Drop your photo, get a JPEG between 5 KB and 250 KB — the window the official Uganda e-visa portal enforces on every document upload. The resize runs in your browser; the photo never leaves your device.
Uganda visas are applied for online on the government's own portal, visas.immigration.go.ug (the Uganda e-Immigration System, run by the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, Ministry of Internal Affairs) — and the application wizard publishes one file rule that covers every upload slot: JPEG, PNG, BMP or PDF, minimum file size 5 KB, maximum file size 250 KB. For an ordinary tourist visa (single entry, USD 50) two documents are required whatever your purpose of visit: a recent passport-size photograph and your passport bio-data page (with at least 6 months' validity), with purpose-specific extras on top — a return ticket for tourism, an invitation letter and the host's immigration status for family visits, a conference invitation, and so on. This page has PixFit preset to that window: a 240 KB target (245,760 bytes — under “250 KB” whichever way the server counts kilobytes) with the 5 KB floor set. Drop your photo, download the result.
A phone photo today is 3–8 MB — twenty to thirty times over the cap — so nearly everyone hits the limit on the very first upload. Less obvious: the bio-data page has the same 250 KB cap, and a flatbed scan or a phone shot of a passport page is typically 1–4 MB. The portal accepts JPEG for it, so run the scan through the tool above exactly like the photo — but keep the whole page in frame and check the two machine-readable lines at the bottom stay crisp after compression; if they've gone soft, re-shoot flatter and closer rather than compressing harder. Prefer a PDF? Choose PDF in the format selector and PixFit wraps the fitted image into a one-page PDF guaranteed at or under the target, still entirely in your browser.
The portal publishes no pixel dimensions: “recent passport-size photograph” plus the 5 KB–250 KB window is the entire file spec. The resizer sites ranking for this search disagree with the portal and with each other: one sells a 500×500 pixel photo, two others sell 51×51 mm (2×2 inch) prints — and none of those numbers appear anywhere on the portal, while none of those pages mention the byte window that the portal actually enforces at upload time. A normal head-and-shoulders portrait crop at any reasonable resolution passes; the bytes are what get files rejected. If the screen in front of you states different numbers, the portal wins — over resizer sites, and over this page too. (The 5 KB floor only bites genuinely tiny files; if you ever hit it, PixFit meets minimums with spec-valid padding automatically.)
Applying for the East Africa Tourist Visa instead — the USD 100 joint visa covering Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda? It's a category on the same portal, and its document step shows the identical rule: JPEG/PNG/BMP/PDF, 5 KB to 250 KB per file, with a travel itinerary, the photograph, the bio-data page and a return ticket all mandatory. Everything on this page applies unchanged. Heading to Rwanda on its own visa instead? That's a different portal with different caps — see the Rwanda visa photo page.
Apply only on visas.immigration.go.ug — the space around e-visas is crowded with agent sites filing the same form at a markup; type the address rather than clicking an ad. The wizard's own payment notice is blunt: payment must be made online before the application is processed, online payments are non-refundable, and a surcharge may apply — so a rejected upload is not a free retry. 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 neighbourhood's other formats, see the Tanzania eVisa and Ethiopia e-Visa pages, or the full verified table.
Spec source: the portal's own application wizard (Add documents step, tourist and East Africa Tourist Visa categories) at visas.immigration.go.ug, as read July 2026. These numbers change — if the upload screen disagrees, believe the portal.