🇨🇦 Free Canada Passport Photo Size and Requirements

✓ Verified specSource: IRCC / Passport Canada · verified 2026-08-08

Canada requires passport photos taken by a commercial photographer, stamped with the studio's details. Use this to check your framing before you go — the file you download here can't be submitted.

Requirements

Canvas

50 × 70 mm @ 300 dpi

Head height

31–36 mm

Background

Plain white or light-coloured

Digital file

JPEG, PNG

Prints needed

Also: 5 × 7 cm · 1.97 × 2.76 in · 591 × 827 px at 300 dpi · 1181 × 1654 px at 600 dpi

Good to know

•MUST be taken by a commercial photographer/studio; studio name, address and date required on the back

•One of the two prints must be signed by a guarantor

•A self-serve web tool cannot produce a submittable Canadian passport photo - use for framing preview only

•Colour or black-and-white both accepted

Guides

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🇨🇦 Visa · 35 × 45 mm 🇨🇦 Permanent Resident · 50 × 70 mm 🇨🇦 Citizenship · 50 × 70 mm 🇧🇷 Passport or Visa(old standard) · 50 × 70 mm