Australia Visa (ImmiAccount) photo requirements
The exact size, ratio, file-size window and head tolerance set by Department of Home Affairs — and a free tool below that frames your photo to match, in your own browser.
- Ratio
- 3:4
- Print size
- 35 × 45 mm
- Pixels
- 600×800 – 1200×1600
- File size
- 70 KB – 3.50 MB
- Head height
- 71–80%
Read this before you rely on an edited photo
Many immigration and passport authorities require a photograph that has not been digitally altered. Replacing a background, smoothing skin, enhancing with AI, or applying a camera filter can all be treated as manipulation and can get an application refused or disqualified — regardless of whether the file passes an automated size check. Reframing, rotating and resizing are not alteration; changing the content of the picture is.
Background replacement is switched onhere so the result is usable straight away, and you can turn it off in Auto-fix if your authority requires an unaltered photograph — for a US passport, DS-160, DS-260 or DV entry, we would. Lighting correction is on too — it lifts an under-exposed face and evens out a shadow across one side of it, and it has its own switch. Whatever you choose, look at your own photo for filters or “portrait” beautification your phone may have applied on its own — the safest fix for a bad background or bad lighting is always to retake it.
Your photo is reframed to the document’s tolerances, then audited.
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Upload or capture a photo and every published tolerance for this document gets checked and reported here.
Before you submit
What catches people out on a Australia Visa (ImmiAccount) photo
- Home Affairs will not accept a scan of a printed photo, or a photograph of a photograph. It must be an original digital capture.
Why this photo is not interchangeable
Where Australia departs from the standard passport photo
A photo accepted for one country is regularly refused for another. These are the specific rules Department of Home Affairs sets that differ from the ICAO 35 × 45 mm default most passports follow.
3:4, not 35 × 45 mm
Most countries use the ICAO 35 × 45 mm portrait shape. Australia uses 3:4 (35 × 45 mm), so a photo cropped for another country will not fit this frame without re-cropping.
There is a minimum file size, not only a maximum
The file must be at least 70 KB. Over-compressing to make an upload smaller is a common way to fail this check.
Source: Department of Home Affairs photograph requirements for online (ImmiAccount) lodgement: JPEG, 70 KB–3.5 MB, 1200×1600 pixels preferred.
Australia Visa (ImmiAccount) photo questions
What size photo is needed for a Australia Visa (ImmiAccount)?+
A Australia Visa (ImmiAccount) photo is 3:4, printed at 35 × 45 mm. Digitally it must be between 600×800 and 1200×1600 pixels, in JPEG format, between 70 KB and 3.50 MB.
How large should the head be in a Australia Visa (ImmiAccount) photo?+
The head must measure 71% to 80% of the total image height, from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head including hair. The background must be plain light grey or cream.
Where do these Australia Visa (ImmiAccount) figures come from?+
Department of Home Affairs photograph requirements for online (ImmiAccount) lodgement: JPEG, 70 KB–3.5 MB, 1200×1600 pixels preferred.