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Netherlands passport — 35×45 mm photo maker

35×45 mm at 600 dpi, head 71–80% of the frame, light grey, uniform behind you. Guides and a print sheet, on your device.

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35×45 mm · 827×1063 px · 600 dpi

Filestay is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any government or visa authority, including the U.S. Department of State. We make the file match the published technical requirements — acceptance is always the issuing authority's decision.

The official requirement

Photo size
35×45 mm
Pixels
827 × 1063
Resolution
600 dpi
Head height
71–80% of image height
Background
Light grey, uniform

Also required

  • Head height 32–36 mm
  • No shadows, no reflections on glasses

Source: Rijksoverheid photo criteria. Requirements change — check the source before you submit.

A Dutch application happens at the gemeente counter, and the photograph is still a physical object: the criteria call for a print on smooth, high-quality photo paper at 400 dpi or better. Readers arrive for the paspoort or the identiteitskaart, often for a child, since a separate face-height range applies under eleven.

How much of the frame the head has to fill

The on-screen ratio, 71 to 80 per cent of 45 mm, works out at 32 to 36 millimetres. The Dutch criteria look smaller: 26 to 30 mm chin to crown for anyone eleven or over, and 16 to 20 mm across the face, ear root to ear root. Neither is wrong. The Dutch measurement stops at the crown of the skull; the guide brackets the hair above it, and at this scale that hair is the gap.

What gets this one sent back

  • Lenses must be wholly transparent with no glare — a ceiling lamp catches one side of a pair of glasses far more readily than window light.
  • A sheet from an office laser printer fails on material: smooth photo paper and a 400 dpi floor are specified, which 600 dpi clears comfortably.
  • Light grey, light blue and white are each permitted, so the true failure is unevenness. Stand well off the wall, shadows outside the frame.

Half a metre clear of the wall so your shadow falls behind you, camera at about 1.5 metres so the lens does not widen your nose, soft light from the front. Take several.

Getting the print right

35×45 mm is a physical instruction; 827×1063 pixels is what it becomes at 600 dpi. The head band follows the same conversion — 71–80% of 45 mm is 31.9–36.0 mm, or 755–850 pixels in the exported file.

No digital ceiling is published for this one, which means the print is the binding version and the file only has to survive being printed. Use the sheet rather than sending a single image to a shop — several copies at true size on one page costs the same and covers the spare everyone ends up needing.

Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — the default shrink is invisible to you and measurable to whoever checks it.

How it works

  1. 01Add a recent photoFacing the camera, plain wall behind. HEIC from an iPhone works directly.
  2. 02Frame it to 35×45 mmDrag and zoom until your head fills 71–80% of the frame height, matching the dashed guide.
  3. 03Check the warningsThe border area is measured against "light grey, uniform" and flagged if it is uneven.
  4. 04Download or printSave the 827×1063 JPG, or take a print sheet with several copies laid out at true size.

Questions people actually ask

My child needs one too. Does anything change?
The face height does. From eleven upwards it is 26 to 30 millimetres chin to crown; below eleven the range opens to 19 to 30 millimetres, allowing for a smaller head without an impossible crop. Nothing else relaxes — neutral expression, closed mouth, eyes visible, even light, no reflections. Infants are hardest on background, since soft bedding records as texture rather than flat tone.
Can I e-mail it to the municipality instead of printing?
The criteria as published describe a print: smooth, high-quality photo paper, 400 dpi or better, handed in with the application. Worth registering if you have read about the German arrangement, where since May 2025 the image must arrive digitally and paper is turned away. Two neighbours moving in opposite directions, so a habit from one side of the border is wrong on the other.
How do I photograph glasses without catching a reflection?
Glare is a geometry problem, not a lens-coating problem. A lamp or a window in front of you bounces straight off the glass and back into the camera, so move the light off to one side and slightly above, and tip the arms of the frames up a couple of millimetres at the ears so the lenses point a fraction downward. That is usually enough to send the reflection below the camera instead of into it. Check the photograph zoomed in rather than at thumbnail size — a reflection that looks like a faint sheen on a phone screen is an opaque white patch across the pupil once the picture is printed at a centimetre wide.
What size does a Netherlands photo have to be?
35×45 mm, which is 827×1063 pixels at 600 dpi. The head, measured from the bottom of the chin to the top of the hair, must fill 71–80% of the photo height.
What background colour is required?
Light grey, uniform. The border area is measured and flagged if it is uneven. The background is never replaced digitally — a cut-out edge is visible and gets photos rejected.
Is my Netherlands photo uploaded anywhere?
No — the crop and the JPEG encode both run in this browser tab. A biometric image of your face is not a file to hand to a web service.
How do I print 35×45 mm at the right size?
Use the print sheet — several copies laid out at true 35×45 mm with faint cut lines — and set the printer to 100% rather than "fit to page". At 600 dpi the file is 827×1063 px, and a driver that shrinks by 3% turns 35 mm into something a ruler catches.

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