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New Zealand visa photo
1200 × 1600, under 3 MB. Immigration New Zealand’s own numbers.
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How to make a New Zealand visa 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 × 1600 JPEG.
What happens to your file
Immigration New Zealand states the rules for a visa photograph, and these are its words: “The photo must have dimensions between 900 x 1200 pixels and 2250 x 3000 pixels.” — Immigration New Zealand’s photo guide. “taken in portrait mode with 3:4 aspect ratio” — the department’s own web page. “in front of a plain, light-coloured (not white) background” — the photo guide that page links to. This page writes exactly 1200 × 1600 pixels, inside every bound Immigration New Zealand publishes.
New Zealand is the one country here that explicitly rules OUT a white background. Its photo guide says light-coloured and not white, in those words, which is the opposite of what most countries ask for and the opposite of what most people will do by default.
Its two official sources disagree three times over. The web page says the file must be between 512 KB and 3.14 MB; the guide it links says 500 KB and 3 MB. The page says the face covers 70 to 80 per cent of the image; the guide says the head’s length fills 75 per cent and its width 70. And only the guide gives pixel dimensions at all.
This page writes 1200 × 1600 at 512 KB to 3 MB, which satisfies both documents at once.
A photograph taken by a professional may be up to 10 MB, by a third figure on the same page.
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, light-coloured background — and explicitly not white. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off Immigration New Zealand’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 New Zealand visa need?
The photo must have dimensions between 900 x 1200 pixels and 2250 x 3000 pixels. This page writes 1200 × 1600 pixels, inside those bounds.
What background does it need?
A plain, light-coloured background — and explicitly not white. 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 512 KB?
Immigration New Zealand 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 New Zealand gives the printed photograph as 35 × 45 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": 1600,
"background": "#ffffff",
"max_bytes": 3145728,
"min_bytes": 524288
}
}'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.