Switzerland Passport from the UK: ignore GOV.UK sizes
Scope lock: this URL is for Switzerland Passport travel-document photos only — licence and national-ID copy live on their own pages.
Many people in the United Kingdom order a Switzerland 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 Switzerland specifications on this page do.
This article is scoped to Switzerland Passport as a Switzerland 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 Switzerland form. That portrait is legal for a UK passport — and wrong for Switzerland Passport at 35 × 45 mm on Light grey.
German-speaking passport standards commonly use 35 × 45 mm with a light background. Switzerland Passport on this page instead targets 35 × 45 mm and Light grey — do not assume an EU booth print is interchangeable.
Practical UK workflow: selfie in daylight near a window (avoid yellow tungsten alone), confirm Switzerland Passport, upload here, then attach the export to the Switzerland online tool or take it to your London / Belfast / Edinburgh consular packet — not a high-street “UK passport” booth ticket.
35 × 45 mm vs Switzerland Passport geometry
UK passport guidance is a tall rectangle. Switzerland 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 Switzerland Passport file on FotoPass for Switzerland passport filings.
Filing Switzerland Passport from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
Online Switzerland passport renewals accept digital photos when the crop matches Switzerland 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 Switzerland Passport.
Switzerland passport photo — what people search
This page is scoped to Switzerland Passport only: 35 × 45 mm on a Light grey background. Licence or national-ID crops belong on their own document pages.
Queries such as “Switzerland 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 Switzerland Passport (35 × 45 mm, Light grey) — not on the licence page.
Switzerland passport note
Swiss passport photos commonly use 35 × 45 mm-class framing when that matches 35 × 45 mm; this page still binds Switzerland Passport.
UK → Switzerland passport photo gate
- Form asks for Switzerland 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 Switzerland passport rules
- Selector still shows Switzerland Passport while the site market is United Kingdom
Treat UK and Switzerland photo products as two different SKUs — this page only manufactures the Switzerland Passport passport one.