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Brazil Passport Photo Checker
Compliance for Brazil passport photos is unforgiving. The Polícia Federal (Federal Police of Brazil) pushes most submissions through automated biometric matchers, and even tiny issues — a slightly off background tone, a head 2 mm too small, soft focus — are enough to send your application back to the start.
This page runs all the checks they run. Drop in your photo above and you'll get an instant compliance report listing every potential rejection reason, prioritised by severity, with a fix path for each one.
Brazil uses the 50×70 mm format for its passports, issued by the Polícia Federal. Brazilian passport photos require a white background with no shadows, and the applicant's face should occupy approximately 70% of the image. Brazil has specific requirements for children under 5, allowing a parent to hold the child but remain out of frame. Digital submissions require a minimum resolution of 600 DPI.
Official Brazil passport photo rules we check
- Required size: 50×70 mm (591×827 px at 300 DPI)
- Required background: White
- Issuing authority: Polícia Federal (Federal Police of Brazil)
- Print dimensions: 50×70 mm (1.97×2.76 inches)
- Digital size: 591×827 px at 300 DPI
- Background: White
Common Brazil passport rejection reasons
- Brazil-specific: Submitting 35×45 mm prints — Brazil requires 5×7 cm.
- Brazil-specific: Photos with the head covered for non-religious reasons.
- Brazil-specific: Digital prints on plain paper — only glossy photographic paper is accepted.
- Aspect ratio drifted from 50:70 after a careless crop
- Soft focus or motion blur from a handheld phone shot in low light
- Background that looked white to your eye but reads as cream or grey to a calibrated scanner
How to pass the checker
Re-shoot in flat, even lighting
Stand 1.5 m from a plain wall matching the required white background. Use two soft light sources (or window light through a thin curtain) on either side of your face to eliminate the shadow that triggers most Brazil rejections.
Crop precisely to 50×70 mm
Use our free image cropper to pull the exact 50:70 ratio. Position your eyes near the upper third of the frame and leave roughly 5 mm of headroom above the hair — the proportions Polícia Federal (Federal Police of Brazil) expects.
Replace the background if it's the wrong colour
If our checker flags the background as the wrong shade, run the image through our background remover and place it on the exact white Brazil requires. This single fix resolves about 30% of all rejections we see.
Verify face coverage with the checker
Re-upload the corrected photo and confirm the face coverage score lands between 60–80%. If it's still low, crop in tighter; if too high, add headroom. Brazil biometric matchers explicitly check this.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Brazil take the passport photo at the Federal Police office?
Most Polícia Federal posts now capture the photo digitally during your appointment, but you can still bring your own 5×7 cm glossy print as a backup, especially at smaller posts where the on-site equipment may be unavailable.
What is the Brazilian passport photo size in centimetres?
Brazil requires a 5×7 cm (50×70 mm) photo on glossy photographic paper with a pure white background — the same size used by Canada and significantly larger than the European 35×45 mm standard.
How accurate is this Brazil passport photo checker?
Our checker runs the same compliance tests automated systems at the Polícia Federal (Federal Police of Brazil) use — dimensions, aspect ratio, background uniformity, sharpness, face detection (powered by Google's MediaPipe), face coverage and centering. A "compliant" verdict here is a strong indicator your photo will pass; a "fail" verdict effectively guarantees rejection. The only checks we cannot perform are colour calibration on your specific monitor and physical paper finish.
Does ImageGates upload my photo to a server?
No — every check runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your photo never leaves your device. That is unique among most online checkers and is why the tool also works offline once loaded.
What file formats does the checker accept for Brazil photos?
JPG, JPEG, PNG and WebP up to 20 MB. Brazil's Polícia Federal (Federal Police of Brazil) ultimately accepts only JPEG for digital uploads, so if your file is currently PNG or WebP, use our free converter after the check passes.