While we recommend you use a professional visa photo service to ensure your photo meets all the requirements, you may take the photo yourself. Photos must not be digitally enhanced or altered to change your appearance in any way.

Use the Department of State’s free photo tool to:
• select a digital image stored on your computer
• resize and rotate it if necessary
• crop it to a square image of exactly 600 x 600 pixels, and
• save it to your computer to submit online or for printing