Mauritania Passport Photo (ANRPTS file lists NNI and fee, no photograph; ICAO 35 x 45 mm reference): size and requirements
The Mauritania Passport Photo size is 35 x 45 mm (1.38 x 1.77 inches). Not published; white is our rendering choice for the reference frame; head 70 to 80 percent of the photo height. Photo taken within the last 6 months. Last verified 2026-10-10 against Agence Nationale du Registre des Populations et des Titres Sécurisés (ANRPTS), Ministère de l'Intérieur, de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local, Mauritania - 'Titres sécurisés: Procédures d'obtention d'un passeport biométrique', with the ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3 reference frame.
For a Mauritanian biometric passport (passeport biométrique) requested at an ANRPTS Centre d'Accueil des Citoyens, as a reference only: the agency's procedure lists the Numéro National d'Identification and the fee for a first passport, a renewal or a replacement and names no photograph, while its civil-status pages describe biometric enrolment at the centre - so the frame, head band and background here are the ICAO Doc 9303 defaults. Not for a Mauritanian online visa (no photo rule readable) nor for the national identity card.
Ask your ANRPTS reception centre before making a photo: Mauritania's passport procedure lists only the NNI and the fee and the agency enrols biometrics itself, so our 35 x 45 mm ICAO print is a reference only. See all Mauritania documents.
Requirements at a glance
- Size
- 35 x 45 mm (1.38 x 1.77 inches)
- Head height
- Head 70 to 80 percent of the photo height (no photo rule published (the procedure lists no photograph); ICAO Doc 9303 crown-to-chin 70 to 80 per cent of the 45 mm height applied as a reference)
- Background
- not published; white is our rendering choice for the reference frame
- Expression
- Neutral, mouth closed, eyes open, looking at the camera
- Glasses
- Allowed without glare or tint
- Head covering
- Only for religious or medical reasons; full face visible
- 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 first-passport file is two lines: 'Présentation du Numéro National d'Identification' and 'Paiement des frais de demande de passeport ordinaire de 3000 ouguiyas et de 10 000 ouguiyas pour un passeport de 64 pages' - plus 'la demande doit être présenté par le tuteur légal si la demande concerne un mineur'. No photograph is listed.
- CheckRenewal and replacement: a renewal needs the validity 'expirée ou inférieure à 6 mois' and the same NNI and fee; a replacement for loss, damage or a plausible reason (correction, insufficient validity) adds a loss declaration or the damaged document and stamp duties on a sliding scale - 4.000 new ouguiyas for a first loss, 5.500 for the second, 7.500 for the third, 10 000 for the fourth.
- CheckBiometrics at the centre: the civil-status procedures on the same site say that after approval 'on procéde à l'enrôlement biométriques du demandeur', and the identity-card obstacles list mentions fingerprints that cannot be captured at the registration station - so the agency captures biometric data itself; whether the passport image is taken there too, or a print is wanted, is not written.
- CheckBefore any title you need an NNI (Numéro National d'Identification) from the population register; applicants are told to check that name, birth date, birthplace and sex match the register, otherwise the title is not validated or printed.
- CheckICAO reference frame: 'Submitted portraits should be 45.0 mm x 35.0 mm (1.77 in x 1.38 in) in dimension.' with the head 70 to 80 per cent of the height and a plain light background - use it only if an ANRPTS centre or a Mauritanian mission asks for a print.
Source and verification
No national rule published; ICAO 9303 standard applies. Last checked 2026-10-10 (archived copy dated 2024-09-12) at Agence Nationale du Registre des Populations et des Titres Sécurisés (ANRPTS), Ministère de l'Intérieur, de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local, Mauritania - 'Titres sécurisés: Procédures d'obtention d'un passeport biométrique', with the ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3 reference frame.
Paiement des frais de demande de passeport ordinaire de 3000 ouguiyas et de 10 000 ouguiyas pour un passeport de 64 pages
Présentation du Numéro National d'Identification
la demande doit être présenté par le tuteur légal si la demande concerne un mineur
Il faut que la durée de validité soit expirée ou inférieure à 6 mois
Après étude et approbation de la demande, on procéde à l'enrôlement biométriques du demandeur.
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.
Quotes 1-5 are French i18n strings embedded in source.url's __NEXT_DATA__ (sources/mr/anrpts-fr-i18n-nextdata.txt, fetched directly on 2026-10-10; the page renders only its header to the text proxy). Quotes 1-4 are the 'Demande de passeport' procedure (keys obtain_passport_demand_p1/p3/p6), quote 5 the civil-status procedure (bearth_contract_p5) quoted for the biometric enrolment it describes; the agency's spellings ('présenté', 'procéde', 'biométriques') are kept. Quotes 6-7 are ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3 (sources/icao/icao-9303-part3-portrait-excerpt.txt, Wayback capture 2024-09-12). eligibility 'restricted' because no photograph is listed and no page says who takes the picture; physical 35 x 45 mm, head 0.7-0.8 from quotes 6-7; background 'white', dpi 300, maxPhotoAgeMonths 6, glasses and headCovering are ICAO-style defaults. Translations are ours.
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