{"id":674,"date":"2010-02-12T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idphoto.ch\/?page_id=674"},"modified":"2017-01-26T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:21:19","slug":"biometric-or-not","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/passport-photo\/biometric-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometric or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One distinguishes passport photos whether or not they are biometric. A “regular” passport photo<\/strong> is a small picture that represents a person’s face. Earlier, the person was\u00a0photographed mostly in the so-called half-profile.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, biometric passport photos<\/strong> are required for almost all official identification documents. For biometric passport photos, there are strict specifications<\/a> for head posture and facial expression. Also the size of the face on the photo is imposed. Moreover, the face is adapted to a template<\/a> in order to uniformly and correctly read out the biometric characteristics of the face.<\/p>\n

Overview of Swiss Identification Documents<\/h2>\n

For which Swiss identification documents currently biometric passport photos<\/strong> are required, can be found in following table:
\nForeigner’s identity card no image adjust\u00bb residence permit (biometric) Yes image adjust\u00bb badge no image adjust\u00bb driver’s license no image adjust\u00bb half-fare card no image adjust\u00bb identity card Yes image adjust\u00bb Passport customize Yes image\u00bb student ID no image adjust\u00bb visa Yes size determine\u00bb.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Document<\/th>\nBiometric Passport Photo required?<\/th>\nAction<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Foreigner’s identity card<\/td>\nno<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foreigner’s identity card (biometric)<\/td>\nyes<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Badge<\/td>\nno<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Driving license<\/td>\nno<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Half-fare<\/td>\nno<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ID-card<\/td>\nyes<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Passport<\/td>\nyes<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Student Card<\/td>\nno<\/td>\nAdjust image \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visa<\/td>\nyes<\/td>\nDetermine size \u00bb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One distinguishes passport photos whether or not they are biometric. A “regular” passport photo is a small picture that represents a person’s face. Earlier, the person was\u00a0photographed mostly in the so-called half-profile. Nowadays, biometric passport photos are required for almost all official identification documents. For biometric passport photos, there are strict specifications for head posture… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674\/revisions\/2191"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idphoto.app\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}