Passport photo requirements
The most recent published guidance per portal. Set the matching ceiling in Sukat and it hits it exactly.
Compress your passport photo
Crop to ratio, fix the background if needed, hit the country's KB ceiling — one workflow.
Upload your photo
Drop a JPG, PNG, HEIC, or WebP onto Sukat's drop zone. iPhone HEIC works directly — no need to convert first.
Crop and (if needed) replace the background
Click Crop and pick 1:1 for the US (square) or free crop with the dimension hint for 35×45 mm. If your background is busy, click Remove Background — Sukat segments you in-browser with a local AI model and offers a colour picker. Pick white.
Set the KB target and download
Choose JPEG and type the country's ceiling into Maximum File Size (240 for the US, 300 for India and PH, 500 for Schengen, and so on). Click Convert & Download. Sukat binary-searches for the highest quality that fits.
When you need a compressed passport photo
The 35×45 mm / 2×2 inch frame is reused well beyond actual passports.
- New or renewed passport applications — every country's online portal requires a digital passport photo at a specific KB and pixel size.
- Visa applications — Schengen, US DS-160, Canada IRCC, UK eVisa, Australia ETA, and most embassy portals share the 35×45 mm spec.
- Government IDs — driver's licences, voter cards, national IDs (Aadhaar in India, PhilSys in PH, MyKad in Malaysia) reuse the same standard.
- Recruitment exams — UPSC, SSC, IBPS, civil service and state PSC portals across India accept the same OTR-format photograph.
- Educational applications — university admissions, scholarship portals, and student visa applications.
- Professional licensing — bar exams, medical councils, professional certification bodies.
- Online banking and KYC — many fintechs and banks request a passport-style headshot for digital onboarding.
For the UPSC OTR portal specifically, the dedicated UPSC Photo & Signature Compressor covers the full photo + signature workflow. For just the signature side, see Compress Signature to 20KB.
Why Sukat for passport photos
Five things this tool gets right that most "passport photo online" sites get wrong.
Hits the KB ceiling exactly
Generic resizers ask for a quality percentage and let you guess. Sukat reverses that — set 240 KB, 300 KB, 500 KB, whatever the portal demands, and the algorithm searches for the highest quality that fits. You won't bounce off the upload three times because your file is 312 KB instead of 300.
Background-fix built in
A surprising number of rejections are background-related, not size-related. Sukat's Remove Background button runs an AI segmentation model in your browser, isolates you, then offers a colour picker so you can drop in pure white — exactly what most portals require.
HEIC-aware
If you took the photo on iPhone, you don't need to convert HEIC to JPG first; Sukat decodes it directly. Most online passport tools fail silently on HEIC input.
Privacy that matches the document
Your passport photo is identity-grade. Sukat runs entirely in your browser — your photo never reaches a server, no account, no email. Switch to airplane mode after the page loads to verify.
Multilingual UI
Available in 10 languages, including Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Filipino, Indonesian — most passport-photo tools are English-only.