Saudi Arabia Visa Photo Requirements
Almost every guide gives you the wrong photo. The Visit Saudi portal wants a small 200x200px square, not a 2x2in print.
The Saudi tourist eVisa photo is a 200 x 200 pixel image, between 5KB and 100KB, on a plain white background. It is a small square web upload, not a print photo - and if you make the 2 x 2 inch, 600 x 600px version nearly every other site recommends, you have made something roughly nine times the pixel count the portal actually asks for.
This covers the photo for the Saudi tourist eVisa. Work, business, Hajj and Umrah visas run through different systems with their own rules, and this page does not cover them.
What size is a Saudi visa photo?
200 x 200 pixels, 5KB to 100KB, on a white background - that is what the official Visit Saudi eVisa portal specifies. There is no millimetre size, because it is a web upload rather than a print. Your face should fill about 70 to 80% of the frame, measured chin to crown, square to the camera on plain white with no shadow.
Why everyone else says 2 x 2 inches
Search for a Saudi visa photo and you will be told to make a 2 x 2 inch, 600 x 600 pixel print - the US passport size. That figure is wrong for Saudi Arabia, and it spreads for a simple reason: third-party photo sites copy each other, and the Saudi requirement gets confused with the American one. Where a third-party site and the issuing authority disagree, the authority wins, and the Visit Saudi portal asks for 200 x 200px. A 600 x 600 upload is not a slightly bigger version of the right file - it is the wrong file.
The file has a floor as well as a ceiling
The spec is 5KB to 100KB, so there is a minimum size as well as a maximum. A normal portrait at 200 x 200 lands comfortably inside that window, but if you upload something extremely flat and plain it can compress below the 5KB floor - worth a glance at the file size you get back if your photo is unusually simple.
One more thing the portal does not tell you: it states no file format at all. JPEG is the safe conventional choice for a photo upload, but that is a sensible default rather than a stated Saudi requirement.
How to make one
The Saudi visa photo maker crops your photo to a square and outputs exactly 200 x 200 pixels, holding the file under the 100KB ceiling, on a white background - all in your browser, with nothing uploaded. It fills white behind a photo whose background has been removed, sets the square shape and the pixel size, and compresses to fit. It does not judge whether your face fills the right share of the frame or whether the lighting is even, so check those against the portal yourself. To compare requirements across countries, the visa photo maker hub lists only those verified against their own issuing authority, and many rejections come down to shared basics gathered in why passport photos get rejected.
FAQ
What size is a Saudi visa photo?
For the tourist eVisa, 200 x 200 pixels, 5KB to 100KB, on a white background, per the Visit Saudi portal. It is a web upload, so there is no millimetre or inch size - the widely-quoted 2 x 2 inch figure does not match the portal.
Why does everyone say 2 x 2 inches?
Saudi Arabia's requirement gets confused with the US 2 x 2 inch standard, and third-party sites copy one another. The issuing authority is the Visit Saudi eVisa portal, and it asks for 200 x 200px.
What file format should it be?
The portal does not say. This tool outputs JPEG because it is the safe conventional choice for a photo upload, not because Saudi requires it.
Does this cover work or Hajj visas?
No. This is the tourist eVisa spec from the Visit Saudi portal. Work, business, Hajj and Umrah applications go through different systems with their own photo rules.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The crop, resize and compression run in your browser using the Canvas API, so your photo never leaves your device.