The consulate takes its own photo for the passport, so most applicants do not need this. We check your photo against the rules the SRE sets for its own capture and frame it at 35 x 45 mm by the ICAO standard, with copies on a 4 x 6 inch sheet. Where the photo allows it, we replace the background with white, the colour of the photo the SRE takes itself. No colour is published for a photo you bring. 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. The consulate decides what it accepts.
Ce que l’administration ne publie pas
- The SRE publishes no size, head height, eye line, file format, file size, recency rule or number of prints for an ordinary passport photo, because it takes the photo itself. The 35 x 45 mm frame used here is the ICAO default.
- The rules listed here (white background, no glasses, head uncovered, nothing covering the face) are the Reglamento rules for the photo taken in the office. No source says they apply to a photo you bring.
- No source read says anything about digitally altered photos. The only alteration rule in the Reglamento (art. 9) concerns the documents handed in for the application.
- dof.gob.mx could not be reached on 2026-09-20, so amendments to the Reglamento after 17-08-2016 are unchecked. The text read is an SRE-hosted consolidated copy.
- Legacy consulate files from before the 2016 reform (a Frankfurt photo sheet with 45 mm x 35 mm, a Washington flyer asking for two prints) are still hosted on SRE servers. They are not current evidence and are not used here.
- No page read says that photos must not be brought to a consulate. Most consulate pages returned a bot-protection page on 2026-09-20, so we could not check whether any consulate still asks for prints.
Ce que vous recevez
- Your original photo. The file you uploaded, unchanged.
- 35 x 45 mm photo. Your photo framed on your face and sized to 35 x 45 mm, ready for a photo lab. The authority publishes no single size, so we use the 35 x 45 mm ICAO portrait.
- 4×6 inch print sheet. Copies of the 35 x 45 mm photo laid out on one 4×6 inch sheet, for a photo lab.
- What happens at the appointment. The SRE rule for the photo taken at your appointment, in its own words.
Sources officielles
Sources consultées le 2026-09-20. Délivré par : Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores.
- Reglamento de Pasaportes y del Documento de Identidad y Viaje (SRE-hosted consolidated text)(s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
- SRE: Trámite de Pasaporte desde el extranjero (gob.mx)(s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
- SRE: Pasaportes (Embajada de México en Países Bajos)(s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
Ce que nous ne promettons pas
Nous ne pouvons pas promettre qu’une administration acceptera une photo, et nous ne déposons aucune demande à votre place. C’est toujours l’administration qui décide.