Check your photo before you upload it
A wrong-sized photo is one of the easiest ways to have an Indian passport, OCI or birth-registration application sent back — and one of the easiest things to catch beforehand. This checks yours in a couple of seconds.
Your photo never leaves your device
This is not a promise about what we do with your photo. It is a description of what the page is capable of: the picture is read by your own browser and measured in your phone’s memory. There is no upload. Nothing about the image goes into a web address. No analytics event carries anything about it. There is no third-party script on this page.
This page makes no cross-origin request of any kind. Its stylesheet, its script and the published list of photo requirements all come from homeberry.ai itself; it does not even load a web font, because that would be one more place a request could go. There is nowhere for your picture to be sent. Close the tab and it is gone, because we never had it — and if you turn off your internet after the page loads, it still works.
1. Which portal is the photo for?
2. Choose the photo
Or drag one here. On a phone this opens your camera roll. Nothing is sent anywhere.
3. What we found
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Questions
Does my photo get uploaded anywhere?
No. The photo never leaves your device. It is read by your browser and drawn onto a canvas in the page, and every measurement is taken there, in your phone or computer's own memory. There is no upload, nothing about the image is put into a web address, and no analytics event carries anything about it. This page makes no cross-origin request of any kind — not even for a web font — so there is nowhere for the picture to go. Close the tab and it is gone; we never had it.
Why do some checks say “can’t judge yet”?
Because we have not yet published that portal's official requirements, and we will not invent them. A made-up pixel size or file-size limit would tell you a perfectly good photo is wrong, or pass one that then gets rejected — which is worse than saying nothing. Those checks still report the measured facts about your file, so you can compare them against the requirements shown on the portal's own upload screen. When we publish a specification, the check turns on by itself.
Can you tell me whether my face is the right size in the frame?
No, and any tool that says it can from a simple browser check is overstating it. This checker does no face detection at all — nothing in it knows where your face is. The dashed oval drawn over your photo is a centring guide for your own eye, not a measurement. Head size, expression and eye level are the parts you have to judge yourself against the portal's own guidance, and they are worth being fussy about because the portal's guidance is strict on them.
What are the exact photo requirements for the Indian passport and OCI portals?
We publish the parts we have read from the issuing body and dated — for OCI and the adult passport the pixel range, the file-size limit, the format and the background rule; for Form I the 100 × 120 px, 20 KB, JPEG-only rule the portal states — and mark the rest as not yet published. The portal's own guidance is the authority, not a summary on someone's website, and we publish a requirement only once we have read it from the portal or its appointed provider's published guidance and dated it. If you want it done for you rather than checked, that is the service we sell.
My application was rejected over the photo. Would this tool have caught it?
Maybe, and maybe not — it is honest to say so. Where we hold the portal's published limit, it catches the mechanical failures: wrong pixel size, wrong shape, a file too large or too small, a background that is dark or blotchy, a format the portal will not take. Those are the failures a file check can catch, and they are avoidable. It cannot catch head size, expression, glare on glasses, hair across the face, or a shadow falling on the face rather than the wall. For those, look at the portal's guidance and be fussier than feels necessary.
Is it really free, and what is the catch?
It is free and there is no sign-up, no email, and nothing stored. The catch, stated plainly: we are a document-preparation company and we hope that if the photo turns out to be the easy part, you will let us handle the rest of the application. That is the whole business model of this page.
Nothing on this page is legal or immigration advice. It measures an image file. The portal’s own upload screen is the authority on what it will accept.