Visa Photo

I live in Hawaii, so it's been difficult to find someone specializing in different-sized passport photos. Fortunately, I came across Wallgreens just now and they had a sign that said "Passport Photos - US and Other Countries and Sizes."

A man there took my photo and told me to wait while he processed it. Once he was done, he called me over and I could tell the photos looked a bit large. I asked him about it and he told me that the computer told him not to crop the photos. I just got home and had more time to analyze the photo I got (see below) and I noticed that there are three photos: the left most is 35mm x 45mm with a circle around the face to verify it's within the 29mm to 34mm range; the two right most photos are roughly 40mm to 50mm (5mm larger than what I need).

So, I'm wondering if these are acceptable or not. It seems somewhat official, and I would like to think someone at Walgreens corporate would have ensured that this is acceptable to the UKBA, but with the visa fee at $1,190 I don't want to get denied for something as trivial as my photo being 5mm too large.

Anyway, have a look. I pixelated my face, as I'm sure you can tell.

it looks like my head measures 20 x 25 on 35 x 45 photo. my photo printed from an outside was straightaway rejected by vfs and they had a booth there to take photos.

Photograph guidance



regards

sushdmehta wrote:Photograph guidance



regards

You don't think I've read this?

Many American applicants have applied with American sized photographs and I don't know of anyone who was refused a visa for this reason. The US standard size is acceptable. Don't worry about it.

ElenaW wrote:Many American applicants have applied with American sized photographs and I don't know of anyone who was refused a visa for this reason. The US standard size is acceptable. Don't worry about it.

Thank you very much for the explanation!