Spanish Driving licence Photo

[DinnoDaze]

Apologies for the daft question...I had photos done for my Residencia application then found they were not needed. The photographs show me smiling. Does anyone know if there is a requirement for a driving licence photo to show face not smiling? I don't want to go all the way to Granada and be told the photo isn't acceptable

[costakid]

I would get them done again. Passports and licences don't allow smiling etc

[El Cid]

Licences are OK. My last two were definitely smiling pictures, taken by the guy at the test centre.

Passports are more critical as they are used for facial recognition at passport control. Licences do not need that.

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[alpineSi]

I would get them done again. Passports and licences don't allow smiling etc

Not true for driving licences in Spain. Girlfriend was even told to smile by woman taking it!

[Wicksey]

Make sure they are the correct size. They are now tiny, 32x26mm. The shop that did my OH's for his licence kept saying he knew how to do them when we said about the size, but they were rejected by Trafico and we had to go back to have them resized.

[costakid]

surprises me that. In the UK they drag your passport photo off the .gov site and use it for your licence so defo no smiling.

[alpineSi]

Yep, but a good example of not assuming everyone follows UK standards.. I was smiling on my old Irish passport too; they only changed that to no smiling in the last decade (I assume to meet biometric face scanning standards).

[markwilding]

Camera shops that take passport photos know exactly what is required. The really good ones will also have examples of the requirements of different countries because they can vary. If not, when you want one taken for a UK passport, it might get rejected if you send one that conforms to a Spanish rules, which happened to me.

[Wicksey]

Camera shops that take passport photos know exactly what is required.

Our one didn't when it came to the photos for the driving licence. That wasted a week or two as it had all been sent to Trafico by our gestoria only to be rejected. I guess it's something fairly recent as it was the first lot they'd had sent back to be redone.