{"id":1029,"date":"2013-10-06T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/?page_id=1029"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T09:46:46","slug":"create-photo-for-visa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/visa-photos\/create-photo-for-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Create photo for a Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some destinations beyond the EU a visa is required for Swiss tourists or business travellers. For this visa two topical, coloured passport photographs are required regularly in the US-American format 2 \u00d7 2 inches or 5 x 5 cm. To get this special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/help\/visa-photos\/size-and-format\/\">visa photo format<\/a> can be difficult and expensive. Besides, it is quite easy to provide even a visa photo with the digital camera or the smartphone.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Visa photo demands<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile almost everywhere in the world the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/help\/passport-photo\/how-to-take-a-passport-photo-quick-guide\">biometric passport photograph regulations<\/a> are valid in slightly modified form. Briefly summarised this means, that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one may not smile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>one may look absolutly frontal into the camera and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>must stand in front of a monochrome light background (grey or white).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to the slightly larger frame than on normal passport photos usual in Switzerland, one must be able to see on the source photo also a part of the upper part of the body and regularly both shoulders entirely. Otherwise one notices with the fitting of the visa photo that something is absent below.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking a Visa Photo<\/h2>\n<p>Beset of all, one takes the photo, from 2 metres of distance. In addition, the camera should be held on eye level of the photographed person. For children one should go to the squat!<\/p>\n<p>Shades in the background can be avoided if one stands a few steps away from the wall and renounces to the flash of the camera. For this, the room should be illuminated birghtly &#8211; best of all during the day.<\/p>\n<p>Then the source photo can be cut in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/en\/upload\/visa.php\">visa photo generator<\/a> free of charge and be adapted to the suitable template.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some destinations beyond the EU a visa is required for Swiss tourists or business travellers. For this visa two topical, coloured passport photographs are required regularly in the US-American format 2 \u00d7 2 inches or 5 x 5 cm. To get this special visa photo format can be difficult and expensive. Besides, it is&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/visa-photos\/create-photo-for-visa\/\">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\/1029"}],"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=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions\/2218"}],"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=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}