About SkipTheBooth

SkipTheBooth turns a phone photo into one that meets the rules for a UK passport, driving licence or visa. It's free, needs no sign-up and never uploads your photo.

Why we made it

Photo booths cost £7 to £10. Most online tools upload your face to their servers, add watermarks or charge for the download. SkipTheBooth runs entirely in your browser. It checks your photo against the published rules before you apply, so fewer applications get rejected.

How we keep it accurate

• Every document's rules link to the official page they come from.
• We check the rules regularly. Each page shows the date of the last check.
• We never "fix" photos in ways the rules forbid. For example, UK passport photos must not be digitally altered, so we only crop and resize them.

Contact

Found a rule that's out of date, or a photo the checker got wrong? Please tell us so we can fix it for everyone.

Open-source software

Face detection uses Google's MediaPipe, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The site is built with Astro, under the MIT License.