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[Closed] Baby Passport Photo, is this acceptable?

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Hi, sorry this is a bit random, but I don't know where else I can get a quick answer! We need to get our 7week old son a passport, provided it's printed at the right size etc, will the below photo be acceptable for his passport?

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Posted : 28/06/2013 10:26 am
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Doesn't it need the photographer's stamp on the back, regardless of whether or not you got the proportions right?

EDIT: Very cute little guy, by the way.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 10:27 am
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I suspect the background won't be acceptable.

[url= https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports ]https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports[/url]


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 10:28 am
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STOP STARING AT ME!


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 10:35 am
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Doesn't it need the photographer's stamp on the back,

No.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 10:47 am
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Dez now has a new desktop background...

DrP


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:18 am
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Needs a little white rectangle with a bunch of random numbers added to it...
Cute little lad.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:24 am
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Had similar recently and used post office Check&Send service. Not too bad a service IMO.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:28 am
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Nope, will get rejected. We tried and failed and ended up getting Jessops to do it…


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:29 am
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Doesn't it need the photographer's stamp on the back, regardless of whether or not you got the proportions right?

We took and printed our own passport photos for our 6 month old last year. No problems at all.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:30 am
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[url= http://www.timpson.co.uk/services/24/photo-id-amp-passport-photos ]Timpsons do it as a service too[/url], at least some of them do.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:44 am
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Looks OK to me, I took baby photos for both of my childrens passports and they were similar to that.

Your background is plain white so can't see why that would be a problem.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 11:44 am
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Not sure if your photo of the cool little guy will pass but a few tips:

- pre-fill the form on-line using the passport website. They post you a completed version, you just get it endorsed and send back.

- we used Timpsons for the photo, free reshoot if it's not OK as the one I shot was rejected by post office on colour and background despite being good and professional printed

- use check and send at the post office, they will advise if photo is OK

Doing all the above, our wee man had his passport back in 3 days from sending! I suspect pre-filling the form meant no checking and no data entry so it was amazingly fast.


 
Posted : 28/06/2013 12:02 pm
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Blatant excuse to post a pic of your little fella.

Good work, mrchrispy approves


 
Posted : 03/07/2013 10:42 pm
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wwwaswas+1 - I think that will fail.

Lovely babba though..... đŸ˜€


 
Posted : 04/07/2013 5:36 am
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I've been knocked-back before, for pics that I thought should be fine. According to the rules, they may pull you up for:
Too much shadow.
Background not plain/flat.
Head slightly tilted.

Having said that, the concept of baby passport photos is a bit flawed. I have a 6 month old and his passport shows him at 3 months: he'll still have it when he's a 5 year old schoolboy... Probably totally useless as a form of recognition by then.

Good pic by any other standard though. Your boy looks cool.


 
Posted : 04/07/2013 7:31 am
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I'd be the worst customs baby inspector on earth.
if everyone put this as their baby photo
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I'd wave them through. They all look identical to me. It took me a month or so to be able to recognise my own.


 
Posted : 04/07/2013 7:45 am

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