And you trust the 16 year old at CVS to know the regulations better than the white house protocol office?

For normal passports the endorsements would be on page 27, as normal passports are 28 pages. You can request a 52 page passport when you apply even for civilian passports, although that is uncommon. Diplomatic passports are only issued in the 52-page size.

The ratio applies to the photo before it is transferred to the passport. The photo is cropped to fit the passport which is why the ratio exists in the first place. This photo likely was at the extreme edge of the ratio requirement before it was cropped.

There is no such requirement in the US, although many places you can get photos taken seem to enforce that standard. The actual regulation says “neutral expression” which can include smiling to some degree (as long as it isn’t “excessive”).

Who said no teeth? The person taking the picture? I’m sure if you had just submitted some random photo with teeth the person at State Department processing would have been more forgiving and more in line with the actual regulations.

It validates that the rest of the email leaks are real, and not fabricated.

Blue civilian passports have a 10 year expiration for adults and a 5 year expiration for children under the age of 16. Red official passports and black diplomatic passports have a 5 year expiration for all eligible US Government employees and their family members.

The photo INTENTIONALLY does not fit in the box. It’s a security feature. Literally every passport photo does not fix the box. Do you even have a passport?

They are trying to use this picture to validate the status of the rest of the e-mail leaks as authentic.

This is a diplomatic passport, they are only valid for 5 years.

I think people are trying to use the passport photo to try to discredit the entire e-mail leak as falsified.

This is a diplomatic passport, as the black signature line and passport number starting with 9 indicate. Diplomatic passports are good for 5 years (or less, depending on a number of circumstances).

Absolutely 100% not true. Diplomatic passports are issued to any employee of the US Government that has an official diplomatic role that would enjoy protections under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. That includes State Department employees as well as attachés from other US Government…

Mostly. The only differences are that diplomatic passports have a black cover, instead of just the word “Passport” above the US seal it says “Diplomatic Passport,” and all of the secondary text (the words passport at the top of the photo page, the quotes at the top of each visa page, and the instructions at the back)…

If you really had all of this “government training” you’d probably know a lot more about passports than you do. The passport number beginning with 9, the fact that this is a 52 page passport book, and the black lettering for “passport passeport pasaporte” and “United States of America” at the top of the photo page…