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I thought they always required a professionally taken photo? In Canada you need to go to a photographer (lots of malls and general stores have one) to take your
by CleanCoder 6y ago
I thought they always required a professionally taken photo? In Canada you need to go to a photographer (lots of malls and general stores have one) to take your photos and then stamp and sign them at the back making them eligible for passport submission.
- tdeck 6y agoYou can take them yourself in the US and print them out, although I think most people don't. I saved about $14 by doing that.
- CobsterLock 6y agoSame here, as long as you have white backdrop (large poster board from an old school project) and are able to crop/print it to the correct dimensions there is no need to get a professional picture. When planning the family vacation, were looking for any ways to cut costs a bit
- btgeekboy 6y agoSame. I had some taken at a local store, and thought they came out terribly. Not worth the money at all. Set up my DSLR in the kitchen on a tripod, digitally placed 2 right-sized copies on a 4x6, and printed them at the drugstore for less than a quarter. I used decent equipment, but a modern phone these days will take an acceptable photo. (In fact, I just searched the iOS App Store at there’s at least a few apps that claim to make acceptable photos.)
- kleiba 6y agoPlus, unlike at a photographer's, you can repeat this process in your kitchen 50 times if you want until you get a picture that you're happy with.
- gumby 6y agoGerman passport photos (until now) could be taken by those photo machines that are all over the place. Australia requires a printed photo that’s most easily taken at a shop but doesn’t have to be. Disclaimers: it’s been 6 years and 2 years since I’ve had to do this.
- hnarn 6y agoWeird. In Sweden its required to have your picture taken by a machine at the police office where you apply for the passport.
- CaptainZapp 6y agoSame in Switzerland, alas it's the designated passport office and not a police station. They have a specially kited photo booth, where you also leave two fingerprints for additional biometric verification. In order to renew your passport you need to schedule an appointment withyour local passport office. Last time I renewed, 2013, it took 7 weeks until the earliest available appointment, which was a bit surprising. I'm sure, though, there's an emergency shortcut for a price. The new passport arrives two days later by mail.
- emilfihlman 6y agoIn Finland you can submit your own photo through the internet. All applications are verified by the police so I don't see the issue.
- anon4242 6y agoFrom the article: > Such manipulation of photos is typically invisible to the human eye, the researchers found.
- emilfihlman 6y agoBy the police I do mean the Police, ie not just an individual police person or civilian working for the police. I'm sure they have both automatic testing AND human control.
- msl 6y agoNo you can't. Only a licensed photography studio can do it [1]. You can, however, submit a paper photograph taken by anyone. [1] https://www.poliisi.fi/passport/passport_photo_instructions https://www.poliisi.fi/passport/passport_photo_instructions
- dirtyid 6y agoQuite a few Korea & Chinatown will beautify your photos and submit them. The ones I been to will do so without even asking. They've been around for a while.
- qwerty456127 6y agoHow does this make any sense as a security measure? Real criminals will always find a photographer who would produce whatever a picture they want and stamp it.
- nrp 6y agoPresumably there is some level of traceability to this. If a falsified photo is found on a document used to commit fraud or other crimes, the photographer who enabled it would be banned, blacklisted, and possibly held criminally liable.
- eigenvector 6y agoWhat prevents me from stamping "Walmart at 123 Example Avenue" then scrawling an incomprehensible signature on any photo I want? The stamps the shops use don't have any security features to them. Unlike the old "guarantor" system where a licensed professional or public official (judge, lawyer, doctor, etc.) had to sign your application - basically, people who the government could verify the existence of and hold accountable - there's not very much traceability to the photo system.
- jkaplowitz 6y agoCanada's guarantor system is still in place, although the guarantor currently doesn't have to be a licensed professional. As an American immigrant to Canada, I don't see the point - the US has never in my lifetime had either a professional photo requirement or a guarantor requirement for its passports, nor even a digital requirement. Certainly, paying someone like a pharmacy for passport photos is not rare in the US to reduce the risk of out-of-spec photos leading to a rejection. But that's just a common personal choice and not obligatory. I suspect Canada's guarantor system is inspired by the UK's, though I don't actually know.
- rorykoehler 6y agoYou may have found an actual use for blockchain.
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- mkl 6y agoIn New Zealand you can take them yourself and submit them digitally when you apply for renewal online. I did it with my DSLR on its timer, then cropped and converted to JPEG with Krita or Gimp. I believe the new photo is compared to the old one by a person. Maybe our passport office is being a bit naive? It used to require more hoop-jumping though.
- caoilte 6y agoWell it ain't for nothing that New Zealand is Mossad's favourite fake passport when assassinating Palestinians in foreign countries. Probably other factors as well tho.
- mleonhard 6y agolink?
- toomanybeersies 6y agoThis is the only time they were caught: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealand_passport_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealan... But it's safe to say that if they were caught once, they've probably done it numerous times.
- phyalow 6y agohttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/8649223/Mossad-spy-ring-unearthed-because-of-Christchurch-earthquake.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepa... Another incident
- kbutler 6y agoCool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel_%E2%80%93_New_Zealand_spy_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel_%E2%80%93_New_Zeal...
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