Cambodia Passport Photo Maker

Cambodia Passport Photo Visual Reference

The diagram marks every measurement the General Department of Immigration checks: the 40 × 60 mm frame, the 36 mm head height, and the 6 mm clearance above the crown.

Cambodia passport photo size diagram · 40 × 60 mm

Accepted Cambodia passport photo example · 40 × 60 mm

Cambodia Passport Photo Requirements

These specifications apply to the ordinary Cambodian passport and e-passport issued by the General Department of Immigration. Each rule links to the detailed standard in the rules library.

Passport Authority Overview

Cambodian passports are issued by the General Department of Immigration (GDI), which sits under the Ministry of Interior and publishes its guidance at immigration.gov.kh. The GDI operates the main passport office in Phnom Penh along with provincial service points, and it manages the country's move to chip-based biometric travel documents. Cambodians living overseas usually apply or renew through the nearest Royal Embassy or Consulate, which forwards the file back to the GDI.

Because the GDI records a biometric facial image for the e-passport chip, photo quality is not a formality. A blurred, shadowed, or wrongly framed picture can hold up the whole file, so getting the 40×60 mm image right at the start keeps your application moving.

Passport Application Process in Cambodia

The typical route to a Cambodian passport looks like this:

1. Prepare your documents – Khmer national identity card, birth certificate, and family book (or the equivalent held by an embassy for applicants abroad).
2. Complete the application – at a GDI office, an authorised service counter, or through an embassy for overseas Cambodians.
3. Biometric capture – fingerprints and a facial image are recorded. A compliant 4×6 cm photo is still required for the paper file and for most embassy and agent submissions.
4. Pay the fee and choose a speed – normal, express, or the fastest same-region option, depending on the counter.
5. Collect the passport – in person or by the delivery method offered at your service point.

Cambodia-Specific Photo Rules

Beyond the dimensions in the table above, the GDI expects a photo that clearly and honestly shows your face. These are the framing and conduct points that most often decide an outcome:

• Full face square to the camera, with both edges of the face visible and no rotation or tilt of the head.
• Shoulders level and included in frame, so the crop reads as a portrait rather than a tight face shot.
• Natural skin tones. Heavy filters, skin smoothing, and phone "beauty mode" edits are not allowed and are detected during biometric capture.
• No other person, hand, or object anywhere in the frame, including at the edges.
• Printed on quality photo paper if you submit a hard copy, with clean square edges and no glue residue.

Passport vs visa: This page covers the Cambodian passport for Cambodian citizens (4×6 cm). Cambodia does not currently have a dedicated visa photo guide on this site. If you are a foreign traveller heading to the region, the Thailand visa photo and Vietnam visa photo guides cover the neighbouring standards, and the China visa photo guide covers the 33×48 mm format used further north.

National Biometric Standards for the e-Passport

The Cambodian e-passport stores a digital facial image on its chip, so the photo has to satisfy machine-readable rules as well as human ones. For a clean Cambodian e-passport picture, the tool aligns your image to these points:

• Face centred and vertical, looking straight ahead, not tilted or turned.
• Sharp focus across the whole face with no motion blur or compression artefacts.
• Natural contrast so facial landmarks are easy to distinguish by an algorithm.
• No red-eye, lens flare, or reflection across the eyes.
• Correct crop geometry, since a frame that is off-ratio shifts every measured landmark at once. The crop guide explains how the 2:3 ratio and the 36 mm head height are applied together.

Child and Infant Passport Photo Requirements

Infants and children use the same 40×60 mm size, plain white background and 36 mm head height. There is no smaller format and no reduced head-height band for babies. What bends slightly is the expression and eye rule, and the practical difficulty is meeting an adult framing standard with a subject who cannot sit up.

• No other person, hand, arm, car seat, toy, or dummy may appear in the frame. Lay a baby on a plain white sheet and shoot from directly above.
• The child should look toward the camera with a neutral face. For newborns, closed eyes are tolerated when unavoidable, but not for older children.
• No dummies, pacifiers, or feeding items in or near the mouth.
• Keep the head and shoulders in view, with the face evenly lit and no shadow behind. Soft indirect daylight from the side of the room works better than overhead light.
• Shoot wide and crop down. Cropping tightly in-camera on a small face leaves too few pixels once the 2:3 frame is applied.
• A child's appearance changes quickly, so the six-month rule matters more here. A photo that no longer resembles the child is refused even inside the window.

Positioning, lighting and timing technique for infants and toddlers is covered in the baby passport photo at home guide. The eyes requirements and shadow rules pages cover the two checks that fail most often on child photos.

Passport Renewal Photo Rules

You cannot reuse the photo from an expiring passport. Each renewal needs a fresh image, taken within the last six months, that reflects how you look now, including any lasting change in appearance such as a beard or very different hairstyle. Cambodians renewing at an embassy abroad usually submit printed 4×6 cm photos with the application, so prepare a new compliant image rather than assuming the old one still qualifies.

Passport Processing Tips

• Apply well before travel dates and keep your payment receipt safe.
• Check that the Latin spelling of your name matches your national ID exactly.
• Bring spare identical compliant photos from the same session in case a counter requests extras.
• Preview your photo against the requirements table above before you submit.
• If you are abroad, confirm your embassy's exact photo count and format, since some request more than one copy.

Can I Take My Cambodia Passport Photo at Home?

Yes. A modern phone and a plain wall are enough if you follow a few habits, then let the tool do the sizing.

Phone camera

Use the rear camera of a recent phone (12 MP or higher) rather than the selfie lens, which distorts the face. If your phone saves HEIC files, the HEIC to JPEG guide covers conversion.

Lighting

Face a window during the day so soft, even light hits your face. Avoid overhead lamps that cast shadows under the eyes.

Background

Stand about half a metre in front of a plain white wall so no shadow lands behind your head.

Distance from camera

Have someone shoot from roughly 1 to 1.5 metres at eye level, keeping your head and shoulders in frame.

Turn off beautification

Disable portrait mode, background blur, and skin smoothing before you shoot. These alter facial geometry and are detected during biometric capture.

Printing

Export the finished 40×60 mm file at 300 DPI, or print the 4R sheet at any Cambodian photo shop. See the printing section below for settings.

Common mistakes

Selfie-lens distortion, tilted heads, hair over the eyes, and shadows on the wall are the errors we see most from home photos.

Cambodia Passport Photo vs Other Standards

Travellers often assume one photo works everywhere. It does not. Here is how the Cambodian standard differs from the US format, and which other countries share the same 40×60 mm size.

Because the shapes and head sizes do not match, a US 2×2 photo cannot simply be reused for a Cambodian passport, and the reverse is equally true.

Other countries using the 40 × 60 mm size

Cambodia is not alone. If you hold documents for more than one of these countries, the same physical print size applies, though background shade and head height can still differ.

Neighbouring standards that differ: Laos uses 30 × 40 mm, Myanmar and Singapore use 35 × 45 mm, and China uses 33 × 48 mm. The full worldwide reference is in passport size photo dimensions.

How to Create Your Cambodia Passport Photo with the Maker

Five steps take you from a phone snapshot to a compliant 4×6 cm file.

1. Upload your photo using the box near the top of this page, or drag one straight in from your gallery.
2. Crop as the tool auto-detects your face and positions it inside the 40×60 mm Cambodia template. See the crop guide for how the ratio and head height combine.
3. Background is cleaned to the plain white the GDI requires, removing walls, colour, and shadows.
4. Verify the preview against the biometric guides for head height, spacing, and a neutral expression.
5. Download a single digital image at 472 × 709 pixels or a print-ready 4R sheet, then submit or print it.

Printing a 40 × 60 mm Cambodia Passport Photo

Most Cambodian submissions still involve a printed photo, so printing is part of the specification rather than an afterthought. A 40 × 60 mm photo tiles cleanly onto standard 4R paper, the size every photo shop in Cambodia stocks.

Printer settings, paper choice and cutting technique are covered in full in the print passport photo at home guide, and multi-copy sheet layout in the print sheet guide. If a digital upload rejects your file for size, see the reduce file size guide and the digital passport photo requirements guide.

Common Reasons Cambodian Passport Photos Are Rejected

Most refusals trace back to a short, predictable list. Check yours against these before submitting. The full cross-country breakdown is in passport photo rejection reasons.

• Photo is not 40×60 mm (wrong crop or aspect) — see crop guide
• Grey, cream, or coloured background instead of white — see background rules
• Head too large and cropped at the edges — see head size rules
• Head too small with excess space around it
• Less than 6 mm clearance above the top of the hair
• Shadow falling behind the head or on the face — see shadow rules
• Glare or tint on eyeglass lenses — see glasses rules
• Hair falling across the eyes or face outline — see hair rules
• One or both ears hidden by hair — see ears visibility
• Non-religious head covering worn in frame — see head covering rules
• Photo older than six months
• Dim, uneven, or yellow lighting
• Filters, skin smoothing, or heavy digital edits
• Smiling, open mouth, or tilted head — see smile rules
• Resolution below 472 × 709 pixels, printing pixelated at 40×60 mm
• Printed on plain paper instead of photo paper

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