About FreePassport

What this is

freepassport.photo does one thing: it turns an ordinary photo into a passport or visa photo that meets the published rules for the document you choose — the print size, the head height, the background colour, and for online forms the pixel and file-size limits. Neighbouring jobs — removing a background from any picture, cropping, resizing, compressing, converting HEIC — live on our other site, is.tools, and are linked from the footer.

Everything runs inside your browser. The person is separated from the background, the crop is measured and the file is encoded — all on your own device. There is no upload, no account, no watermark and no charge for the download, because there is no server doing the work that could need any of those.

Where the rules come from

Every size, head-height, eye-height and background figure on this site is taken from the government page for that document — the US Department of State, GOV.UK, the Government of Canada, the Australian Passport Office, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mynaportal, the Chinese consular service, Taiwan's Bureau of Consular Affairs, Russia's Gosuslugi and Spain's Ministry of the Interior — and each page links to that source with the date it was last checked. Rules a program cannot measure, such as a neutral expression or the ban on glasses, are quoted as reminders rather than silently assumed.

Documents are added only when their official page has been read and the figures copied from it. A country that is missing is missing because that check has not been done yet, not because the size was unknown. If a figure here disagrees with the official page, tell us and it will be corrected.

What you can expect

The tool gets the geometry right and draws the official lines on the frame so you can see the head sits inside them. It does not guarantee acceptance: whether a photo passes also depends on lighting, expression and recency, which are yours to check against the reminders on the page. There is no support desk, but every message sent through the contact page is read, and what breaks gets fixed.

The site is free and is supported by the ads on the page. We do not sell prints, do not collect e-mail addresses, and do not run affiliate links. The privacy policy says exactly what is measured and by whom.

Why it is built this way

Passport-photo websites charge for a file whose production cost — a background replacement and a crop — is close to zero, and pharmacies charge about the same for two prints. Moving the work into the browser removes even that small cost, which is what makes "free" honest rather than a free-tier hook. It also makes the privacy claim verifiable: open your browser's network panel while a photo is processed and there is no request carrying it.

The tool is meant to match the best desktop equivalent, not merely to work: automatic head placement you can correct by dragging the photo against the official crown and chin lines, output at exactly 300 dpi, file sizes encoded to the form's limit, and a 4×6 sheet that prints at any kiosk. If you find a case where it does a poor job, tell us — that is how most improvements here start.

Known issues

Hats, very high collars and hair that hides the jawline can put the automatic placement a few millimetres off; drag the photo until the crown and chin sit on the template lines. Photos with more than one person are not handled. On some phones and older computers processing takes 15–25 seconds. Country coverage grows only as official pages are verified: Schengen visas, India and others are next.