Switzerland National Visa (D) photo guide

Guide policy

The Requirement record is the source of truth; unspecified values are not filled in.

• The purpose-specific checklists linked from the Swiss FDFA Japan national visa documents page each require "colored passport photos (good quality, white background)". The colour, white background, and good-quality requirements are verbatim in all three checklists (Student / Work / Family Reunion).
• The required count differs by purpose (Student: 2 / Work: 1 / Family Reunion: 2). The values are kept per purpose and not flattened; follow the count in the checklist for your purpose.
• The authority publishes no photo dimensions in millimetres. None of the three checklists, the documents page, or the SEM national visa application form states a numeric size, and the Photograph quality section of the documents page only delegates to the ICAO MRTD Photo Guidelines. This page keeps the size unregistered and does not convert the ICAO reference into numbers. 35×45 mm is the adopted value of the separate Schengen C (short-stay) procedure, not a National Visa requirement.