Spain Visa Photo — Make a 35×45 mm Print-Ready Photo

Need a Spain visa photo for a Schengen or a Spain national visa application? Upload a photo you already have and IDPhotoBy sizes and crops it to the standard Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (MAEUEC) and its outsourced BLS International visa centres use — 35×45 mm (3.5×4.5 cm), on a plain white background, with your head measuring 32–36 mm from chin to crown — with the Spain Visa document already selected. Because a Spain visa photo is print-only, not an online upload, you get a digital file and a print-ready photo (plus a printable sheet) to bring, with the rest of your application, to your in-person appointment.

IDPhotoBy does not retouch, beautify, or AI-edit your face — only the framing, size and background are prepared.

Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (MAEUEC) and its consular network set the photo rules for a Spain visa, and IDPhotoBy prepares your photo to match them. Your photo must:

• Measure 35 mm wide by 45 mm high (3.5×4.5 cm) — a recent, passport-style colour photograph. Some sites list this as the "passport photo size for Spain" — for a Spain visa, it's the same 35×45 mm figure.
• Head size 32–36 mm — measured chin to crown, ideally around 34 mm.
• Plain white background ("fondo blanco") — evenly lit, no shadows.
• Face forward, fully uncovered ("rostro totalmente descubierto") — no dark glasses, no reflections, and no garment covering the outline of your face.
• Neutral expression — full face, non-smiling.
• No more than 6 months old.

IDPhotoBy checks your uploaded photo against this specification and outputs a print-ready file at the correct size and background — you print it yourself and bring it to your appointment.

If you've seen two different sizes quoted for a Spain visa photo, you're not imagining it. Several Spanish consulates' general checklists round the size down to "tamaño 3x4" (30×40 mm), the older Spanish "carné" convention — while the Spanish Embassy in Astana's dedicated Schengen visa requirements state the photo must be "de 3,5x4,5 o 3x4", meaning Spain's own Ministry treats 35×45 mm and 30×40 mm as interchangeable for this document, not two competing specs.

IDPhotoBy produces the more precise 35×45 mm ICAO biometric size — the figure used by BLS International in its own dedicated Spain visa photo-specification sheets, and the one that lines up with the ICAO/ISO standard behind the EU Visa Code. If your consulate's checklist says "3x4 cm" instead, a 35×45 mm photo satisfies it under Spain's own stated equivalence.

You can prepare your Spain visa photo online — using IDPhotoBy's upload tool — but the visa application itself is not submitted online. Spain visa applications are lodged in person, by appointment, at a BLS International Spain Visa Application Centre in your country of residence — the commercial operator Spain's consular network outsources visa intake to in most countries — or directly at the consulate or embassy where no BLS centre exists. Your printed photo is glued to the paper application form.

At the same appointment, a separate live facial image and fingerprints are captured biometrically on site — this does not replace the printed photo you bring; both are required. IDPhotoBy does not submit anything to BLS or the consulate on your behalf: what you get is a print-ready photo file to print, glue to your form, and bring with the rest of your paperwork. Exact wording and minor details — such as the number of photocopies each office asks for — can vary slightly by consulate or BLS centre, so it's worth a quick check with the specific office handling your application before your appointment.

This same photo requirement covers Spain's short-stay Schengen visa (tourism, business, family visits, up to 90 days) and Spain's national long-stay visas — including study and non-lucrative residence visas — per Spain's own consulate instructions across multiple visa categories. Whichever of these you're applying for, the photo spec is the same: 35×45 mm, white background, taken within the last 6 months.

Upload a photo you already have — a recent phone photo works, as long as it's sharp and clearly shows your face. IDPhotoBy sizes and crops it to the 35×45 mm Spain visa standard and checks the background against the required white. You get a digital copy to keep, and a print-ready photo (plus a printable sheet, so you don't have to fight with print-shop crop settings) you can print at home or at any photo printer.

IDPhotoBy does not retouch, beautify, or AI-edit your face — only the framing, size and background are prepared. No online tool can promise BLS or the consulate will accept any photo; check the official application portal before submitting, and confirm any last-minute details with your specific consulate or BLS centre.