{"id":11398,"date":"2024-09-13T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2024-09-13T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:22:56","slug":"why-you-cant-smile-in-passport-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11398","title":{"rendered":"Why you can&#8217;t smile in passport photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered why you can&#8217;t smile in a passport photo? Or what the chip contains?<\/p>\n<p>All this and more is answered by Maria Robertson, deputy chief executive of service delivery and operations at the Department of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>If you smile, it changes the structure of your face, she tells RNZ&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Afternoons<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"block-item\">\n<div class=\"c-play-controller u-blocklink\" data-uuid=\"6ac5b05e-329a-49dc-b766-a01d4203ef09\">\n<div>\n<article class=\"relative w-full h-screen max-h-[calc(10rem*var(--base-multiplier))] min-h-[calc(6rem*var(--base-multiplier))] bg-off-white\">\n<div class=\"flex h-full\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-grow flex-col justify-between overflow-hidden p-3\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-between gap-2\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center gap-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ml-auto flex items-center gap-2 text-black\">&#8220;It&#8217;s more about your bone structure in your face. When you smile, you smile differently every time and when you&#8217;re at rest, you&#8217;re basically at rest.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The imagery for facial biometric match relied on 17 different points on your face, so resting face worked better, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Most rejected passport applications were because of the photos, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was truly astonished at some of the photos people were sending in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One woman took a selfie on a plane, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the phone sitting on her lap, looking up towards her chin and her face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was rejected, and she replaces it with a pic of her head-to-toe standing on the bow of a yacht.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--qqFaOWZH--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1726124591\/4PDPZWD_57408310_l_normal_none_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Closeup of woman's face with digital pattern\" width=\"1050\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">There&#8217;s a good reason why you can&#8217;t smile in passport photos.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Denis Ismagilov \/ 123rf<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The chip contained all the information about you that was in the physical document, she said, but the physical part was also pretty complex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hard page in your passport has seven layers of polycarbonate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sealed in there is an antennae, a copper wire, when you put the passport into the machine at the border that puts power into the passport, links up the antennae and sends that data to an international passport database that checks its validity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered why you can&#8217;t smile in a passport photo? 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If you smile, it changes the structure of your face, she tells RNZ&#8217;s\u00a0Afternoons. &#8220;It&#8217;s more about your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11400,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions\/11400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}