Compress image for Indian visa application
The Indian Bureau of Immigration accepts JPEG photos up to 1 MB. Applications reject files above the cap.
Your images stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
The Indian e-Visa portal and consular visa applications share the same photo standard: JPEG, minimum 350×350 px, maximum 1 MB. Portrait applicants also submit a passport-page scan under 300 KB.
The preset below optimises for the photo specifically — for the passport scan use the 300 KB target-size page instead.
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Frequently asked questions
- What size should an image be for Indian visa application?
- Indian visa application typically caps individual image uploads at 1 MB. The preset on this page is tuned to land at or under 1 MB while keeping the image sharp enough for the form or profile it's going into.
- Why is Indian visa application so strict about image size?
- Government and platform forms enforce hard byte limits to control server-side storage costs and processing time. Uploading anything over the cap fails the form immediately, so hitting the target reliably matters more than a perfect quality-per-byte ratio.
- Is my image uploaded anywhere?
- No — compression runs in your browser. That matters for Indian visa application because the source images (passport photo, ID scan, signature) are sensitive by definition. Nothing touches our servers.
- Do I need to resize, or just compress?
- Both. The preset applies a dimension cap (usually matching what Indian visa application expects) and a quality reduction. Cropping to the exact required aspect ratio (e.g. passport photo) should be done first with the crop tool if the source is landscape or otherwise misaligned.
- Will the compressed image still be accepted?
- Yes — the preset targets slightly under the platform's declared cap, so submissions typically go through cleanly. Print quality won't match a raw camera export, but is well within what Indian visa application verification requires.
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Drop your image — quality and dimension defaults tuned for Indian visa application. Runs locally.
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