We check your photo against the rules the Colombian online passport form publishes, frame it on your face in the 4 x 5 cm shape, replace the background with plain white where the photo allows it, and save it as a JPEG within the size the form accepts. Where the photo allows it, we may also reduce a colour cast from the light and change its overall brightness or contrast once. If you ask for it and confirm that such a photo may be rejected, we soften shine on the skin. We never change your features or the shape of your face. You upload the photo with your application yourself, and the Cancillería decides whether it is accepted.
Lo que el organismo no publica
- No page read publishes a head height, eye line, pixel size, head covering rule or rule on uniforms for the online application.
- The 307,200 byte limit and the file name ending in ".jpg" come from the form's own upload script. No published text states them, and what the server accepts after upload was not tested.
- The guide asks that the photo follow the ICAO recommendations: "debe cumplir con las recomendaciones de la OACI (Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional) sobre el documento de viaje (Estándar Reconocimiento Facial ISO/IEC 19794-5)." It names no clause, and no page read says whether a replaced background is accepted.
- The resolution that set these photo rules (Resolución 6888 de 2021, art. 11) was repealed by Resolución 10927 de 2026, which has no photo rule for the online path. The rules used here are the ones the form and the guide still publish. Whether Resolución 10927 is published in the Diario Oficial was not verified.
- No page read says whether a photo you took yourself is accepted, and none asks for a photographer.
- No page read says that the uploaded photo is the one printed in the passport. The passport is collected in person at the office.
Lo que recibes
- Your original photo. The file you uploaded, unchanged.
- Photo file for the online application. Your photo framed on your face in the 4 x 5 cm shape and saved as a .jpg file of at most 307,200 bytes, the limit of the online form.
- Your checked report. Every rule we measured, what we found and which rules only a person can judge, with the official wording next to each one.
Fuentes
Fuentes revisadas el 2026-09-22. Lo expide: Colombia: Cancillería.
- Cancillería: Pasaporte en línea, photo panel of the online form(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
- Cancillería: Pasaporte en línea, eligibility panel of the online form(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
- Cancillería: SITAC, Guía de Usuario: Pasaporte en Línea (PDF, 20/10/2025)(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
- Cancillería: SITAC, online passport application form(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
- Cancillería: Pasaportes, Requisitos, section "Solicitud de Pasaporte en Línea"(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
- Cancillería: Pasaportes, Preguntas frecuentes(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
- Resolución 10927 del 4 de agosto de 2026, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores(se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Lo que no prometemos
No podemos prometer que un organismo acepte una foto y no presentamos solicitudes en tu nombre. La decisión es siempre del organismo emisor.