Your India e-Visa or OCI photo, in one go

Before you take it

1. Someone else takes it, about 1.5 m away, phone at your eye level.
2. Light grey or off-white wall, plain, no shadows. The OCI rules say a light colour, not white; the e-Visa accepts either.
3. Glasses off. Full face, eyes open, mouth closed.
4. Keep your whole head in the photo, from the top of your hair to your chin, with space above it.

What we check and do

• One face, no glasses, head straight and facing the camera, eyes open, neutral expression, plain light background, even lighting.
• Head size: chin to top of head between 70% and 82% of the photo’s height, which covers the OCI’s “80% coverage of face” and the e-Visa’s full head.
• We crop to a square and resize to 600 × 600 pixels, JPEG under 200 KB: inside both forms’ limits.
• We never edit your face or background. The rules forbid it, and edited photos get refused.

What we can't check

• Rimless glasses, glare, small shadows (we only catch a strong shadow on one side), hair covering the eyes: look at the photo yourself.
• Whether the photo is less than 6 months old, and whether it looks like you today.

Our measurements are estimates. Only the Government of India decides whether a photo is accepted: we help you catch problems, we don't guarantee acceptance.