Canadian dual citizens & travellers: Germany Passport sizes
Scope lock: this URL is for Germany Passport travel-document photos only — licence and national-ID copy live on their own pages.
In Canada, US germany passport requests are common for dual citizens and frequent travellers. Canadian passport dimensions (often taller prints) are a frequent mix-up with Germany square or ratio crops.
This article is scoped to Germany Passport as a Germany travel / passport photo (35 × 45 mm, Light grey). Driving-licence and national-ID wording is not pasted here.
Canada’s common 50 × 70 mm passport strip is taller than Germany Passport at 35 × 45 mm. Dual citizens who recycle the Canadian print into a Germany form get predictable rejections.
German-speaking passport standards commonly use 35 × 45 mm with a light background. Germany Passport on this page instead targets 35 × 45 mm and Light grey — do not assume an EU booth print is interchangeable.
From any province: selfie → Germany Passport selected → upload on this page → use the export for Germany online tools or a Germany appointment while living in Canada.
50 × 70 mm Canada vs Germany Passport
Do not trim a Canadian strip into another shape in Preview/Photos — head-size percentages break. Regenerate with Germany Passport so 35 × 45 mm is authored correctly.
Background must read Light grey for this passport document even if your Canadian studio used a cooler grey.
Cross-border filing habits for Germany Passport
Keep separate folders: “CA passport” vs “Germany Passport”. Mixing filenames is how the wrong JPEG gets uploaded at midnight.
Germany passport photo — what people search
This page is scoped to Germany Passport only: 35 × 45 mm on a Light grey background. Licence or national-ID crops belong on their own document pages.
Queries such as “Germany passport photo size” and “biometric passport photo” should land here — not on a driving-licence tool with a coincidentally similar millimetre size.
35×45 biometric (passport only)
“35x45 passport photo” searches belong on Germany Passport (35 × 45 mm, Light grey) — not on the licence page.
Canada → Germany passport gate
- Germany Passport explicitly required
- 35 × 45 mm export (not 50 × 70 mm)
- Light grey backdrop
- No recycled IRCC/Canada passport JPEG
- Neutral face, no sports-jersey uniforms
- Site market Canada / photo law Germany
Canadian residence does not unlock Canadian millimetres on a Germany Passport form — use this page’s Germany crop.