Editorial Standards and Corrections Policy

Who writes the content

All passport and visa photo specifications, blog posts, and country guides on IDPhotoSnap are written and reviewed by Elena, the founder and sole operator. There is no contributor network. Every claim is something I have personally verified against an official source, or I have marked it as derived from a secondary source with attribution.

Where the specifications come from

Every country photo spec on this site is anchored to one or more of these source types, in this order of preference:

1. Official issuing-authority page (ministry, embassy, consulate, immigration portal).
2. Government portal upload constraints (DS-160, Saudi Enjaz, India Sarathi, China COVA, Bangladesh BMET, K-ETA, ImmiAccount, Parivahan, etc.) verified by attempting an actual upload, not just reading the documentation.
3. ICAO 9303 specification for biometric standards that countries reference rather than restate.
4. Embassy or consulate FAQ pages where the issuing authority does not publish on the web directly.

Marketing copy from competitor passport photo services is never used as a source. Country counts and spec lists from those services are frequently wrong and we have documented examples on our comparison guide.

Methodology for blog posts

Newsjacking posts (USCIS pivot, DV-2027 update, Bulgaria DNV launch, etc.) are written within 7 days of the policy change and cite the original government memorandum or release. Each fact has a verification step: the source URL is opened, the wording is checked, and any claim that cannot be confirmed in the primary source is removed.

Evergreen posts (size guides, rejection-reason explainers) are revisited every 6 months and the date in the post is updated only if the underlying facts are re-verified. If a year passes with no edit, the post is flagged for review or removal.

Corrections policy

If you find an error, email elena@idphotosnap.com with the URL and the source you believe is correct. Confirmed errors are fixed within 48 hours and the change is noted in the page commit history on our open-data repository. The dataset that powers country pages is published openly so anyone can audit it.

Significant content corrections (changed numeric spec, removed claim) are stamped in the post body with a line such as "Updated YYYY-MM-DD: corrected X based on official source Y".

Conflicts of interest and business model

IDPhotoSnap is a free browser-based tool. It does not charge for photo generation, does not display ads, does not run a subscription, and does not sell user data. The tool processes every photo entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. No photo is ever uploaded to a server.

Comparison posts that mention competing services are written without affiliate relationships. If we ever add a paid recommendation, it will be labeled "Sponsored" or "Affiliate" at the top of the post, not buried at the bottom.

AI editing rules we follow on our own content

Posts about the 2026 US AI-edit rule are written specifically to clarify what is and is not banned. The same rules apply to how we run the tool itself: background replacement and geometric cropping are permitted, AI facial editing is not, and we do not apply skin smoothing or beauty filters at any stage.

Contact

Corrections, source disputes, partnership questions, and press inquiries: elena@idphotosnap.com. I read every email.