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The photographs must be:
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No more than 6 months old |
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35-40mm in width |
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Close up of your head and top of your shoulders so that your face takes up 70-80% of the photograph |
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In sharp focus and clear |
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Of high quality with no ink marks or creases |
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| The photographs must |
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The photographs must:
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Show you looking directly at the camera. |
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Show your skin tones naturally. |
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Have appropriate brightness and contrast. |
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Be printed on high quality paper, and at high resolution Photographs taken with a
digital camera must be of high quality colour and printed on photo-quality paper. |
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| Style and lighting |
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The photographs must be:
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Colour neutral. |
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Show your eyes open and clearly visible with no hair across your eyes. |
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Show you facing square on to the camera, not looking over one shoulder (portrait style) or tilted, and showing both edges of your face clearly. |
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Be taken with a plain light coloured background |
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Be taken with uniform lighting and not show shadows or flash reflections on your face and no red eye. |
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| Glasses and head covers |
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If you wear glasses:
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The photograph must show your eyes clearly with no flash reflection off the glasses, and no tinted lenses (if possible, avoid heavy frames - wear lighter framed glasses if you have them). |
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Make sure that the frames do not cover any part of your eyes. |
Head coverings :
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Are not permitted except for religious reasons, but your facial features from
bottom of chin to top of forehead and both edges of your face must be clearly shown. |
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| Expression and frame |
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Your photographs must:
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Show you alone (no chair backs, toys or other people visible), looking at the
camera with a neutral expression and your mouth closed. |
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