Need a Canada visa photo? The document behind that search is usually the Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) — Canada's visitor or tourist visa — which needs a 35×45 mm photo on a plain white or light-coloured background, with your head 31–36 mm from chin to crown. Upload a recent portrait and IDPhotoBy sizes and crops it to that standard. It is free — no payment required.
One honest note up front: IRCC asks for two identical photographs printed on quality photographic paper. There is an online application too, but IRCC says a digital photo "must not be altered in any way" — which a cropped, resized file can't satisfy. So this tool makes a print-ready photo: download the file and a printable sheet, print your two copies, and submit them with your application.
The Canada Temporary Resident Visa photo rules are a print specification, and how you submit decides what you can use:
- Printed photos (the reliable route). IRCC's instruction is to provide two identical photographs, taken within the last six months and printed on quality photographic paper, submitted with your paper application.
- Online / digital upload. Where a digital photo is used, IRCC requires that it must not be altered in any way. A photo cropped, resized and placed on a white background by any tool has been altered, so it is not guaranteed there.
That is why IDPhotoBy formats your Canada visa photo for the printed route: it outputs your 35×45 mm photo and lays several identical copies on a printable sheet, so you can print the two photos the application expects.
Canada's Temporary Resident Visa photo requirements are set by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Check your photo against this checklist before you print:
- Frame at least 35×45 mm — the official frame is a minimum of 35 mm wide by 45 mm high (3.5×4.5 cm); the standard 35×45 mm satisfies it.
- Head 31–36 mm — from chin to crown.
- Plain white or light-coloured background — clear and well defined, with no patterns or objects.
- Full front view — face square to the camera and centred, with the top of the shoulders included.
- Neutral expression — neither frowning nor smiling, mouth closed.
- Taken within the last 6 months — one that still looks like you.
- Colour or black and white — both are acceptable to IRCC.
- Glasses — non-tinted prescription glasses only, with your eyes clearly visible; sunglasses are not acceptable.
- Head coverings — permitted only for religious reasons, and must not obscure your facial features.
The Canada visa photo size is 35×45 mm — that is 3.5×4.5 cm, or about 1 3/8 × 1 3/4 inches. IRCC states it as a minimum frame, and gives no official pixel size — this is a print specification. IDPhotoBy outputs an 827×1063 px file at 600 dpi, which prints at exactly 35×45 mm.
- Upload a recent, well-lit portrait with the tool on this page — the Canada visitor visa document is already selected.
- IDPhotoBy resizes and crops your photo to 35×45 mm with your head at 31–36 mm from chin to crown, and makes sure it meets the plain white or light-coloured background the specification requires.
- Preview the result — check the head size and position, the plain background, and that your eyes are clearly visible.
- Download the finished photo, free, and use the printable sheet to print the two identical photos you send with your application.
The free Canada visa photo maker doubles as a size checker and resizer for a photo you already have — no app to download.
IDPhotoBy sizes and crops the photo you upload to the 35×45 mm Canada visa standard, and makes sure it sits on the plain white or light background IRCC accepts. It does not retouch, beautify or otherwise edit your face — your features are left exactly as they are.
We also make no acceptance promise — no tool can promise a visa photo will be accepted. The file is prepared to IRCC's published print requirements, and the visa office decides.
Requirements can change — check IRCC's official Temporary Resident Visa photo specifications, and how your visa application centre wants the photos submitted, before you apply; they are the final authority.
