Netherlands visa photo size
A Dutch Schengen visa photo is 3.5 by 4.5 cm, in colour, on a white or light-coloured background.
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It is 35 by 45 mm and no more than six months old. Through the external service provider you submit no photo at all, because a digital one is taken at your appointment.
What the authority specifies
- Photo size
- 45 mm by 35 mm
- Pixels at 300 DPI
- 413 x 531
- Background
- white or light-coloured
- File size
- No limit published
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Each size on this page was read at the issuing authority's own website, not copied from another converter or from a search result.
The page it came from and the date it was read are printed above, so you can check the same source in one click.
Why this size?
The Dutch Foreign Ministry's Schengen checklist states four things about the photo: colour, no more than six months old, 3.5 by 4.5 cm, and a white or light-coloured background.
It adds that you need not submit a photo if you apply through the external service provider. A digital photo is taken at your appointment, so this page is for a print you bring yourself.
The checklist says the photo must meet Dutch requirements and names no resolution. The Dutch passport page asks for 400 dpi, light grey, light blue or white, and a 26 to 30 mm face.
If your embassy asks for the passport rules, use the Dutch passport photo page.
Where the pixel figure comes from
Passport offices publish millimetres, not pixels, because the photograph is printed. Turning millimetres into pixels needs a resolution, and most authorities do not name one.
This one does not, so the pixel figure above is 300 DPI, the resolution print shops work to. The millimetre measurement is the requirement; the pixel figure is our arithmetic on top of it.
The file you download records that resolution in its header, so a print dialog set to actual size uses it instead of guessing at 72 or 96 DPI and printing the photo several times too large.
That matters if you are uploading rather than printing.
An online form usually states its own pixel size or file size limit, and where an authority publishes one this page uses that instead of converting anything.
Check before you submit
Requirements change, and the only version that counts is the one on the authority's own page on the day you apply.
Every size here links to the page it came from and shows the date it was read. If that date looks old, spend a minute at the source before you print anything.
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Common questions
What size is a Dutch visa photo?
3.5 by 4.5 cm, which is 35 by 45 mm, on the Dutch Foreign Ministry's Schengen checklist. It must be a colour photo no more than six months old.
The checklist gives no pixel size, file size or DPI.
What background does a Dutch visa photo need?
White or light-coloured. That is wider than the Dutch passport rule, which lists light grey, light blue or white and asks for an even, single colour.
Plain white under even light meets both wordings.
Do I need to bring a photo for a Dutch visa?
Not if you apply through the external service provider. The Foreign Ministry says a digital photo is taken at your appointment.
Applying any other way, you submit a photo that meets the checklist.
Is it the same as a Dutch passport photo?
The size is the same, 35 by 45 mm. The passport rules add 400 dpi on high quality photo paper, a 26 to 30 mm face and a light grey, light blue or white background.
The visa checklist states none of those and says only that the photo must meet Dutch requirements.
Do I upload the photo, and how many KB?
The checklist asks you to submit a photo and states no file size, so no KB limit applies from it.
The limits some photo sites give for a Dutch visa are on no Foreign Ministry page we read.
What size is a Dutch visa photo in pixels?
None is published for the visa. This tool makes 413 by 531 pixels, which is 35 by 45 mm at 300 DPI, and writes 300 DPI into the file so it prints at size.
For the passport's 400 dpi, 551 by 709 pixels, use the Dutch passport page.
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