Tip: Wear dark or coloured clothes: the background is white, and a white shirt blends into it.
Which centre for your area
Your address decides which Indian mission handles your application: the High Commission in London, the Consulate General in Birmingham or the Consulate General in Edinburgh. Either way you hand it in at a VFS Global centre, and all appointments are booked on the High Commission of India's appointment page (Consulate General of India, Birmingham: services through VFS).
Birmingham: Consulate General of India, 2 Darnley Road, Birmingham B16 8TE. For the West Midlands (Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall), Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, Cumbria, Durham, Cleveland, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Humberside, North, South and West Yorkshire, the Isle of Man and the Isles of Scilly. (Consulate General of India, Birmingham: jurisdiction, Consulate General of India, Birmingham: location)
Or make it at home. Picproved costs £5.99 (free while we launch) for one person's photo in every size you need, and it checks the size, background, head size and face rules before you save. The office still makes the final decision. Make your India Passport photo
Indian passport photo in the app
Indian passport photo, 630×810 px
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Questions
Where do I apply for this in the UK?
Indian passport renewals in the UK are handed in at VFS Global, the High Commission's only service partner (Consulate General of India, Edinburgh).
What photo does the Indian passport photo need?
Indian passport photos follow the ICAO guidelines: colour, white background, face 80 to 85% of the frame, glasses off (passportindia.gov.in: Guidelines for ICAO compliant photographs). The Passport Seva upload is exactly 630×810 pixels, JPEG, under 250 KB (VFS Global: Passport Seva photo and signature upload instructions (Nov 2025)). For the prints, VFS UK's current checklist (August 2026) asks for two identical 35×45 mm photos on a pure white background, the same as the 630×810 px upload, with no glasses (VFS Global UK: Passport Renew/Fresh checklist (Aug 2026)).
