USA Visa: No Glasses Allowed in Pictures!

Attention all who wear glasses! If you are travelling to the USA, you need to comply with newly-imposed guidelines (photo requirements) for your visa portrait picture.

From now on, when you apply for a visa, they will no longer accept any pictures where the applicant is wearing glasses. The only exceptions to this are people whose glasses actually cannot be removed for medical reasons. In such cases, this needs to be proven by a doctor.

In pictures with glasses, the frame of the glasses must not cover the eye. Also, there must not be any reflections or shadows that obscure the eye. In addition, your clothing in the visa picture needs to be ordinary day-to-day attire – not a uniform. You can consult the new rules here.