Vietnam passport photo · 4 × 6 cm

Checked and laid out to the official photo standard of the Ministry of Public Security’s Immigration Department, dated 2022-05-10, checked by us on 2026-08-17.

Vietnam is one of the few authorities we cover that publish an eye position — eyes about 60% of the way up the photo (officially: the distance from eyes to top is two-thirds of eyes to bottom) — and the photo you upload is printed on the passport itself. The online portal requires JPEG 2000, so you get a .jp2 file for the upload as well as the same photo as a print-ready JPEG at the official 4 × 6 geometry. The Ministry publishes these rules in Vietnamese; the English here is our rendering, with the original quoted in our source record.

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Official specification

Finished size	40 × 60 mm
Head height (chin to crown)	not published by this authority
Eye height	55–65% from the bottom
Background	plain white
File formats	JPEG 2000
File size	not published by this authority
Taken within	the last 6 months

Full rules

The photo you upload with an online application is printed on the passport itself — it is the finished product, not a reference copy.
Newly taken — no more than 6 months old.
Width to height ratio of 4 x 6.
The face occupies about 75% of the photo area.
The height from the eyes up to the top edge is approximately two-thirds of the height from the eyes down to the bottom edge — putting the eyes about 60% of the way up the photo.
Face looking straight ahead with both ears showing, head bare, and no tinted glasses.
White background.
Minimum resolution 300 dpi.
Online uploads must be in JPEG 2000 file format, and uploaded photos are automatically checked by software — read any error message carefully and follow its instructions.

Sources

https://dichvucong.bocongan.gov.vn/bocongan/tintuc/chitiet?matin=41
Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam — Immigration Department, photo standard for ordinary passport applications (Cục Quản lý xuất nhập cảnh) · page updated 2022-05-10 · we checked it 2026-08-17

Ảnh do quý vị sử dụng khi đăng ký hồ sơ sẽ được in trên hộ chiếu. Vì vậy, ảnh cần đáp ứng các yêu cầu sau: Ảnh mới chụp (không quá 6 tháng); Tỉ lệ ảnh: rộng x dài = 4 x 6; Tỉ lệ diện tích khuôn mặt chiếm khoảng 75% diện tích ảnh; Chiều cao từ mắt lên mép trên của ảnh xấp xỉ 2/3 chiều cao từ mắt xuống mép dưới của ảnh; Mặt nhìn thẳng, lộ 2 vành tai, đầu để trần, không đeo kính màu; Phông nền trắng; Độ phân giải tối thiểu 300dpi; Định dạng file jpeg 2000; Ảnh sau khi upload sẽ được phần mềm tự động kiểm tra chất lượng.

Questions

What are the Vietnamese passport photo requirements?

A newly taken photo no more than 6 months old, 4 x 6 ratio, white background, face looking straight ahead with both ears showing, head bare, no tinted glasses, the face occupying about 75% of the photo area, and a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Where do the eyes have to be?

Vietnam publishes an official eye position — one of the few authorities that do: the height from your eyes up to the top edge must be approximately two-thirds of the height from your eyes down to the bottom edge, which puts the eyes about 60% of the way up the photo. We lay out and check against exactly that.

Is the uploaded photo really printed on the passport?

Yes — the Ministry's own guidance says the photo you use when registering the application is printed on the passport. That is why the geometry matters: what you upload is the finished product.

What file format does the online portal need?

The official standard says JPEG 2000. Your download includes a .jp2 file encoded for the online portal and the same photo as a high-quality JPEG, ready to print at 4 x 6 cm for a paper application. The portal checks uploads automatically, so if it reports a problem, follow its message.

Why did my online upload get rejected?

The portal checks photos automatically. Common failures are edited or beautified photos, glasses glare, ears hidden by hair, and faces that are too small in the frame. Read the error message the portal gives you and follow its instructions.

Does Vietnam publish a head height in millimetres?

No — it publishes a face-area proportion (about 75% of the photo area) and the eye position. The 70% head height we lay out is derived so the eyes land at the official position; it is our choice, not an official head-height figure.

Our own assumptions

The Ministry publishes this standard in Vietnamese only. The rules above are our English rendering; the original Vietnamese is kept verbatim in our source record, and that original is what governs.
The online portal requires JPEG 2000. We deliver both: a .jp2 file encoded with OpenJPEG for the upload, and the same photo as a JPEG for printing at 4 x 6 cm. The .jp2 carries no dpi tag — at 800 × 1200 px it is 508 dpi on a 4 × 6 cm photo, above the official 300 dpi minimum — and the portal's automatic check has the final say.
Vietnam publishes a face-area proportion (about 75% of the photo area), not a chin-to-crown height. Our 70% head-height layout is derived so that the eyes land at the official position — about 60% up the photo — and it is our choice, not an official head-height figure.
The official eye-position rule says approximately two-thirds; the 55–65% acceptance band we check against is our engineering tolerance around the official 60% point.
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.