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Nice hack, now wondering if you can wear the 'Angelina Jolie' glasses frame[1] for your picture. Funny story, when my passport was stolen in London I had to go

Nice hack, now wondering if you can wear the 'Angelina Jolie' glasses frame[1] for your picture. Funny story, when my passport was stolen in London I had to go to the US Embassy there to get a replacement, I brought a picture that I got in the tube station from a "passport photo machine". The embassy rejected it, requiring instead that I go to a specific photographer who was located about 2 blocks away. That guy charged me 20 pounds sterling for two black and white photos. My wife kept that one after it had expired because in the photo I have a smoldering look of disgust :-) [1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recognition-glasses-trick-impersonate-fool https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recogniti...

kube-system 6y ago
In the US you can’t wear glasses at all for your passport photo, even if you always wear glasses.
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- astura 6y ago
  This is really really new, I've owned three passports (including my current one) where I'm wearing glasses. Apparently it's cause people can't figure out how to take a photo with glasses properly. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel_old/en/news/no-glasses-nov-1st.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel_old/en/news/no-glass...
  - kube-system 6y ago
    I wouldn't say it's really that new, assuming an even distribution of passports over time, close to 40% of active US passports probably fall under those rules.
    - tallanvor 6y ago
      That would still mean 60% of passport holders will be surprised by this change. I hadn't heard of it, and I'll need to renew my passport in a little over a year.
barrkel 6y ago
I don't know if it's the same for US passport photos, but US visa photos need to be a larger square whereas most European photo requirements have a smaller portrait aspect ratio. The photo is no different, it's just that there's prescribed size in imperial units for US visa photos. At one point I went to a photo shop to get US visa photos since I knew a photo booth wouldn't do the right thing, but they printed out Euro style photos by mistake, and I had to ask them to do US ones instead, so I got both sets of photos. Exactly the same zoom, exactly the same photo, just the Euro style was cropped more. Edit: I looked them up: https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports/photo-requirements https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports/photo-requirements - 35mm wide by 45mm tall. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/photos.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app... - 2 inches square.

kube-system 6y ago

In the US you can’t wear glasses at all for your passport photo, even if you always wear glasses.

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astura 6y ago
This is really really new, I've owned three passports (including my current one) where I'm wearing glasses. Apparently it's cause people can't figure out how to take a photo with glasses properly. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel_old/en/news/no-glasses-nov-1st.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel_old/en/news/no-glass...
- kube-system 6y ago
  I wouldn't say it's really that new, assuming an even distribution of passports over time, close to 40% of active US passports probably fall under those rules.
  - tallanvor 6y ago
    That would still mean 60% of passport holders will be surprised by this change. I hadn't heard of it, and I'll need to renew my passport in a little over a year.

barrkel 6y ago

I don't know if it's the same for US passport photos, but US visa photos need to be a larger square whereas most European photo requirements have a smaller portrait aspect ratio. The photo is no different, it's just that there's prescribed size in imperial units for US visa photos. At one point I went to a photo shop to get US visa photos since I knew a photo booth wouldn't do the right thing, but they printed out Euro style photos by mistake, and I had to ask them to do US ones instead, so I got both sets of photos. Exactly the same zoom, exactly the same photo, just the Euro style was cropped more. Edit: I looked them up: https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports/photo-requirements https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports/photo-requirements - 35mm wide by 45mm tall. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/photos.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app... - 2 inches square.