Whether to apply for ID cards and passports, a Passport photo plays a significant part in our lives but, due to the rise in technology we are coming across one of the modern problems that are the increase of identity frauds.
So, to improve accuracy rates and to reduce identity frauds, a study conducted by the University of York on “Why a toothy smile makes it easier for you to be identified“.
In that study, they have concluded that having a closed mouth smile for a passport photo increases the chances of accuracy and can make face matching decisions much easier.
From the studies, we can safely assume to have at least a “closed-mouth smile in passport photos”.
But, These are just studies and none of them gonna makes a dent in the rules unless the country’s government mentions it in their passport photo rules.
These were the results we came up with when analyzing some of the most popular country’s passport photo rules.