France Passport from the UK: ignore GOV.UK sizes
Scope lock: this URL is for France Passport travel-document photos only — licence and national-ID copy live on their own pages.
Many people in the United Kingdom order a France 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 France specifications on this page do.
This article is scoped to France Passport as a France travel / passport photo (35 × 45 mm, Light grey). Driving-licence and national-ID wording is not pasted here.
British applicants routinely paste a 35 × 45 mm HMPO-style portrait into a France form. That portrait is legal for a UK passport — and wrong for France Passport at 35 × 45 mm on Light grey.
Official framing for France Passport on FotoPass is 35 × 45 mm with a Light grey 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 France Passport, upload here, then attach the export to the France online tool or take it to your London / Belfast / Edinburgh consular packet — not a high-street “UK passport” booth ticket.
35 × 45 mm vs France Passport geometry
UK passport guidance is a tall rectangle. France Passport needs 35 × 45 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 France Passport file on FotoPass for France passport filings.
Filing France Passport from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
Online France passport renewals accept digital photos when the crop matches France rules. Embassy / consulate appointments serving UK residents still expect the same 35 × 45 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 France Passport.
France passport photo — what people search
This page is scoped to France Passport only: 35 × 45 mm on a Light grey background. Licence or national-ID crops belong on their own document pages.
Queries such as “France passport photo size” and “biometric passport photo” should land here — not on a driving-licence tool with a coincidentally similar millimetre size.
France passport note
ANTS / France e-photo rules usually expect 35 × 45 mm. France Passport uses 35 × 45 mm / Light grey.
UK → France passport photo gate
- Form asks for France Passport, not a UK passport photo
- Canvas is 35 × 45 mm, not 35 × 45 mm
- Backdrop is Light grey (not cream booth paper)
- No stretched HMPO JPEG
- Neutral expression; glasses policy checked against France passport rules
- Selector still shows France Passport while the site market is United Kingdom
Treat UK and France photo products as two different SKUs — this page only manufactures the France Passport passport one.