重点都在前部分，后部分很多废话。

重点：要求彩色，六个月内拍摄，白、灰或灰白背景，不可戴眼镜。

照片图像要求

根据需要提交纸质照片还是数码照片，您需要牢记对图像的不同要求：

纸质照片

• 照片必须打印在照片质量的纸张上，该纸张可以是无光或光面照片纸。
• 在纸上打印时，照片尺寸必须恰好是2 x 2英寸（51 x 51毫米）。
• 照片中的头部从下巴底部到头发顶部应在1英寸和1 – 3/8英寸（25到35毫米之间）之间。
• 从照片底部开始，眼睛的高度在1 1/8英寸至1 3/8（28 mm – 35 mm）之间。

电子照片

• 从头部的顶部（包括头发）到下巴的底部，头部的高度应在图像总高度的50％到69％之间。
• 图片必须为正方形，最小尺寸为600 x 600像素，最大尺寸为1200 x 1200像素。
• 图像大小必须小于或等于240 KB（kB）。 为了满足最大尺寸要求，如果需要压缩图像，则压缩率应小于或等于20：1
• 图片必须为JPEG（.jpg）文件格式
• 图像必须是sRGB色彩空间中的彩色图像，这是大多数数码相机最常用的格式。

去哪里拍照

由于有很多要求，您自己拍照很难满足要求，因此最好使用专业的照相服务。

在美国，您可以访问许多地方，例如FedEx Office，Walgreens和CVS。 您也可以访问自己选择的私人照相馆。

即使您可能想通过自己照相省一些钱，但您一定不希望冒整个签证或绿卡申请被拒绝或延迟的风险，因为这会招致更多的费用和/或困难。

图片’照片要求在美国政府网站的网址：

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/photos.html

使用美国国务院的免费照片工具：

启动照片工具

选择存储在计算机上的数字图像

如有必要，调整大小并旋转它

将其裁剪为正好 600 x 600 像素的方形图像，然后

将其保存到您的计算机进行打印

此工具需要 Adobe Flash Player 10 或更高版本。

请注意：此工具仅用于照片裁剪。 国务院员工将最终决定您的签证照片是否可以用于您的申请。

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下面是详细要求，给有耐心人看的

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在申请美国签证或绿卡的时候，您需要提交照片。以下我们提供了一些照片要求帮助您核对照片符合标准。这些照片要求适用于美国签证，绿卡（永久居民卡），多种签证抽签，和美国护照本质上的要求是一样的，除了在美国护照照片中允许戴眼镜。

照片要求

• 照片必须是彩色照片。不可以提交黑白照。
• 照片必须是最近六个月内拍摄。需要能够体现近期相貌。
• 照片需要以白色或灰白色作为背景颜色
• 快照，杂志照片，大头贴或手机照片，或全长的照片都是不符合要求的。
• 从其他类似驾照等正式文件中复印的照片不可使用。
• 照相时不要穿制服或与制服类似的服装，非宗教原因，不要穿戴迷彩装束，除此之外，正常生活装束即可。
• 申请人照相时不能带任何帽子或头饰。由于宗教原因每天必须穿戴的，申请人必须提交其签字证明。无论如何，任何物体或头饰不能遮挡脸部。
• 不能够戴耳机，无线电子产品，或类似产品。然而，日常佩戴助听器或类似配件可以使用。
• 照片应是全脸照，并正对镜头。
• 这张照片必须是整个脸水平居中的清晰照片。不对焦的文件或照片是不可接受的。您的表情应该是自然并双眼睁开。怪异表情和眯眼的照片不合格。
• 自2016年11月1日起，禁止在拍照时佩戴眼镜，但因医疗原因不能摘除眼镜的罕见情况除外;例:申请人最近做过眼部手术，需要佩戴眼镜来保护眼睛。在这些情况下，必须提供由医疗专业人员/医生签署的医疗声明。如因医疗原因需要佩戴眼镜:
  • 镜框不能盖住眼睛。
  • 眼镜上的反光不能遮挡眼睛。
  • 眼镜上的阴影或折射不能遮住眼睛。
• 太阳镜或有色眼镜是不允许的，除了申请美国护照的情况下，因医疗原因可以允许使用较深颜色的处方眼镜。但是可能需要医疗证明。
• 每人都需要提交自己的照片。照片中不能有其他东西或其他人存在。
• 如果是孩子，必须是照片上唯一的人。孩子不能让父母抱在怀中或手中，也不能在照片中使用其他东西支撑。

如果要给宝宝拍照，你可以让他平躺在一张白色或灰白色的床单上，或者用同样的床单盖在汽车座椅上。任何一种方法都可以确保婴儿的头部得到支撑。需要确保宝宝的脸上没有阴影。

孩子双眼需要睁开，并且直视相机镜头。

• 不可修图或以任何方式修改，因为这可能会改变外观。不过可以在拍照时使用相机中的红眼缩小选项。

照片样本

符合要求的签证照

光影要求

✓XX

照片需要清楚，没有阴影。请确保在光线足够均匀的地方拍照，不要太亮或太暗，从而使照片曝光过度或曝光不足。

眼镜

✓XX

不能佩戴处方眼镜或墨镜。

尺寸和位置

✓XX

头部需要居中，调整至正确尺寸。

分辨率、打印尺寸和质量

✓XX

分辨率应清晰无任何可见像素或打印机点。 照片不应模糊，粗糙，且尺寸应适当。

修图和润色

✓XX

照片不能调整或裁剪。

姿势和表情

✓XX

申请人需要直视镜头并且表情自然，睁开双眼。申请人不能低头，仰头，侧头，笑，或闭眼。

着装，帽子，发型

✓XX

照片需要露出全脸，不能有阴影或者遮挡住脸的衣物。不应该有奶嘴，围巾，帽子，或任何其他遮住脸的东西。头发不应该遮住脸。

背景

✓XX

背景必须为白色或灰白色。 除白色外不得为其他任何颜色。 不论照片中的年龄如何，背景中都不应有物体，也不应有其他人。

儿童

✓XX

照片中不应有其他人。 儿童应睁开双眼面对相机。 孩子应该直接看镜头，而不要四处张望。 这个孩子不应有夸张的表情。 双手或奶嘴等任何东西都不能遮住脸。

非移民签证照片要求

通过填写在线表格（例如DS-160或DS-1648表格）申请非移民签证时，将要求您上传数码照片。 您需要检查上面列出的数码照片要求，以确保其在所有方面均符合要求。

在DS-160表格的确认页上，如果照片处显示X而非照片，就意味着您的照片上传失败了。上传失败时，您需要携带一张纸质照片到您面签的领馆。

无论如何，一些美国大使馆和领事馆会要求签证申请人携带一张纸质照片。 由于情况有所不同，请与您要申请的特定美国大使馆/领事馆联系。

移民签证照片要求

正在用DS-260表格申请移民签证的申请人须在移民签证面签时提供两张纸质照片。

多样性签证（DV）计划照片要求

在线申请多样性签证（DV）程序时，作为满足以下要求的申请过程的一部分，您需要上传数码照片：

• 照片必须为JPEG（.jpg）文件格式。
• 照片必须为正方形，尺寸应为600 x 600像素。
• 照片的文件大小必须等于或小于240 KB（kB）。

如果要扫描现有照片，则纸质照片必须为2 x 2英寸，并且应以每英寸300像素（每毫米12像素）的分辨率进行扫描。

如果您被选中参加多样性签证抽签计划，则需要带两张相同的纸质照片参加面签。

面貌改变

即使您的照片是在最近6个月内拍摄的，但是如果您的外观与照片中的照片相比有明显变化，您也需要重新拍摄一张照片。 简单地留胡子或染发并不被认为是重大改变。 只要可以从照片中识别出您，就不需要新照片。 经过正常成长过程的儿童和青少年不需要新照片。 但是如果您经历了重大的面部手术或创伤，添加或删除了大量\较大的面部穿孔或纹身，经历了大量的体重减轻或增加，或者获得了新的性别认同，那么这被认为是重大的外观变化和新的 需要照片。

无论如何，是否接受您的照片将由美国大使馆/领事馆或USCIS决定。

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下面是英文版介绍

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US Visa and Green Card Photograph Requirements

While applying for a US visa or green card, your photograph is required. There are numerous requirements to make sure that the photograph is correct.  The photograph requirements for the US visa, green card (permanent resident card), diversity visa lottery, and the US passport are essentially the same except prescription glasses are allowed in US passport photos.

US Visa and Green Card Photograph Specifications

• The photo must be in color. Black and white photographs are not accepted.
• The photo must have been taken within the past six months of you submitting the application. It should reflect your current appearance.
• The photo must be taken in front of a white or off-white background.
• Snapshots, magazine photos, low-resolution vending machine or mobile phone photos, or full-length photos are unacceptable.
• Photos copied or digitally scanned from another official document such as a driver’s license or photos are unacceptable.
• Uniforms, clothing that looks like a uniform, and camouflage attire should not be worn in photos except in the case of religious clothing that is worn daily. You should wear normal clothing that you wear on a daily basis in the photo.
• While getting your photograph taken, you must not wear a hat or head covering that obscures you hair or hairline, unless worn daily for a religious purpose, such as Sikh male’s turban. Your full face must be visible; the head covering must not cast any shadows on your face.
• Photos must not be taken with headphones, wireless hands-free devices, or similar items. However, a hearing device or similar articles may be worn in the photo if you normally wear them.
• The photo must be taken with a full-face view directly facing camera.
• The photo must be a clear shot of your entire face horizontally centered. Profile shots or photos not in focus are unacceptable. Your expression should be neutral with both eyes open. Photos with unusual expressions and squinting are unacceptable.
• Effective November 1, 2016, eyeglasses are not allowed in photo, except in rare circumstances where eyeglasses cannot be removed for medical reasons; e.g., the applicant has recently had ocular surgery and the eyeglasses are necessary to protect the applicant’s eyes. A medical statement signed by a medical professional / health practitioner must be provided in these cases. If the eyeglasses are necessary for medical reasons:
  • The frames of the eyeglasses must not cover the eye(s).
  • There must not be glare on the eyeglasses obscuring the eye(s).
  • There must not be shadows or refraction from the eyeglasses obscuring the eye(s).
• Sunglasses or tinted glasses are not allowed, except in case of applying for a US passport, prescription glasses that have dark on tinted lenses for medical reasons are allowed.  However, a medical certificate may be required to verify prescription eyewear.
• Each person must have their own photo. There should be no one else and nothing else in the photo.
• In case of a child, he/she must be the only person in photo. A child can not be in the arms or hands of a parent holding the child and no other support can be used in the camera’s frame.

In case of a photo for the baby, you can either lay them flat on their back on top of a plain white or off-white sheet, or cover a car seat with the same. Either approach would ensure that the baby’s head is supported. You need to make sure that there are no shadows on your baby’s face.

Both of the child’s eyes must be open and looking straight ahead towards the camera.

• Photographs must not be digitally enhanced or altered in any way as it could change your appearance. However, you can use the red-eye reduction option in the camera while taking the picture.

Sample Photographs

Acceptable Visa Photos

Shadows and Lighting

✓XX

The photo should be clear with no shadows. Be sure that the lighting is adequate to evenly illuminate you and not too bright or too dull so that the photo is overexposed or underexposed.

Glasses

✓XX

Prescription glasses or sunglasses are not allowed.

Size and Position

✓XX

Head should be centered and of the correct size.

Resolution, Print Size, and Quality

✓XX

Resolution should be sharp without any visible pixels or printer dots. Photo should not be blurred, grainy, and should be of the right size.

Digital Alternations and Retouching

✓XX

The image should not be altered or cropped.

Pose and Expression

✓XX

Applicant needs to directly face the camera with natural and neutral expression with both eyes clearly being visible. Applicants should not be looking down, up, sideways, laughing, or have their eyes closed.

Attire, Hats, and Hair

✓XX

A full face should be visible with no shadows or clothing that would obscure the face. There should be no pacifier, scarf, hat, or anything else obscuring the face. Hair should not block the face.

Background

✓XX

The background must be white or off-white. It should not be any other color than white. There should be no objects in the background and no other person(s), regardless of their age in the photo.

Child

✓XX

There should be no other person in the photo. The child should be facing the camera with both eyes open. The child should be looking directly at the camera and not be looking around. The child should not have an exaggerated facial expression. Nothing can cover the face such as their hands or pacifier.

Nonimmigrant Visa Photo Requirements

When applying for a non-immigrant visa by completing online forms such as either a Form DS-160 or DS-1648, you will be asked to upload your digital photo. You need to review the digital image requirements, listed above, to make sure it complies in all aspects.

On a DS-160 or DS-1648 application confirmation page, if there is an “X” instead of your photo, that means your photo upload failed. When your photo upload fails, you need to carry one paper photograph with you to the US embassy/ consulate where you will be applying.

In any case, some US embassies and consulates require visa applicants to bring one paper photograph. As this varies, please check with the specific US embassy/consulate where you will be applying.

Immigrant Visa Photo Requirements

Applicants that are applying for an immigrant visa using a Form DS-260 must provide two identical paper photographs at the time of the immigrant visa interview.

Diversity Visa (DV) Program Photo Requirements

When applying for a Diversity Visa (DV) program online, you need to upload your digital photo as part of the application process that meets the following requirements:

• Photo must be in JPEG (.jpg) file format.
• Photo must be square and dimensions should be 600 x 600 pixels.
• File size of the photo must be equal to or less than 240 kilobytes (kB).

In case you would like to scan an existing photo, the paper photo must be 2 x 2 inches and should be scanned at a resolution of 300 pixels per inch (12 pixels per millimeter).

If you are selected for the diversity visa lottery program, you need to bring two identical paper photos to the interview.

Photo Image Requirements

Depending upon whether you are required to submit a paper photo or digital photo, you need to keep different requirements for the image in mind:

Paper Photo

• The photo must be printed on photo quality paper, which can be either matte or glossy photo paper.
• The photo size must be exactly 2 x 2 inches (51 x 51 mm) when printed on paper.
• The head in the photo should between 1 inch and 1 – 3/8 inches (between 25 and 35 mm) from the bottom of your chin to the top of your hair.
• The eye height is between 1 1/8 inches to 1 3/8 (28 mm – 35 mm) from the bottom of the photo.

Digital Photo

• Your head should be between 50% and 69% of the image’s total height from the top of the head, including the hair, to the bottom of the chin.
• The image must be square with the minimum dimensions being 600 x 600 pixels and the maximum dimensions being 1200 x 1200 pixels.
• Image size must be less than or equal to 240 kilobytes (kB).   In order to meet the maximum size requirement, if the image needs to be compressed, the compression ration should be less than or equal to 20:1
• Image must be in JPEG (.jpg) file format
• Image must be a color image in sRGB color space, which the most common format for most digital cameras.

Where to get photographs taken

As there are many requirements and it is hard to meet all of the requirements by yourself, it is the best to use a professional photo service.

In the US, you can visit many places like FedEx Office, Walgreens, CVS.  You can also visit a private photo studio of your choice.

Even though you might be tempted to save some money by taking the picture yourself, you may not want to risk your entire visa or green card application being rejected or delayed where you could incur significantly more expenses and/or hardships.

Appearance Change

Even if your photo was taken within the last 6 months, if your appearance has significantly changed from what is in the photo, you would need to get a new photo taken.  Simply growing a beard or coloring your hair is not considered a significant change. As long as you can be identified from the photo, a new photo is not required. Children and teenagers that go through the normal process of growing do not need a new photo. However, if you have undergone significant facial surgery or trauma, added or removed numerous\large facial piercings or tattoos, undergone a significant amount of weight loss or gain, or obtained a new gender identity, that is considered a significant appearance change and a new photo is required.

In any case, it will be at the discretion of the US Embassy/Consulate or USCIS whether to accept your photo or not.