Visa (Latvia): 3.5 × 4.5 cm photo, head 31.5–36 mm from chin to crown.
Photograph requirements differ between Latvian documents. For an ID card, your photo is taken directly at the office. For a visa, you provide a printed photograph.
Photograph for a Latvian ID card
- Source: Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
- General: Photographs of both children and adults are taken on the spot at the offices at no additional charge. If a passport is processed for a child, the parents must evaluate whether their child will be able to sit up on their own or agree to be photographed at the particular moment. Otherwise, special photo cards must be submitted for a passport.
- External photographs: If you do not wish to be photographed at the division on the spot, you can submit a photograph from a photo studio when applying for a new personal identification document. Only photographs taken at professional photo studios can be used for passports, as confirmed by the studio’s stamp and date on the back of the photograph. The photograph cannot be older than 3 months, and it must meet other requirements specified in the regulations “On the Personal Identification Documents”. Photographs taken in photo booths are not accepted!
Photograph for a Latvian visa
45 mm
35 mm
- Source: Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
- Size: Photograph on paper 35 mm x 45 mm (width x height). The photograph must show your face in close-up with a small portion of your shoulders, where the face takes up 70-80% of the photograph.
- General requirements: The photograph must be of high resolution and printed on high-quality photo paper. The photograph must not be blurry. The photograph must have neutral lighting and contrast, and the colour of the face must be natural. Only the person themselves must be visible in the photograph, without other persons or toys. The facial expression must be neutral and the mouth must be closed.
- Head coverings: In the photograph the person must not wear a head covering, except for religious reasons, in which case the head covering must not cover the face or cast a shadow on it.
- Eyes: The person’s eyes must be directed towards the camera, the eyes must not be closed or covered. The glasses must not have tinted lenses or reflect the flash. The frame of the glasses must not be too thick or cover part of the eyes.
- Background: The face must be turned straight towards the camera, the background must be uniform and the person's face must be in the centre of the photograph. The lighting in the photograph must be appropriate so that the person does not have red eyes or heavy shadows in the background or on the face due to the flash light.
- Submit a recent photo, taken within 6 months.
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