Drop your photograph, get a 200×230 px JPEG between 20 and 50 KB — the OICL upload format, minimum included. Nothing is uploaded; it all runs in your browser.
The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd (OICL) — a government-owned PSU general insurer — runs two mass recruitments on the IBPS platform: AO (Generalist & Hindi Officers) — 300 posts in the 2025 exercise — and Assistant (Class III cadre) — 500 posts, recruited state-wise. Both detailed advertisements sit on orientalinsurance.org.in/careers, and both give the photograph the same numbers this page is preset to: a recent passport-style colour picture (4.5×3.5 cm) against a light-coloured, preferably white background, 200×230 pixels (preferred), file size between 20 kb and 50 kb, jpg/jpeg only. Caps, hats and dark glasses are not acceptable; religious headwear is allowed if it doesn’t cover the face; glasses are fine if your eyes are clearly visible. If the photo isn’t uploaded in the photo slot — or photo and signature are swapped — admission to the exam is rejected, and the advert says so in as many words. After the photograph, the two adverts stop agreeing.
Here is the catch this page exists for: the 34-page AO advertisement gives the photograph a dimensions-and-bytes block, the left thumb impression a full block (240×240 pixels at 200 DPI, i.e. 3×3 cm, 20–50 KB, black or blue ink, right thumb if the left is missing) and the handwritten declaration a full block (800×400 at 200 DPI, 10×5 cm, 50–100 KB, written in English in your own hand — the exact sentence is printed in the advert) — and gives the signature only rules: black ink on white paper, no CAPITAL letters, and if your signature at the exam doesn’t match the upload you’re disqualified. No dimensions. No byte window. Anywhere in the PDF. The form itself still enforces something, and everything around it says what: OICL’s own sibling Assistant advert, and every other advert in the IBPS family (SEBI, LIC, NIACL, ECGC…), uses 140×60 pixels, 10–20 kb — the IBPS signature page is preset to exactly that. Aim there, and believe the upload screen’s error message if it disagrees.
The Assistant advertisement takes the other route: it folds signature, thumb and declaration into one combined block with a single line — “Dimensions 140 × 60 pixels (preferred)” — and windows of 10 kb–20 kb for the signature and left thumb impression and 20–50 kb for the handwritten declaration. There is no 240×240 and no 800×400 anywhere in the Assistant PDF. Put the two adverts side by side and OICL contradicts itself across cadres: the AO thumb window (20–50 KB) and the Assistant thumb window (10–20 kb) don’t even overlap — a thumb impression sized for one cadre outright fails the other — and the declaration windows (50–100 vs 20–50 kb) only touch at 50. This is the same within-organisation divergence documented on the NIACL page, where the AO and Assistant adverts also disagree. The rule that keeps you safe: the advertisement for the post you are applying to is the spec — not a generic “insurance exam” table, not the other cadre’s numbers, and not a stale guide.
Unlike SEBI, SIDBI, PFRDA, LIC or NIACL forms, OICL’s AO advertisement has no webcam or QR live-capture step: the photo you upload is the photo of record. Identity is checked later — OICL captures your thumb impression and photograph at the venue on Main-exam (Phase II) day and verifies them subsequently; the verification authority’s decision is final and binding. The advert’s own advice: wash mehndi, ink or any coating off your fingers and dry them before the scan, and tell the centre staff if your thumb is injured. Two more traps it states plainly: the name on your call letter must exactly match your photo ID (candidates who changed names after marriage are singled out for “special note”), and every particular in the submitted form is final — no changes or correspondence entertained afterwards, and an application without a proper photo, signature, thumb and declaration is simply invalid. Assistants have one extra stage: recruitment is state-wise (you apply in one State/UT only and sit the exam there), and shortlisted candidates take a Regional Language Test before selection — the RLT notices are on the same careers page.
In the 2025 exercises: AO registration ran December 1–15, 2025 (fee ₹1,000 incl GST; ₹250 intimation-only for SC/ST/PwBD), Prelims January 10, 2026, Mains February 28, 2026, basic pay ₹50,925 — about ₹85,000 a month. Assistant registration ran August 2–17, 2025 (fee ₹850; ₹100 for SC/ST/PWD/ex-servicemen), Tier I September 7, Tier II October 28, 2025. Both cycles are complete — this page is evergreen for the next ones, and the numbers above are what the next adverts will most likely repeat. There are no dedicated OICL resize tools that we could find — generic IBPS resizers carry the family photo and signature numbers but say nothing about the AO advert’s missing signature spec or the cadre divergence. PixFit encodes to the window in your browser: it binary-searches JPEG quality to land inside 20–50 kb at 200×230, pads up with a spec-valid JPEG comment if a clean scan comes out under the floor, and writes a 200 DPI label. The near-identical IBPS photo, ECGC PO and GIC Re sets have their own pages. Your photo, signature, thumb print and handwriting never leave your device.
Spec sources: OICL’s own detailed advertisement PDFs on the careers page at orientalinsurance.org.in — AO (Generalist & Hindi Officers) 2025, REF OICL/Rect/DRE-2025/AO-I (34 pp, posted 01-12-2025), and Assistant 2025, REF OICL/Rect./2025 dated 01-08-2025 (46 pp) — “Guidelines for scanning and upload of documents” sections plus the biometric-data and how-to-apply sections, read August 2026. Photo 200×230 px (preferred) 20–50 kb in both; AO thumb 240×240 @ 200 DPI 20–50 KB and declaration 800×400 @ 200 DPI 50–100 KB with no signature numbers printed; Assistant signature/thumb 10–20 kb and declaration 20–50 kb under one 140×60 (preferred) line. The advertisement for the cycle you apply in — and the upload screen itself — win over this page.