Singapore PR photo · 400 × 514 px

Checked and laid out to ICA’s official Document Checklist for Permanent Residence and photo guidelines. Sources checked by us on 2026-08-17.

Two things people get wrong here. First, this is not the passport channel: the PR checklist publishes the 400 × 514 px canvas, the white background and the headgear rule — but no recency figure, no file size and no format, so we state exactly that instead of borrowing the passport numbers. Second, if you are here for an Employment Pass photo — there is no such upload: MOM captures EP photos in person at card registration. The PR application is where a photo actually gets uploaded, and ICA requires it original and unaltered, so we only crop, position and size.

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Official specification

Finished size	400 × 514 px this authority specifies pixels, not a physical size
Head height (chin to crown)	not published by this authority
Eye height	not published by this authority
Background	plain white
File formats	not published by this authority
File size	not published by this authority
Taken within	“recent” — no figure published

Full rules

A coloured digital photograph taken recently, in dimensions 400 x 514 pixels.
The photo background must be white in colour.
Taken full face without headgear, unless you wear a headgear habitually in accordance with religious or racial customs — and it must not hide your facial features.
Required for every applicant; not required for a non-applying spouse or sponsor.
ICA's photo guidelines apply: the digital photo must be original, without alterations using computer software or a mobile app, with even brightness, sharp focus, and shoulders and hair fully visible.
Permanent residence applications are submitted online through ICA's e-PR system, with the photograph uploaded as part of the document set.

Sources

https://www.ica.gov.sg/docs/default-source/ica/ipses/pr-document-checklist.pdf
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Singapore — Document Checklist for Permanent Residence · we checked it 2026-08-17

Passport-sized photo: a) A coloured digital photograph taken recently in dimensions 400 x 514 pixels; b) Taken full face without headgear unless you wear a headgear habitually in accordance with religious or racial customs. The headgear must not hide your facial features; c) The photo background must be white in colour.

https://www.ica.gov.sg/photo-guidelines
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Singapore — Photo Guidelines · page updated 2026-04-28 · we checked it 2026-08-16

Photo background must be white in colour ... Shoulders and hair must be fully visible ... Photo must be taken with even brightness ... Digital photo must be original without alterations using computer software/ mobile app

Questions

What photo does a Singapore PR application need?

ICA's document checklist asks for a coloured digital photograph taken recently, in dimensions 400 x 514 pixels, full face without headgear — unless worn habitually for religious or racial customs and not hiding your features — against a white background. It is uploaded with your e-PR application.

Is this the same as the Singapore passport photo?

The canvas is the same 400 x 514 pixels and the background is white in both, but the passport channel publishes extras the PR checklist does not: a 3-month recency figure, an 8 MB limit and a format list. Those come from passport-specific documents, so on this page we only claim what the PR checklist itself says.

How recent must the photo be?

The checklist says taken recently without publishing a month figure, so we do not invent one. Keep it current — ICA reviews every application.

Can I edit or retouch the photo?

No. ICA's photo guidelines require the digital photo to be original, without alterations using computer software or a mobile app. We only crop, position and size.

What about the photo for a Singapore Employment Pass?

There is no photo to submit for an EP: the Ministry of Manpower captures your photo and fingerprints in person at its services centres during card registration. The PR application is the Singapore channel where you actually upload a photo.

Who needs a photo in a PR application?

Every applicant. A non-applying spouse or a sponsor does not need one.

Our own assumptions

The PR document checklist publishes the pixel canvas (400 x 514), the white background and the headgear rule — but no file format, no file-size limit, no head-height figure and no month count for “recently”. We leave each of those unstated rather than borrowing the passport channel's figures, and we deliver a JPEG, the format ICA's own e-services accept elsewhere.
The 69.8% head proportion matches our Singapore passport layout so both ICA channels get consistent framing — it is our choice, not an official requirement.
⚠️ There is no equivalent line for Singapore work passes: MOM captures the photo and fingerprints in person at its services centres during card registration, so an Employment Pass has no photo-submission step at all.
The chin is measured by 68-point facial landmarks; the crown comes from the top of the cut-out outline. Assumed accuracy ±5%, calibrated only on synthetic fixtures.

Where the authority does not specify something, we say so rather than pretending it does. The points above are our engineering choices, not official requirements.