{"id":1025,"date":"2013-10-06T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/?page_id=1025"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T09:46:06","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/visa-photos\/requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Passport photo = visa photo? Unfortunately, not always!<\/h2>\n<p>According to the country of destination the demands for a visa photo differ slightly. Up to a few exceptions the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/help\/passport-photo\/how-to-take-a-passport-photo-quick-guide\">biometric regulations<\/a> apply as they are also valid in Switzerland for all identity card documents.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries require photos which must deviate minimally from the Swiss passport photograph regulations and, for example, have a blue or green background. Within the EU member states in general a light grey to white background is required.<\/p>\n<h2>The format for visa photos<\/h2>\n<p>In addition, two formats are common for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/help\/visa-photos\/\">passport photo for visa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the European standard format with the sizes 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm and<\/li>\n<li>the US-american standard format 5 cm x 5 cm (or 2 x 2 inches).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Questions? We help with pleasure!<\/h2>\n<p>If we have not listed exact information about your country of destination in our help, please feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/en\/contact\/\">write us a message<\/a>. We help with pleasure and answer your questions any time!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passport photo = visa photo? Unfortunately, not always! According to the country of destination the demands for a visa photo differ slightly. Up to a few exceptions the same biometric regulations apply as they are also valid in Switzerland for all identity card documents. Some countries require photos which must deviate minimally from the Swiss&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/visa-photos\/requirements\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1003,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025\/revisions\/2219"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}