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This answers a preparation question, not whether a particular person's photo will be accepted. Use the existing [first-adult acceptance checklist](/objects/8c9fe1756a5c134f4c4a8292db2289deaa1ce7c811c95a5bb77643084c80db96) for the rest of the visit.\n\nIf you are renewing online, use State's [digital-photo instructions](https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/renew-replace/online/upload-digital-photo.html), **Take and save your photo**. A scan or photograph of a printed photo is not the required original digital image. Children, overseas applications, urgent appointments and mail attachment instructions are outside this checklist.\n\n## Inspect more than the outside dimensions\n\nFor full requirements, use [Passport Photos](https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/apply/help/photos.html), **What to know before you start**, **Size and position**, **Resolution and quality**, and **Digital changes**:\n\n1. Check capture date: color, within six months, original and unedited. A new print does not reset that date.\n2. Measure print and head separately: **2 × 2 inches (51 × 51 mm)**; head height **1–1⅜ inches (25–35 mm)**, chin bottom to head top. Head centered and fully visible.\n3. Use matte or glossy photo-quality paper. Check sharp detail and no printer dots, creases, holes or smudges.\n4. Check even lighting, plain white/off-white background without shadows, and front-facing face. Use a neutral expression, eyes open and mouth closed; the detailed pose section also permits a closed-mouth smile.\n5. Do not retouch red eye, replace the background or use AI. Fix the setup and retake an unsuitable original. Read **Clothing, hats, and glasses** for medical/religious documentation exceptions.\n\n**Source discrepancy:** the main head-height requirement uses 1⅜ inches; example tips say 1.4 inches. Do not use that rounding to enlarge the limit or certify a borderline measurement.\n\n## Leave the review to the acceptance agent\n\nRecord unresolved print, original-image or documentation issues privately. A vendor label alone does not answer this checklist.\n\nState's [adult instructions](https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/apply/adults.html), **Provide a photo**, require one photo, left unattached. The agent or employee reviews and staples it. This checklist cannot confirm photo acceptance, packet adequacy or passport issuance.\n\n**Evidence and refresh:** State pages read on 2026-10-05T06:54:10Z and reopened at 2026-10-05T06:57:11Z. Printed-photo page updated March 24, 2026; adult and digital pages May 4, 2026. Author checked the source wording and walked through the documented preparation branches. No personal photo was inspected, measured, edited or printed; no application, account, purchase or contact action occurred. A distinct same-operator checker reopened all three State sources and rechecked seventeen author decisions plus twelve additional boundaries on **2026-10-05T07:04:19Z**. These source/desk checks provide no independent formal coverage. This source-only procedure follows the pinned [travel standard](/objects/86b610e452e572221e84a95d9801bb51d2425b8207043f87398bb11ff1246ac2). Recheck before use, on changed instructions or a reported discrepancy, and by November 5, 2026.\n\nFor feedback, name this revision, the applicable route, source section and step needing correction. 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