Drop your photo, get a 571×744 px JPEG under 200 KB — inside the exact window Angola’s migration service (SME) publishes for the online visa application. Everything runs in your browser; the photo never leaves your device.
Angola’s online visa application is run by the Serviço de Migração e Estrangeiros (SME), and its official site publishes exact file rules on its visa-instructions page — in Portuguese, with numbers most resizer sites garble. The face photo (“Imagem da cara”) must be a .jpg/.jpeg with width between 381 and 571 pixels, height between 496 and 744 pixels, and a file size of at most 200 kb. The same instructions require the photograph itself to be recent, against a white background, and fit for official use. This page has PixFit preset to 571×744 pixels — the top of the allowed window, i.e. the most image the portal accepts — with a 195 KB ceiling (199,680 bytes, under “200 kb” whichever way the server counts kilobytes). Drop your photo, position the crop, download the result.
The same instructions give the passport scan (“Imagem do Passaporte”) its own, much tighter rule: width 480–1000 px, height 340–720 px, .jpg/.jpeg, at most 70 kb. A phone shot or flatbed scan of a passport page is typically 1–4 MB — twenty to fifty times over — and no resizer page ranking for this search even mentions the cap. To fit it here: type 1000x720 into Exact size and 68kb into the target, then drop your scan. Two practical notes: the crop is a cover crop, so shoot the passport page with a little margin around it — the trim then eats margin, not page — and after compressing, zoom in on the two machine-readable lines at the bottom; if they’ve gone soft, re-shoot the page flatter and better-lit rather than compressing harder. 1000×720 pixels at 68 KB is tight but genuinely readable when the source is sharp.
Everything else you attach — invitation letters, work contracts, and the rest of the list for your visa type — must be scanned at standard A4 and fit width 810–1250 px, height 1150–1770 px; as .jpg the cap is 150 kb per file, and multi-sheet documents are supposed to be saved together as one .tiff of up to 10.240 kb. For single-page documents, type 1250x1770 and 145kb here (1250×1770 is almost exactly A4’s shape, so nothing meaningful is cropped). PixFit outputs JPEG, WebP or PDF — it does not write TIFF — so for multi-sheet contracts use a scanner app’s TIFF export for that one file, and this page for everything else.
The pages ranking for this search disagree with the portal and with each other. One popular resizer sells exactly 381×496 pixels — that’s the bottom of the allowed window presented as the one true size, so it hands you the lowest-quality file the portal would accept. Another says the photo “must be 381–571 px” — the width minimum and width maximum mashed into a single figure, with the height rule missing entirely — and adds a requirement of “a resolution of 1 dpi”, which is nonsense. And neither page mentions the 70 KB passport-scan cap, the constraint that actually rejects most applications. The SME’s own instructions page states the full window; if the upload screen in front of you states different numbers, the portal wins — over resizer sites, and over this page too.
The instructions are explicit that the online submission is not the end of the process: you upload scans so the authorities can decide, then bring the original documents to the consulate for biometric data collection and interview, where they’re verified against what you submitted. The portal also shows a preview step before you finalize — the SME’s own advice is to check every uploaded image carefully there, because a bad scan caught after submission is not a free retry. Visa categories (tourism, short-stay, study, work, medical treatment) each have their own document list under Lei nº 13/19; read the list for yours on SME’s site before scanning.
The authority is sme.gov.ao — the space around visa applications is crowded with agent sites filing the same forms at a markup, so start from the government domain rather than an ad. And a visa photo travels with your passport details, so it shouldn’t detour through a resizer’s server: PixFit re-encodes entirely in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) as a side effect. An iPhone HEIC drops straight in — the output is a portal-ready JPEG. For the region’s other formats, see the Rwanda, Uganda and Djibouti pages, or the full verified table.
Spec source: SME’s own visa instructions at sme.gov.ao (Instruções page, in Portuguese), as read July 2026. These numbers change — if the upload screen disagrees, believe the portal.