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Canada passport photo
1200 × 1800, under 5 MB. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s own numbers.
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How to make a Canada passport photo
- Drop a photo of yourself against a plain, evenly lit wall.
- Move the box so your head and shoulder tops fill it.
- Press Make photo and download the 1200 × 1800 JPEG.
What happens to your file
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada states the rules for a passport photograph, and these are its words: “have a 3:2 aspect ratio with the camera oriented in portrait mode” — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. “be at least 1,800 pixels high by 1,200 pixels wide … be no larger than 4,500 pixels high by 3,000 pixels wide” — the same page. “be between 200 KB and 5 MB in size” — the same page. “have a chin-to-crown (top of head) measurement that’s between 45% and 50% of the photo’s height” — the same page. This page writes exactly 1200 × 1800 pixels, inside every bound Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada publishes.
This is the passport rule. A Canadian VISA photograph has no digital specification at all — the department states 35 mm by 45 mm printed and nothing about pixels or file size.
The printed passport photo is 50 mm by 70 mm, which is not the 3:2 shape of the digital one. They are genuinely different requirements for the same document.
An older departmental PDF says 200 KB to 4 MB and describes itself as a pilot. The live page says 5 MB and is the current one.
The crop and the encode happen in your browser. A photograph of your face, attached to an application, is exactly the kind of file that should not travel to a stranger’s server, and here it does not.
What we cannot check for you: that the photograph is recent, in colour, evenly lit, and taken against a plain white or light-coloured background. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s own page on 2026-09-10; if it has changed since, the authority is right and we are not.
Questions
What size photo does a Canada passport need?
have a 3:2 aspect ratio with the camera oriented in portrait mode This page writes 1200 × 1800 pixels, inside those bounds.
What background does it need?
A plain white or light-coloured background. A plain wall in even daylight is the easiest way to get one — stand a good arm’s length in front of it so your own shadow falls away.
Is my photograph uploaded anywhere?
No. A JPG, PNG or WebP is cropped and encoded by your own browser; the page works with the network unplugged. Only a format the browser cannot decode, such as HEIC from an iPhone, takes the cloud path, and the page says so before it does.
Why does the file have to be at least 200 KB?
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada sets a floor as well as a ceiling, to stop people uploading a thumbnail. This page reaches it by keeping quality high rather than padding the file, and tells you if a photograph is too plain to get there.
Can I print this one instead?
Yes. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada gives the printed photograph as 50 × 70 mm, and the file this page makes prints to that size cleanly.
Do it once, not on every form
A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
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Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "image.id-photo",
"options": {
"out_width": 1200,
"out_height": 1800,
"background": "#ffffff",
"max_bytes": 5242880,
"min_bytes": 204800
}
}'The same operation, image.id-photo — A photograph for an identity document: exactly the pixels an authority asks for, under exactly the bytes it allows. Crop it by eye, or let the subject centre it. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.