Canada Passport Photo Generator

Canadian passport and visa specifications differ significantly from United States and European standards. The Canadian Passport Program enforces a distinct 50 mm wide by 70 mm high (2 × 2 3/4 inches) dimension, requiring the head height from chin to crown to measure strictly between 31 mm and 36 mm.

This tool sets the exact 50 × 70 mm aspect ratio and provides real-time head height guideline overlays to help you position your portrait accurately for online IRCC submissions (such as study permits, visitor visas, and Express Entry profiles) or to prepare print-ready sheets.

Official Canadian Passport & IRCC Photo Rules

• Physical Dimensions: Exactly 50 mm wide by 70 mm high (50 × 70 mm).
• Head Measurement: 31 mm to 36 mm from chin to top of skull (44% to 51% of total vertical height).
• Background: Solid plain white or light-coloured background without shadows, textures, or reflections.
• Expression: Completely neutral expression with mouth closed and eyes looking directly into the camera. Smiling is prohibited.
• Important Note for Physical Applications: Printed photos submitted for adult Canadian passport renewals inside Canada require the stamp and date of a commercial photographer on the back of one photo. Online visa and permanent residency applications submitted directly through IRCC accept digital JPEG files.

Consider an applicant submitting an online visitor visa application through the IRCC portal:

• Input Image: A 2400 × 3360 pixel smartphone portrait taken against a plain light wall (3.1 MB JPEG).
• Format Standard: Canada IRCC (50 × 70 mm, minimum 420 DPI / 820 × 1148 px).
• Guideline Positioning: The applicant moves the crop handles until the crown of the head aligns with the upper guide marker and the chin rests on the lower marker, achieving a 34 mm head size.
• Exported Result: A sharp, correctly proportioned JPEG file weighing 280 KB against a solid white background, ready for direct IRCC upload.

Here is exactly how processing works for Canadian document photographs:

• Client-Side 50×70mm Geometry: All cropping, chin-to-crown measurement overlays, DPI calculations, and printable multi-up tiling operate on your local CPU via browser JavaScript.
• Temporary Cloud Inference for Cutouts: Clicking the background removal button dispatches a single POST payload to an isolated GPU container. That server returns the isolated subject and drops session data from RAM with no persistent file caching.