With 167 stores across Australia, Officeworks Ltd. is the country’s largest provider of office supplies. One of the services they provide is passport photos, however, despite the company’s promise to deliver professional pictures that are compliant with all the requirements, their photos often get rejected. Why was your Officeworks passport photo rejected and how to fix that issue? We will provide answers to both these questions in this post, so stick around!
Potential reasons behind your Officeworks’ passport photo rejection
The cost of passport pics at Officeworks is $16.95. You can either have them taken on-site or upload digital images from a USB, Dropbox, Google Drive, phone, PrintMe, or OneDrive, and print them at the store’s photo kiosk.
However, according to some customer reviews, the Australian Passport Office sometimes rejects passport photos taken at Officeworks. Upon delving deeper into this topic, we have found that the most common reasons behind these passport photos not being accepted are:
- incorrect placement of the head;
- incorrect head size (it should be between 32mm and 36mm, or 1.25″ and 1.41″);
- shadows.
It’s important to make sure that the above parameters as well as all the other requirements for Australian passport photos are met because otherwise, not only the photos but your entire passport application may be at risk of rejection.
Apart from frequent passport photo rejections, customers have also reported long waiting times to have their photos taken and the passport photo services at Officeworks being too expensive. But should you give up completely on Officeworks for your passport photos or is there a way to get fully compliant pictures printed at one of their store locations?
In the next paragraph, we will share with you a tip on how to take passport photos correctly and get them printed at Officeworks not only for cheaper but also with 100% compliance with all the requirements.
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Australian passport photo printing at Officeworks
So, how to get a compliant passport photo from Officeworks? Preparing a ready passport photo template is the answer here. It’s our recommendation based on tons and tons of positive reviews from our satisfied customers around the world (including those who submitted photos for their Australian passports).
With Passport Photo Online, you can prepare a 4″ x 6″ passport photo template that you can take to your nearest Officeworks store for printing. You can print the template on glossy paper as a 4″ x 6″ print that will include 4 (four) passport photos. This means that you will be using Officeworks services only for printing, and we will ensure 100% compliance with the passport photo standards set forth by the government of Australia.
A 4″ x 6″ print will cost you $0.15 at Officeworks (and not a whopping price of $16.95!) and you won’t have to wait in line to have your photos taken – just go to the kiosk and voila, you’ll be able to have your pictures printed in just a few minutes.
Our photo app features a sensitive built-in AI system that carefully scans each image for any discrepancies with the official requirements – should there be any, you will be notified immediately and asked to retake your photo at no additional cost (there is an unlimited amount of takes, so you can just snap away!). The AI system is also backed by human experts who also make sure that your photo meets the official requirements. The background is replaced with a plain white one and the photo gets cropped and adjusted to the correct size.
You can take your own photo, upload it to our app or website, and watch it get transformed into a perfect, 100% compliant photo for your Australian passport. Don’t believe us? Try it – if the Australian Passport Office rejects your photo, we will reimburse you twice the amount you paid. Passport Photo Online has been trusted by over a million users worldwide, producing numerous passport, visa, and ID photos.
Officeworks passport photos rejected: FAQ
Here you will find a couple of frequently asked questions regarding Officeworks and Australian passport photo rejection.
Does Officeworks do passport photos?
How to print passport photos at Officeworks?
How often do Australian passport photos get rejected?
Officeworks passport photo rejected – conclusion
While Officeworks may not always produce photographs that will be accepted by the passport office, that doesn’t mean you have to give up on their services altogether. You can take your own photos and prepare a 4″ x 6″ passport photo template to take to your nearest Officeworks store to have it printed there for just $0.15.
Try Passport Photo Online – an app that boasts positive reviews from customers all over the world and recognition by such names as National Geographic, Glamour, Yahoo!, and Forbes – and never deal with rejected passport photos ever again.
Sources
- [1] https://www.officeworks.com.au/print-copy/info/pcc-passport-and-id-photos
- [2] https://www.passports.gov.au/getting-passport-how-it-works/
Magda is an art & travel expert who is passionate about all things late-Victorian, history, languages, casa museos, Spain, and food illustration. She is a specialist in the field of biometric photography. Magda also loves reading, creative writing, and hanging out with her three cats.
