Pakistani Online Passport Photo (DGIP portal upload, 350 x 467 px JPEG): size and requirements
The Pakistani Online Passport Photo size is 350 x 467 pixels for online upload (minimum 350 x 467, maximum 350 x 467), file under 3 MB. Color picture with white background; head 70 to 80 percent of the photo height. Last verified 2026-10-08 against Directorate General of Immigration & Passports (DGIP), Ministry of Interior, 'Online Machine Readable Passport (MRP)' page, Documentation Requirements table.
For the colour picture uploaded to the DGIP Online Passport portal (onlinemrp.dgip.gov.pk) by Pakistanis abroad or inland applicants renewing a Machine Readable Passport, or applying for a newborn's passport, a reprint of a damaged, exhausted or lost passport, or a partial modification. Not for the in-person route at a Regional Passport Office, where the photograph is captured at the counter, and not for a NADRA CNIC/NICOP.
Requirements at a glance
- Size
- 350 x 467 pixels for online upload (minimum 350 x 467, maximum 350 x 467), file under 3 MB
- Head height
- Head 70 to 80 percent of the photo height (Original scan of a color picture with white background having specification 350/467 Pixels (no head size is published by DGIP; ICAO Doc 9303 crown-to-chin 70 to 80 per cent applied))
- Background
- color picture with white background
- Expression
- Neutral, mouth closed, eyes open, looking at the camera
- Glasses
- Only if you must; no tint, no glare
- Head covering
- Only for religious or medical reasons; full face visible
- We deliver
- 350 x 467 px , under 3072 KB, plus a 4 x 6 inch print sheet
What trips people up
- CheckThe portal names one exact size: 'Original scan of a color picture with white background having specification 350/467 Pixels in JPEG/JPG format and not more than 3MB size.' We deliver exactly 350 x 467 px JPEG.
- CheckWhite background only, in colour; PNG is not listed, only JPEG/JPG.
- CheckDGIP publishes no head-height or eye-line rule for the upload, so we apply the ICAO 70 to 80 per cent crown-to-chin band on the 467 px height.
- CheckThe same photo line appears for every online category (newborn, reprint damaged, reprint exhausted, reprint lost, modification). For a newborn 'up to two (02) years of age only'; older children must go to the Foreign Mission.
- CheckThe portal also wants a scanned 'Finger Prints Performa' and your CNIC/NICOP scan; the photo is one upload among several, and the fee is 'not refundable / transferable'.
- CheckKeep the file natural: the former NADRA guideline for the same 350 x 467 format demanded a photo 'that has not been altered in any way'; DGIP's page states only size, format, colour and background.
Known portal issues
- Note
onlinemrp.dgip.gov.pk refuses the connection (HTTP 403)
Read the photo requirement on the DGIP online-passport page before logging in. Read the fix - NoteThe Online Passport Renewal facility is 'available for both Inland & Overseas Pakistanis' for passports that have expired or have less than a year of validity; the newborn and reprint categories are described for Overseas Pakistanis.
Good to know before you pay
If a studio already gave you a 350 x 467 px white-background JPEG under 3 MB, upload that; the portal states nothing about who takes the picture.
Source and verification
Read from the official page. Last checked 2026-10-08 (archived copy dated 2024-09-12) at Directorate General of Immigration & Passports (DGIP), Ministry of Interior, 'Online Machine Readable Passport (MRP)' page, Documentation Requirements table.
Original scan of a color picture with white background having specification 350/467 Pixels in JPEG/JPG format and not more than 3MB size.
Note: Online Passport Renewal facility is available for both Inland & Overseas Pakistanis .
Note: Apply for renewal of your Machine Readable Passport, if your passport has expired OR its validity is less than 1 year .
New Passport for newborn (up to two (02) years of age only)
Note: The online passport fee once paid is not refundable / transferable (from one person to another person).
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 from the DGIP Online Passport page at source.url (sources/pk/dgip-online-passport.txt, direct curl, tag-stripped; quotes 2-3 keep the page's space before the full stop; the photo line recurs with '350/ 467' spacing in one row). Quote 6 is ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3 (sources/icao/, Wayback 2024-09-12) and supplies the head band, which DGIP does not publish (flagged in statedAs); archiveSnapshot 2024-09-12 is the Wayback date of that ICAO excerpt, not of a capture of source.url, which was read live. digital 350 x 467 is read as the exact size ('having specification 350/467 Pixels'), so min = max = target; maxKb 3072 from 'not more than 3MB'; format 'jpeg' from 'JPEG/JPG'. glasses, headCovering, neutralExpression and mouthClosed are ICAO-style defaults (DGIP states none for the upload). maxPhotoAgeMonths left undefined (not stated). printsRequired undefined (upload). child left undefined apart from the newborn category note in gotchas. The portal itself (onlinemrp.dgip.gov.pk) is 403 to anonymous readers, so its in-form validation messages were not read.
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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