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UAE visa photo
600 × 600, under 2 MB. The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship’s own numbers.
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How to make a UAE 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 600 × 600 JPEG.
What happens to your file
The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship states the rules for a visa photograph, and these are its words: “Personal photo must be minimum 600x600 pixels in dimension and 1200x1200 maximum, In a square aspect ratio (height must equal width) with minimum 96 dpi” — the text the authority shows on its own photo upload control. “A recent personal photo with a white background” — the authority’s services guide, on the tourism entry permit. This page writes exactly 600 × 600 pixels, inside every bound the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship publishes.
This one is hard to find and worth stating precisely: the specification is the sentence the authority prints on the upload control itself, in the portal where entry permits are actually filed. There is no separate specification page.
The portal accepts JPG and JPEG only — not PNG — and caps attachments at 2 MB.
Two of the authority’s own documents disagree about the background. Its FAQ, its services guide and the federal portal all say white; the photo leaflet it links from that same upload control says “plain light-coloured”, and illustrates it with blue. The same disagreement exists in the Arabic editions, so it is not a translation artefact. White is what the visa-specific documents say, and white is what this page assumes.
The widely repeated 3.5 × 4.5 cm is not the foreign national’s figure. In the authority’s own guide it appears only under passport and identity services for citizens.
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 white background. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship’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 the United Arab Emirates visa need?
Personal photo must be minimum 600x600 pixels in dimension and 1200x1200 maximum, In a square aspect ratio (height must equal width) with minimum 96 dpi This page writes 600 × 600 pixels, inside those bounds.
What background does it need?
A white 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.
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": 600,
"out_height": 600,
"background": "#ffffff",
"max_bytes": 2097152
}
}'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.