Sweden Visa Photo Online — 35 × 45 mm for a Swedish Schengen Visa

Need a Sweden visa photo? For a Swedish Schengen visa — a short stay of up to 90 days — the photo is 35 × 45 mm (3.5 × 4.5 cm), in colour and no more than 6 months old. Swedish missions ask for a white background; VFS Global, which takes applications for Sweden in many countries, asks for a monochromatic, light background.

Check first whether you need a printed photo at all: your photograph and fingerprints are collected as biometric data when you lodge the application, so a first-time applicant who applies in person is photographed on site. If your checklist asks for a photo, upload yours here: IDPhotoBy crops and resizes it to 35 × 45 mm, checks the background and gives you a printable sheet to bring to your appointment.

These Swedish visa photo requirements come from the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket), Swedish missions and VFS Global's photo guidelines for Sweden:

• Size: 35 mm wide and 45 mm high (3.5 × 4.5 cm); VFS Global gives a width of 35–40 mm.
• Background: white, according to the Swedish missions in Abu Dhabi, Istanbul and New Delhi; monochromatic and light, according to VFS Global.
• Recent colour photo: taken straight from the front and no more than 6 months old — both stated by Migrationsverket.
• Head and face: the head shown in full and centred, with the face taking up 70–80% of the photo — about 32–36 mm from chin to crown.
• Expression and eyes: a neutral expression with the mouth closed; eyes open and clearly visible, with no hair across them.
• Lighting: uniform, without shadows or flash reflections.
• Glasses: no reflections and no tinted lenses, and the frames must not cover the eyes.
• Head coverings: only for religious reasons, with the face visible from chin to forehead and both edges of the face showing.
• Print: on high-quality paper at high resolution.
• Unedited: the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok asks for an unedited photo.

Not every applicant does. Migrationsverket states that photography — and, where applicable, fingerprinting — is compulsory when a visa application is examined. Your photo is taken as biometric data when you lodge the application. A printed photo is needed when your checklist asks for one:

• A representative applies for you. Migrationsverket lists "A passport-sized photograph" only for this case. A representative can apply if you applied for a Schengen visa to Sweden or another Schengen country within the past five years and gave fingerprints then.
• Embassy in Bangkok: a photo is compulsory for children aged 0–12 and for applicants who do not appear in person but have already given biometric data.
• Embassies in New Delhi and Abu Dhabi: both list a photo for every applicant; New Delhi asks for one photo.

The Consulate-General in Istanbul, by contrast, says the photo is not needed for applicants who apply in person.

Your visa application is handled by Migrationsverket and Sweden's embassies and consulates-general. In many countries you lodge it at VFS Global, Sweden's external service provider; in others, at a Swedish embassy or consulate-general. In some countries another Schengen country's embassy represents Sweden and may require other documents.

This Sweden visa photo maker starts from a photo you already have:

1. Ask someone to take your photo with a phone camera, straight from the front, against a plain white wall in even light.
2. Upload it with the tool on this page — the Sweden visa document is already selected.
3. IDPhotoBy crops and resizes it to 35 × 45 mm and checks the background. In the preview, check that your whole head is shown and centred and your eyes are clearly visible.
4. Download the result with a printable sheet of 35 × 45 mm photos and print it on high-quality photo paper.

IDPhotoBy works on the framing, not on your face: it crops and resizes your photo to the Sweden visa photo size and checks the background. It does not retouch, beautify or AI-edit your face. It makes no acceptance promise either: no online tool can promise your photo won't be rejected, and the Swedish authorities handling your application decide.

Requirements and checklists can change. Check the official application portal before submitting, and follow the checklist of the embassy or VFS centre where you apply. Applying to a different Schengen country? See our Schengen visa photo page.