The US requirements are similar. We also specify eye height from bottom of photo. We allow a slightly smaller head, but require a larger photo. http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/get_874.html The mm values are relatively new. The last time I looked, the required dimensions were inches only. Another page gives overall photo size as 2" x 2" (51 mm x 51 mm). What goes in the passport is trimmed down from that size.
--- On Sun, 2/6/11, Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:49779] Re: US Passport renewal To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 12:16 AM Dear John, For comparison, the Australian passport photo requirements are 45 mm - 50 mm high and 35 mm - 40 mm across. There are also other requirements at https://www.passports.gov.au/web/requirements/photos.aspx Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia On 2011/02/06, at 11:47 , John M. Steele wrote: They want 2" x 2" although I think 50 mm x 50 mm is no problem. What remains of the original photo in my passport measures 33 mm x 43 mm, and was cut down from what was supplied, so I think it is to give them some border to work with. Photo must be "head-on" and you are not permited to smile. --- On Sat, 2/5/11, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:49774] Re: US Passport renewal To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011, 7:34 PM On Monday 17 January 2011 08:27:46 John M. Steele wrote: > I have not tried this (I plan to next time) but several USMA members have > pointed out that if you fill in the form by hand, there is no problem > submitting height in meters or centimeters. The data does not appear on > the passport in any case, it is only tucked away in government files. Besides specifying that height be in meters, the form should also be amended to allow passport photos in the most common size, which IIRR is 30 mm × 40 mm, though there are several countries besides the USA with idiosyncratic requirements about photos. One (I don't remember which) requires that the head be turned at 45° to the camera's view line. > I also note that they require "American style" dates (mm/dd/yyyy) which > they transpose on the passport to an internalional style dd mmm yyyy, with > an alpha month abbreviation. My recollection is that "landing cards" > require dd/mm/yyyy (I think filling it out wrong is your admission ticket > to the "Americans only" passport line on re-entry). Should we also push > for official use of ISO8601? Yes. Three-letter month abbreviations can be incomprehensible or even misleading between languages. The month whose name in Finnish begins "mar" is November. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang. Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
