Drop your photo, get a 600×800 px JPEG under 2 MB — the format the NIS passport portal’s own photo checker states. Everything runs in your browser; the photo is never uploaded anywhere.
Nigerian passport applications are filed online on the Nigeria Immigration Service’s own portal, passport.immigration.gov.ng — and unusually, the portal publishes its photo rules as a checklist on its own Test Photo Upload screen: image size less than 2 MB, resolution 600×800 pixels, white background, hair not covering the face or ears, no headphones or masks, and even lighting — neither too dark nor too bright. The upload slot itself accepts JPG, JPEG or PNG. This page has PixFit preset to exactly that: 600×800 pixels with a 1.9 MB ceiling (1,945,600 bytes — under “2 MB” in every way a computer might count kilobytes). Drop your photo, position the crop so your head is centred, download the result. A 600×800 JPEG at full quality is naturally far below 2 MB, so expect maximum quality with no visible loss.
NIS gives you the judge before the exam: the portal’s home page has a Test Photo Upload card that checks a photo for compliance before you begin the paid application. Use it — resize here, then run the file through the portal’s checker. PixFit fixes the mechanical half (pixels, bytes, format); the checker also judges the picture itself: white background, face and ears unobstructed, no shadows, no headgear or headphones. For children under 5 the portal notes ICAO’s relaxed rule — the child must look toward the camera with the face centred, but perfect adult composition isn’t expected.
The top search results for this spec disagree with the portal and with each other: one popular resizer sells a 35×45 mm photo at “600 DPI”, another says 120×140 pixels, a third asks for a minimum of 600×600. None of those figures appear on the portal’s own instruction list, which states 600×800 pixels, under 2 MB. The millimetre figures describe printed passport photographs — a paper spec pasted onto a digital upload. If the screen in front of you states different numbers, the portal wins — over resizer sites, and over this page too.
passport.immigration.gov.ng is the domestic portal — its own landing notice directs applicants outside Nigeria to a separate flow (the “Apply from outside Nigeria” button). The photo rules above are the domestic portal’s; if the diaspora flow’s upload screen states something different, satisfy the screen in front of you.
Apply only on passport.immigration.gov.ng (the NIS main site is immigration.gov.ng) — 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, date of birth and NIN, 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 can be dropped straight in — the output is a portal-ready JPEG. For other countries’ formats, see the UK passport, Ireland passport and Singapore ICA pages, or the full verified table.
Spec source: the portal’s own Test Photo Upload instructions at passport.immigration.gov.ng (Image Compliance page), as read July 2026. These numbers change — if the upload screen disagrees, believe the portal.