{"id":4431,"date":"2010-03-01T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2011-01-03T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T07:42:51","slug":"tips-for-taking-passport-or-id-photos-and-renewing-malaysian-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2010\/03\/tips-for-taking-passport-or-id-photos-and-renewing-malaysian-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Taking Passport or ID photos and Renewing Malaysian Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve been reading my Tweets<\/a>, you might have read my moaning about having to renew my passport, which means having to take a new photo ID for the new passport.<\/p>\n

If you have a decent enough camera you can actually take your own passport photos – this way, you can be sure you look human, decent and not like a fugitive (unlike mine, made more so by pixelation :P) but you can also run the risk of your photo being rejected by the immigration department for not fulfiling certain criteria. I had mine taken at a photo shop – it was rejected because the photo shop did not tell me my hair was covering half my forehead. Actually I pointed it out to the man but he said it would pass muster – it didn’t.<\/p>\n

Tips for taking passport photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

To help you (and since the wounds are fresh) here are my tips for taking a passport photo for Malaysian citizens:-<\/p>\n