than 1 mega-pixel)
to high-resolution (greater than 1 mega-pixel) to advanced high-resolution
(4 mega-pixels or more). The camera's resolution is the most critical
feature in producing high-quality photographs. For U.S. passport and
visa photographs, a digital camera with a resolution of 1 mega-pixel
will be more than adequate for capturing the image and producing the
final photo that conforms to the dimensions specified on this web
site. These cameras generally have automatic features for controlling
many of the photographic qualities emphasized on the preceding web
pages. Care should be taken not to rely totally on these controls
since each subject — facial characteristics, clothing, facial movement,
etc. — can vary and may not be accommodated for by the automatic settings.
Do I have
to open Google Checkout or PayPal account to use your service?
Google Checkout
account: Click here to
Not required for PayPal. With PayPal, you can pay directly
by clicking on the PayPal payment account page link shown in the image
below:
(This is just an image of what you will see after you click on the Pay
Now button above. The link below is NOT an actual link. You will need
to click on the button above first to see the actual page similar to
image shown below.)

How do
I pay for multiple photo/people in one checkout?
For Google Checkout,
click on the drop-down and select right quantity.
For PayPal, once
you click on the PayNow button, it will take you to the checkout page
where enter right quantity as shown below and click on the Update
Totals button:

I don't use credit cards online. Is there a different
payment format available?
Don't like
to use credit cards online? Here is a simple process for you too. Send
us an e-mail to following e-mail address, attaching your full resolution
picture(s) and full shipping address. We will reply back with where
to mail a Money Order/Banker's check. Here is e-mail address: 
What
is your privacy policy? How long are our photos stored on your servers?
We do not sell your
e-mail address or any personal information to any one else. Period.
The photos uploaded by customers are also deleted after 14 days from
our server. Regarding credit card information, we don't even have
your credit card information. Your payments are very securely processed
by Google Checkout and Paypal. They don't even share your credit card
numbers with us. So rest assured.
We are church,
school group and we need to order passport photos for our members. Is
there a way OnlinePassportPhoto.com
can help us?
Sure.
It works even better to order with OnlinePassportphoto.com
when there is need to
have passport photos for a group of 10 or more people. E-mail us
your needs and we will get back with an offer to not only save money
but also to make your life easier so you can spend your time and resources
on the things your group is formed for. Here is e-mail address: 
Where do I find US Passport
application forms?
The best place
to find Passport forms is travel.state.gov
website. For you convenience, you can click
here to go directly to download latest forms for applying or renewing
a US passport
Where do I find US Passport
information?
Click here
for information about applying or renewing a passport in the US
Passport- Applying
for US Passport for
Babies- some important
tips and information
Passport Photos at Walmart,
Passport Photos at Walgreens or Passport photos at CVs