Bahraini Passport Photo (portal upload; rule unread, ICAO 35 x 45 mm reference): size and requirements
The Bahraini Passport Photo size is 35 x 45 mm (1.38 x 1.77 inches), or 413 x 531 pixels for online upload. Not read; white is our rendering choice for the reference frame (the portal's sample portrait is on a plain white background); head 70 to 80 percent of the photo height. Photo taken within the last 6 months. Last verified 2026-10-10 against Kingdom of Bahrain National Portal (iGA), Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs passport services 'Terms and Conditions', with ICAO Doc 9303.
For the photo attached to a Bahraini passport issuance, renewal or replacement request filed through the Kingdom of Bahrain national portal (eKey) with the Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs, by Bahraini citizens and parents of newborns. The official photo requirements PDF could not be read, so the frame is the ICAO Doc 9303 reference. Not for a Bahrain e-visa, the identity card or a driving licence.
Read the NPRA photo requirements PDF linked from the portal before uploading; use this ICAO-shaped file only as a starting point and expect the portal to enforce its own limits. See all Bahrain documents.
Requirements at a glance
- Size
- 35 x 45 mm (1.38 x 1.77 inches), or 413 x 531 pixels for online upload
- Head height
- Head 70 to 80 percent of the photo height (View the Passport Photo Requirements. (the linked NPRA PDF was unreadable; ICAO Doc 9303 35 x 45 mm and crown-to-chin 70 to 80 per cent applied))
- Background
- not read; white is our rendering choice for the reference frame (the portal's sample portrait is on a plain white background)
- Expression
- Neutral, mouth closed, eyes open, looking at the camera
- Glasses
- Allowed without glare or tint
- Head covering
- Allowed
- Photo age
- Taken within the last 6 months
- We deliver
- 413 x 531 px (300 DPI), plus a 4 x 6 inch print sheet
What trips people up
- CheckThe real rule is in a PDF we could not open: the portal's terms page says only 'View the Passport Photo Requirements.' and links npra.gov.bh/content/files/epassport-photo-condition-en.pdf. npra.gov.bh refused every fetch and the Wayback Machine was offline when we tried, so every number here is the ICAO Doc 9303 reference, flagged as such.
- CheckPortal services: 'Submit a request to renew your passport and/or your family members passports and pay the required fees (if any).' and 'Submit a request for the issuance of the first passport for the newborn child.' Both need a Standard eKey.
- CheckThe portal's sample is a head-and-shoulders portrait of a man in a white ghutra and black agal on a white background, so national headwear is evidently accepted; our headCovering value follows the sample, not a written rule.
- CheckTerms page last updated 29 September 2025; check the NPRA PDF yourself before uploading.
- CheckThe digital 413 x 531 px JPEG here is our 300 dpi rendering of the ICAO frame; the portal's accepted pixel and file-size limits are in the unread PDF.
Source and verification
No national rule published; ICAO 9303 standard applies. Last checked 2026-10-10 (archived copy dated 2024-09-12) at Kingdom of Bahrain National Portal (iGA), Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs passport services 'Terms and Conditions', with ICAO Doc 9303.
View the Passport Photo Requirements.
Submit a request to renew your passport and/or your family members passports and pay the required fees (if any).
Submit a request for the issuance of the first passport for the newborn child.
The Nationality, Passport & Residence Affairs provides for the citizens a group of services related to the passport issuance and renewal in an efficient and convenient way.
Submitted portraits should be 45.0 mm x 35.0 mm (1.77 in x 1.38 in) in dimension.
The crown-to-chin portion of the facial image shall be 70 to 80 per cent of the longest dimension defined for Zone V, maintaining the aspect ratio between the crown-to-chin and ear-to-ear details of the face of the holder.
Quote 1 is from source.url (sources/bh/bahrain-bh-passport-info.txt, read live via r.jina.ai on 2026-10-10). Quotes 2-4 are the services.bahrain.bh Passport Services list (sources/bh/services-bahrain-passport.txt). Quotes 5-6 are ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3 (sources/icao/, Wayback 2024-09-12) and supply the frame and head band; archiveSnapshot is that excerpt's date, the portal pages were read live. The NPRA PDF https://www.npra.gov.bh/content/files/epassport-photo-condition-en.pdf was not read (curl 000, r.jina.ai net::ERR_ABORTED, a Wayback capture request for web/2024id_/ that returned 404, and CDX queries that returned 503 'Temporarily Offline'). physical, digital, background, maxPhotoAgeMonths, glasses are ICAO-style defaults; headCovering 'allowed' follows the portal's sample portrait.
We are an independent service, not a government website. Applying for a passport or visa is done with your government; we only prepare the photo.
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