You want your passport photo to match what your face would look like if people had been yelling at you about how they don't think the passport photo matches your face and that you're going to be deported / be imprisoned / have something happen that is unexpected and disagreeable to you. If the passport photo represents you when you're smiling, you might not be able to replicate that type of face when you would most want to be recognized.
What causes some of these posted images to show up as an external link versus just being a photo I can click? I use the web UI with Lemmy.zip if that makes a difference. Just weird that like 5% of meme/images posted are a link that doesn't open in a new tab or an image that just expands when I click the button.
The original source of this image was probably from obywatel.gov.pl (other images and https://www.gov.pl/web/usa-en/passport-for-an-adult reference it), but that seems to always redirect to https://www.gov.pl/ now.
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Nobody should be smiling! We have explicitly made it fucking miserable to be here, don't pretend like you enjoy it!
I'm surprised this isn't usa doing this...
That explains it then, I haven't had a passport photo since 2004
https://www.gov.pl/web/usa-en/consular-passport-outreach-in-dallas-tx
To be fair that is the most likely face to have when going through airport security and customs
Funny but to be fair sounds like a bad translation and it should be neutral rather than natural.
You want your passport photo to match what your face would look like if people had been yelling at you about how they don't think the passport photo matches your face and that you're going to be deported / be imprisoned / have something happen that is unexpected and disagreeable to you. If the passport photo represents you when you're smiling, you might not be able to replicate that type of face when you would most want to be recognized.
one wonders why we bother with passports for people who can grow a beard
Do you mean "unnatural facial hair"?
My in-laws are from poland. I'm pretty sure smiles physically hurt them.
I like to call them well earned smiles 😁
Completely off topic, so apologies. I'm sorry.
What causes some of these posted images to show up as an external link versus just being a photo I can click? I use the web UI with Lemmy.zip if that makes a difference. Just weird that like 5% of meme/images posted are a link that doesn't open in a new tab or an image that just expands when I click the button.
The original source of this image was probably from
obywatel.gov.pl(other images and https://www.gov.pl/web/usa-en/passport-for-an-adult reference it), but that seems to always redirect tohttps://www.gov.pl/now.The same images are available from https://www.gov.pl/web/usa-en/consular-passport-outreach-in-dallas-tx right now.
Every time I take picture for my I, I try to smile a bit, yet I look like a criminal in the end lol.