The Kosmos Visa Application Centre provides a Biometric ICAO-approved photography service. For further information please visit 'additional service'
- • Taken against a light grey or cream background;
- • Without a border;
- • A close up of your head and top of your shoulders so that your face takes up 70-80% of the photograph;
- • In sharp focus and clear;
- • Be undamaged (not torn, creased or marked);
- • Subject facing forward, looking straight at the camera;
- • 4,5 cm high x 3,5 cm wide;
- • Show your natural skin tone;
- • Have appropriate brightness and contrast;
- • Be a recent true likeness of the subject, taken within the last 6 months;
- • Show the full head, without any covering unless worn for religious or medical reasons (if a headscarf is worn chin, nose, eyes and eyebrows must not be covered; the forehead should be uncovered to the extent that the shape of the face is apparent);
- • Taken without hat or cap;
- • The eyes must not be covered by hair;
- • Show subject facing square on to the camera, not looking over the shoulder or tilted, and showing both edges of the face clearly;
- • Free from effects such as shadows, ‘redeye’ or airbrushing;
- • Photos must be taken without glasses
- • Of each person on their own (and without objects such as dummies or toys, or other people visible);
- • With a neutral expression with the mouth closed (no grinning, frowning or raised eyebrows);
- • Be free from airbrushing or similar enhancement (for example photographs must not be ‘photo-shopped’, ‘touched-up’ or otherwise digitally altered).