Azerbaijan e-Visa Upload — What the Portal Actually Asks For
Search for "Azerbaijan visa photo requirements" and nearly every result tells you the same thing: 30×40mm portrait photo, white background, 354×472 pixels. Here's the problem — that's not the e-visa requirement at all. That spec belongs to Azerbaijan's media accreditation card, published on the foreign ministry's site, and it appears to have been copied across visa-photo websites for years without anyone checking the actual application.
What the ASAN e-visa portal really requires
Verified directly on the live evisa.gov.az application form: the upload step asks for a scan of your passport's bio-data page — the spread with your photo and personal details — not a separate portrait photo of you. Accepted formats: JPG, JPEG or PNG. Maximum size: 10MB. No pixel-dimension constraint at all.
The one rule that actually matters: the crop
The portal's official sample page shows three example images — two rejected, one accepted — and the difference is purely framing. Rejected: the passport photographed on a table with background visible around it; the passport floating small inside a mostly-white frame. Accepted: the bio page filling the image edge-to-edge, nothing else visible. Crop tight to the page borders — no table, no margin, no surrounding white.
Preparing the scan
Photograph the open passport flat under even light, avoid glare on the laminate, then crop precisely to the bio page's edges. The file-size ceiling is generous at 10MB, so quality isn't the constraint — framing is. If your scan comes out larger than 10MB (rare, but possible from flatbed scanners at high DPI), the PixKB ASAN preset brings it under the limit without dimension changes.
Frequently asked questions
So Azerbaijan's e-visa needs no portrait photo at all?
Correct — the standard ASAN e-visa upload is the passport bio-page scan only. The 30×40mm portrait spec circulating online is Azerbaijan's media accreditation photo requirement, a different document entirely.
Why do so many sites show the wrong requirement?
The 30×40mm spec is publicly posted on mfa.gov.az (for media cards) while the real e-visa requirement only appears inside the application form itself — so sites copied the findable spec without completing an application.
Does the scan need to show both passport pages?
The bio-data page (with your photo and details) is what the sample shows, cropped edge-to-edge. Follow the portal's own sample images if in doubt.