China Passport from the UK: ignore GOV.UK sizes
Scope lock: this URL is for China Passport travel-document photos only — licence and national-ID copy live on their own pages.
Many people in the United Kingdom order a China Passport while renewing from abroad, booking a US consular appointment, or submitting an online US form. GOV.UK photo rules do not apply to that file — only China specifications on this page do.
This article is scoped to China Passport as a China travel / passport photo (33 × 48 mm, White). Driving-licence and national-ID wording is not pasted here.
British applicants routinely paste a 35 × 45 mm HMPO-style portrait into a China form. That portrait is legal for a UK passport — and wrong for China Passport at 33 × 48 mm on White.
Official framing for China Passport on FotoPass is 33 × 48 mm with a White background. Treat any other country’s booth print as a different template.
Practical UK workflow: selfie in daylight near a window (avoid yellow tungsten alone), confirm China Passport, upload here, then attach the export to the China online tool or take it to your London / Belfast / Edinburgh consular packet — not a high-street “UK passport” booth ticket.
35 × 45 mm vs China Passport geometry
UK passport guidance is a tall rectangle. China Passport needs 33 × 48 mm (exact millimetres above). Phone “perspective” tools cannot invent the missing width legally.
If a UK chemist already printed 35 × 45 mm, leave that print for UK renewals. Generate a separate China Passport file on FotoPass for China passport filings.
Filing China Passport from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
Online China passport renewals accept digital photos when the crop matches China rules. Embassy / consulate appointments serving UK residents still expect the same 33 × 48 mm standard — bring the newest download, not last year’s holiday snap.
Compress for portal kilobyte caps only after FotoPass has set the biometric frame for China Passport.
China passport photo — what people search
This page is scoped to China Passport only: 33 × 48 mm on a White background. Licence or national-ID crops belong on their own document pages.
Queries such as “China passport photo size” and “biometric passport photo” should land here — not on a driving-licence tool with a coincidentally similar millimetre size.
China passport note
Mainland passport guidance often differs from visa photos. Keep China Passport at 33 × 48 mm / White.
UK → China passport photo gate
- Form asks for China Passport, not a UK passport photo
- Canvas is 33 × 48 mm, not 35 × 45 mm
- Backdrop is White (not cream booth paper)
- No stretched HMPO JPEG
- Neutral expression; glasses policy checked against China passport rules
- Selector still shows China Passport while the site market is United Kingdom
Treat UK and China photo products as two different SKUs — this page only manufactures the China Passport passport one.