Ireland passport photo requirements for Passport Online (2026)
Irish Passport Online wants a recent **35×45 mm**-style biometric on a light background. Soft shadows and filters are common reject reasons.
What Passport Online expects
Ireland’s Passport Online / Passport Office guidance centres on a 35 × 45 mm proportion photo with a light, plain background, neutral expression and mouth closed. The photo must look like you today (typically within 1 month for online adults — follow the live checklist).
Use our AI-powered Ireland Passport Photo Tool to auto-crop your image in 3 seconds.
File uploads must be sharp JPEG/PNG within the portal’s size limits; cropped screenshots fail.
Official photo requirements
- Document size applied
- Face alignment checked
- Background prepared
Size
35 × 45 mm
Background
Light grey
Digital photo
413 × 531 px
Background and lighting
Prefer even daylight facing a plain wall. Soft shadow under the chin or behind the head is a frequent automated reject. Avoid cream walls that photograph yellow.
No hats (except religious headwear with a full face visible), no uniforms unless required.
Do not reuse foreign crops
UK digital-code packs, US 2×2 and Türkiye 50×60 will not pass Irish checks without a correct re-crop.
Renewing an Irish passport from abroad? Still use the Irish document preset, not your residence country’s size.
Upload-ready photo with FotoPass
- 1
Sharp front selfie.
- 2
Select Ireland passport.
- 3
The FotoPass Ireland passport tool applies the Irish crop and light background.
- 4
Download and upload in Passport Online within KB limits.
If a counter photo code is offered instead, the same biometric rules apply to the printed twin.
