USCIS online filing: make your photo, signature and documents fit
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services rejects uploads that break its rules. Drop your files here: each is cropped, resized and compressed to the rules below, checked, and named. Nothing is uploaded; it runs on your device.
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What USCIS online filing asks for
| File | Format | Size | Pixels | And |
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| Photograph | JPG | up to 12 MB |
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| Evidence for the form | PDF / JPG | up to 12 MB |
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Some forms also take TIF or TIFF files; a form that asks for passport-style photographs takes them as scans or phone pictures.
Where these rules come from
Read on October 27, 2026 from USCIS: tips for filing forms online (Tips for filing forms online: uploading evidence (page reviewed 7 October 2026)) (published October 7, 2026)
Portals change their rules without notice. If USCIS online filing asks for something else now, tell us and the page is corrected within a day. Report a change
Frequently asked questions
- Why did USCIS online filing reject my photo?
- Almost always the file: a format other than JPG, a size outside the window, or the wrong pixel dimensions. The table above lists what United States Citizenship and Immigration Services states; the tool makes your file meet every line it can check and tells you which it cannot.
- Does my file leave my phone?
- No. The rules come with the page, and the cropping, resizing, compressing and checking run in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to us.
- The portal asks for a minimum size and my file is smaller. What happens?
- The picture is encoded sharper first. If it is still under the minimum, a comment that every reader skips is added inside the file so that it reaches the minimum; the picture itself does not change.
- Can you fix a blurred photo or a dark background?
- No. Software can crop, resize and compress; what the picture shows is for the camera. The card under each file names what USCIS online filing asks of the picture itself.