or whatever filter makes your photo look the passport-iest.) When I uploaded it to the passport site, I let the crop tool do ...

US border control has ... the country certificate of an e-Passport, the government agency does verify the data contained within the chip and the passport photo page that is placed into the scanner.

But why exactly aren’t people allowed to smile in their passport photos the way we do in other pictures? The answer has to do with technology and international security. The United States doesn ...