Canada Passport Photo — 50×70 mm

The Canadian frame is half again the area of a 35×45: 50 mm wide, 70 mm tall, with the head measuring 31–36 mm from chin to crown. All the familiar ICAO furniture applies — neutral expression, even lighting, plain white or light-coloured background, no shadows on face or backdrop — but crops made for other countries cannot be recycled; the aspect ratio itself is different, and a 35×45 blown up to 50×70 puts the head badly out of band.

Canada's distinctive rule is procedural rather than optical. For paper applications, photos are expected to come from a commercial photographer or studio, with the studio's name and address and the date printed or stamped on the back, and one photo certified by your guarantor for some application types. A geometrically perfect home print can be refused at intake on that basis alone. The realistic use of this page for a paper file is verification — measure your studio photo before you build the application around it.

The digital channels are where self-produced photos have room: Canada's online renewal pathways accept uploaded photos, with the program's own specifications shown in the application flow. Check the stream you qualify for, and if it takes uploads, the export here gives you the correct 5:7 geometry at print resolution to submit or to have printed.

Background language in the Canadian spec is more permissive than India's — plain white or light-coloured — but the uniformity requirement does the real work. The ΔE evenness check catches the gradient from a window off to one side, which is the most common flaw in Canadian home attempts precisely because the big frame includes more wall.