Netherlands Visa Photo Maker

What the Netherlands application actually asks for

• The Netherlands applies its OWN national photo criteria to a Schengen visa submitted to it, which is unusual: its visa checklist tells applicants to bring a photo meeting Dutch requirements rather than a generic Schengen one. That means a smaller head than our German or French pages show — 26 to 30 mm chin to crown for ages 11 and over.
• Background may be light grey, light blue or white, and prints want a minimum of 400 DPI. If you apply through an external service provider, a digital photo is taken at your appointment and you do not need to bring one.
• The Dutch national criteria that govern here also cover the driving licence and identity card, so the same recorded geometry applies across those named Dutch documents. Do not generalise that cross-document rule to another destination without checking its own sources.
• The 26 to 30 mm head band on a 45 mm frame works out to roughly 58 to 67 percent of the image. That is visibly smaller than the 70 to 80 percent framing recorded on the Germany and France pages here, so a crop prepared to either of those ranges would be too tight for this application.
• The 413 x 531 pixels shown by the tool are a print conversion reference, not a published Dutch visa-upload canvas. At an external service-provider appointment, follow the cited live digital-photo process instead of treating the reference JPEG as a required upload.