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Egypt Visa Photo Checker
Egypt rejects roughly one in three visa photo submissions on first attempt. The most common reason isn't a bad photo — it's a photo that doesn't precisely match the 35×45 mm format demanded by the Egyptian Passports, Immigration & Nationality Administration (Mogamma Tahrir and governorate offices). Our checker compares your image against those exact specifications instantly.
Egypt uses a larger 40×60 mm passport photo format with a white background. Egyptian passports are issued by the Passport, Immigration and Nationality Administration. Religious head coverings are permitted but the face must be fully visible. For Schengen visa applications, the standard 35×45 mm format is required.
Use the tool above to upload a candidate photo. We analyse aspect ratio, resolution, background colour and uniformity, sharpness, and run on-device face detection to confirm head size, centering and eye visibility — all in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.
Official Egypt visa photo rules we check
- Required size: 35×45 mm (413×531 px at 300 DPI)
- Required background: White
- Issuing authority: Egyptian Passports, Immigration & Nationality Administration (Mogamma Tahrir and governorate offices)
- Print dimensions: 35×45 mm (1.38×1.77 inches)
- Digital size: 413×531 px at 300 DPI
- Background: White
Common Egypt visa rejection reasons
- Egypt-specific: Submitting only two photos — Egypt requires four identical prints, unlike the two-photo standard elsewhere.
- Egypt-specific: Glossy prints causing scanner glare.
- Egypt-specific: Coloured or patterned garments that blur into the white background at the shoulders.
- Aspect ratio drifted from 35:45 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
Crop precisely to 35×45 mm
Use our free image cropper to pull the exact 35:45 ratio. Position your eyes near the upper third of the frame and leave roughly 5 mm of headroom above the hair — the proportions Egyptian Passports, Immigration & Nationality Administration (Mogamma Tahrir and governorate offices) expects.
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 Egypt rejections.
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 Egypt 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. Egypt biometric matchers explicitly check this.
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Frequently asked questions
How many photos does an Egyptian passport application need?
Four identical 40×60 mm colour photos on matte white-background paper. Two are attached to the application form, one to the fingerprint card, and one is retained by the Passport Administration for the archive file.
What size is an Egyptian passport photo?
40×60 mm — larger than the international 35×45 mm standard and roughly the same as older US photo specs. Ensure your photographer knows the size or you'll receive a returned application at the Mogamma counter.
How accurate is this Egypt visa photo checker?
Our checker runs the same compliance tests automated systems at the Egyptian Passports, Immigration & Nationality Administration (Mogamma Tahrir and governorate offices) 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 Egypt photos?
JPG, JPEG, PNG and WebP up to 20 MB. Egypt's Egyptian Passports, Immigration & Nationality Administration (Mogamma Tahrir and governorate offices) ultimately accepts only JPEG for digital uploads, so if your file is currently PNG or WebP, use our free converter after the check passes.