Even infants need passports these days – and you have to get a passport photo by the same rules as for adults: front of the face, eyes open, looking at the camera, no parental hands holding her up, white background, mouth closed… Apparently the best way to do this is to wait until baby is pooing

2 thoughts on “how to get a passport photo of a baby

  1. Martin

    OF COURSE babies need passports! I mean, they could be members of Al-Qaeda’s elite kindergarten terrorist cells. How would you know if they didn’t have passports?

  2. andrew stern

    We got our 1 yr-old’s passport photo approved with parental hands showing — somehow that transgression got through Homeland Security.

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