About United States application photo rules
United States authorities publish strict photo and document upload specifications for visa, passport, exam and identity-document applications. The exact rules — file format (JPEG, PNG), pixel dimensions, aspect ratio, file-size band (kilobytes), and sometimes background colour — vary by form. When an upload fails the message is usually unhelpful ("invalid image" or "size out of range"), so applicants end up retrying blindly with different photos until something works.
The presets below remove that guesswork. Each one is mapped from the official United States application bulletin or photo-spec page (linked on the per-preset page) and enforces the same rules the upload portal does. Drop your photo, and the tool resizes, centre-crops to the required aspect ratio, and compresses to land inside the file-size band — in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
If a spec changes mid-cycle (some Indian exam authorities update photo rules between sessions) or you spot a discrepancy, please let us know and we'll update within 1–2 weeks.
Visa
- U.S. visa DS-160 digital photo
JPEG · 240 KB · 1200×1200 px · aspect 1:1 - U.S. Diversity Visa entry photo
JPEG · 240 KB · aspect 1:1
Passport
- U.S. online passport renewal photo
JPEG/PNG/HEIC/HEIF · 54–10240 KB
How it works
Click any preset above to open a page with the photo tool pre-configured. Drop your image, and we'll resize, centre-crop, and compress to land inside the spec. Everything happens in your browser — your photo is never uploaded.
Don't see your form?
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