New Zealand Visa (INZ) photo requirements
The exact size, ratio, file-size window and head tolerance set by Immigration New Zealand — and a free tool below that frames your photo to match, entirely in your browser.
- Ratio
- 3:4
- Print size
- 35 × 45 mm
- Pixels
- 900×1200 – 2250×3000
- File size
- 512 KB – 3.14 MB
- Head height
- 64–76%
- INZ publishes the ratio and file size but no pixel bounds. The 900×1200–2250×3000 range we target is ours, chosen to sit inside the file-size window.
- INZ names filters, beautification features and AI editing tools explicitly as grounds for rejection.
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. Exposure correction stays off. 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.
New Zealand Visa (INZ) photo questions
What size photo is needed for a New Zealand Visa (INZ)?+
A New Zealand Visa (INZ) photo is 3:4, printed at 35 × 45 mm. Digitally it must be between 900×1200 and 2250×3000 pixels, in JPEG format, between 512 KB and 3.14 MB.
How large should the head be in a New Zealand Visa (INZ) photo?+
The head must measure 64% to 76% 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 New Zealand Visa (INZ) figures come from?+
Immigration New Zealand acceptable-photo guidance: a JPG/JPEG file between 512 KB and 3.14 MB, taken in portrait mode at a 3:4 aspect ratio, natural and unaltered.