Why is it that you can't smile on your passport photograph?

Question

Why is it that you can't smile on your passport photograph?

Answer 1

I always smile for passport photos, no ones ever told me otherwise.

Answer 2

u can if u can smile at that moment

Answer 3

Probably because of your teeth color !!!

Answer 4

To capture your facial feature as much as possible.

Answer 5

it is not against the law to smile on your passport photographs,

i certainly do smile on mine. it has not created any sort of problems ......why should it?

Answer 6

Because they like a natural expression (you don't go through half a dozen checkpoints at the airport grinning like crazy) and it's easier to do a check between the two.

Also it throws off the biometrics. They measure the face and gaps between areas (eg sides of the face, between the eyes, between nose and lip, angles) and your face. If the passport photo is off then the biometrics recorded will be off as well and it will be harder to verify.

*grins* Besides when you smile you get more wrinkles. Passport officers like your pictures to look as wrinkle free as possible.

Answer 7

For your information facial expression changes your true face value.