About PassportCrop
Built and maintained by one person, with every country's specification traced back to the government that issues the document.
PassportCrop is a free tool for cropping passport and visa photos to the exact size required by 32 countries and visa programmes, including the USA, UK, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka, plus a range of other document photo types. It was built after running into the same frustration most people hit: existing tools either upload your photo to an unknown server, charge for a basic crop, or apply AI "enhancement" that several passport offices explicitly reject.
How it works
Everything runs in your browser using the HTML canvas API. When you choose a photo, it gets decoded and cropped locally on your device. It's never uploaded to a server, because there's no server-side processing step in this tool at all. Close the tab and the photo is gone from memory. Nothing is stored, logged, or transmitted anywhere.
What this tool does not do
- No AI background replacement or face retouching. Several countries, the UK included, explicitly disallow AI-altered photos.
- No accounts, no watermarks, no paywall.
- No automatic pass/fail compliance check. Final acceptance is always up to the issuing government agency, not this tool.
Why India gets extra depth
The India passport photo page on this site goes further than the other country pages because it's written with direct, first-hand familiarity with the Passport Seva application process, not generic guidance copied from a template.
Who writes and maintains this site
Saurabh Sharma
Site maintainer and content writer
I build and maintain PassportCrop on my own: the cropper itself, every country page, and the research behind each specification. I am not a photographer or an immigration adviser, and this site is not legal advice — what I do is read the primary source, record exactly what it says, and build a crop guide that matches it.
How the specifications are researched
Every measurement on this site — the print size, the chin-to-crown head height, the background rule, the file size cap — is checked against the authority that actually issues the document: HM Passport Office for the UK, travel.state.gov and the USCIS form instructions for the United States, the German Foreign Office's Merkblatt for Schengen visas, and the equivalent national body elsewhere. Each entry in the source code carries a dated note naming the document it came from and quoting the relevant line.
Where a primary source cannot be read directly, I say so on the page rather than quietly presenting third-party figures as official. Some government sites publish their specifications inside scanned PDFs or render them through scripts that cannot be parsed, and in those cases the page states that the figures are cross-checked third-party consensus and should be confirmed against the portal you are actually applying through. You will find that disclosure on the OCI, PAN and MyKad pages, among others.
Specifications change. If you spot a figure on this site that no longer matches what your passport office publishes, telling me is genuinely useful — corrections get made and the dated source note updated.
Questions or found an error in the requirements listed on this site? See the contact page.