Drop your photo, get the 140×170 pixel JPEG the Ghana passport portal’s own FAQ states, under every mission’s file cap. The crop and resize run in your browser; the photo is never uploaded anywhere.
Ghanaian passport applications are filed online at passport.mfa.gov.gh, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ own portal — and its FAQ answers the photo question with a concrete table: uploaded photo at 140 pixels × 170 pixels, taken against a white background within the last 6 months, in JPEG or PDF format, with a file-size cap listed as “max 250 KB – 1 MB (varies by mission)”. This page is preset to exactly that: 140×170 pixels with a 250 KB ceiling — the cap that passes every mission’s variant. In practice a 140×170 JPEG lands a couple of hundred times under the cap, so you’ll get maximum quality automatically; the pixel count is the real requirement here, not the bytes.
Most passport-photo resizers hand back print-resolution files — 600×600, 630×810, 35×45 mm at 600 DPI — because that’s what most countries want. Ghana’s portal asks for something closer to a thumbnail, and a print-size file isn’t what the FAQ states. The good news: downscaling to 140×170 is the easy direction — any phone photo has detail to spare, and PixFit center-crops to the 14:17 shape and scales down cleanly. Drag the crop preview so your full head is centred with the forehead fully visible before you download. (If the upload form in front of you accepts a larger image, believe the form — but 140×170 is what the ministry’s own FAQ publishes.)
Ghana’s process takes your picture twice: the file you upload with the application, and a live photo captured at the Passport Application Centre during biometric enrolment. The portal’s own FAQ adds a practical warning for that appointment: do not wear white clothing — the capture uses a white background, and a white shirt disappears into it. The upload still has to be compliant, but it’s not the image that ends up laser-engraved in your passport, so don’t agonise past compliance.
The FAQ’s composition rules follow ICAO with a few strict Ghanaian specifics: full face visible and facing the camera, neutral expression, mouth closed, eyes open and clearly visible, forehead fully visible, both ears visible — stricter than most countries — no glasses (medical exceptions only), no headgear except for religious reasons, and no large earrings. PixFit fixes pixels and bytes; it cannot fix composition, so check your photo against the list on passport.mfa.gov.gh/faqs before you submit.
Apply only on passport.mfa.gov.gh — the space around passport applications is crowded with agent sites filing the same form at a markup; type the address rather than clicking an ad. And a passport photo travels with your name and Ghana Card 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. If a mission’s form asks for the PDF variant instead, PixFit’s PDF output mode wraps the same fitted JPEG into a one-page PDF under the target. For the region’s other formats, see the Nigeria passport and Togo eVisa pages, or the full verified table.
Spec source: the portal’s own FAQ (“What are the passport photo requirements?”) at passport.mfa.gov.gh/faqs, as read July 2026. These numbers change — if the upload screen disagrees, believe the portal.