Bahrain visa applications use a 4x6cm photo on a plain white background, submitted as a digital upload through the eVisa portal.
A 4x6cm photo on a plain white background, uploaded with the eVisa application.
Bahrain uses the taller 4x6cm frame.
Your eyes must be clearly visible.
Evenly lit, nothing behind you.
Face centred, shoulders square to the camera.
40mm wide by 60mm high.
Bahrain's visa photo is 4x6cm — 40mm wide by 60mm high. It shares this frame with Oman, Vietnam and Indonesia, and it is taller than the 35x45mm photo used across Europe.
Your head sits at roughly 32-36mm chin to crown inside that frame. Cropping so the head fills the full 60mm height makes the face far too large for the format.
The eVisa portal takes the photo as a digital upload.
Bahrain visas are generally applied for online before travel, so the photo is a file you attach to the application rather than a print.
Upload the saved file directly. Screenshots and phone photographs of printed copies lose resolution and pick up colour casts that make a white background read as grey.
Plain white, evenly lit, no shadows.
Use a plain white wall with nothing behind you. Stand about a metre away so your body does not throw a shadow onto the wall.
Even, frontal lighting keeps both your face and the background clean. Overhead light casts shadows into the eye sockets and under the nose.
Neutral face; religious coverings permitted.
Look straight at the camera with a neutral expression, mouth closed and both eyes open and clearly visible.
Head coverings worn for religious reasons are accepted as long as the full face from the chin to the top of the forehead stays visible and unshadowed.
Printed at 40 x 60mm, 945 x 1417px, JPG, under 2MB. Computed from this photo's own specification, not typed by hand.
Create the 4x6cm photo a Bahrain eVisa application needs — white background, correct proportions, free and 100% private.
Choose a clear, recent colour photo from your phone or computer.
We crop to 40x60mm with your head at 32-36mm.
Save the file and attach it to your eVisa application.
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