Passport Photo in İstanbul: 39 Districts, One Frame, At Your Door Next Day

How to get a passport photo in İstanbul (2026)

Going to the photographer in your district is no longer the only way to get a passport photo in İstanbul: a frame shot at home on your phone is checked by AI against the NVİ biometric photo rules, a passing frame is cropped to the 50×60 mm ID ratio with a whitened background and the digital file downloads instantly. Those who want prints order the 10×15 sheet; the sheet reaches the address the next day by company vehicle in 22 European-side districts and by contracted cargo in the other 17. This page gathers that split, the district population office phone and the district page link for each of the 39 districts in one table.

The scale of the city scales the passport photo business too: 39 district population directorates, dozens of passport and driving licence application points, thousands of appointments a day. The photo rule is the same in all of them — 50×60 mm for the ID card photo, white or light-grey background, neutral expression, newer than six months. The driving licence and passport use the same size, so one frame covers three documents. Appointments are booked at randevu.nvi.gov.tr; the district offices' switchboard numbers are published on the NVİ İstanbul contact page and the table below takes them from there.

For shooting technique the phone passport photo guide is enough: flat light facing a window, plain wall, one metre at eye level. The AI reports framing, head angle, expression, shadow and background separately; a failing item is written with a fix suggestion. The analysis is free and the payment step does not open until the frame passes. The biometric photo guide explains the logic behind the rules and the rejection reasons page the most common reasons a photo is turned back.

39 districts: which get courier, which get cargo?

The split in the table shows two delivery routes. **Company vehicle** covers 22 districts on İstanbul's European side and brings a print order placed before the cut-off to the address the next day; coverage is per district and does not change by neighbourhood. **Cargo** goes to the remaining 17 districts — all of the Asian side plus Büyükçekmece, Çatalca and Silivri on the European side — with a contracted carrier and a tracking number sent by e-mail. The digital file is the same in every district: it downloads the moment the analysis passes.

Cut-off time, courier fee, cargo fee and free-shipping threshold are not hard-coded on this page; the delivery box at the top of each district page reads these values from live settings and the same values appear in the order step. The right option opens the moment İstanbul and a district are chosen in the wizard's address step — the order button on a district page brings the district preselected. If coverage changes (a district is added), the order step is updated first, then this table.

European side: the 22 districts with next-day company delivery

The company vehicle zone covers Arnavutköy, Avcılar, Bağcılar, Bahçelievler, Bakırköy, Başakşehir, Bayrampaşa, Beşiktaş, Beylikdüzü, Beyoğlu, Esenler, Esenyurt, Eyüpsultan, Fatih, Gaziosmanpaşa, Güngören, Kağıthane, Küçükçekmece, Sarıyer, Sultangazi, Şişli and Zeytinburnu. In these districts a print order placed before the cut-off arrives the next working day, one placed after it the day after; the district page counts down to the cut-off live. Coverage is the whole district — from Sarıyer's Bosphorus villages to Arnavutköy's Hadımköy side, from Bakırköy's Yeşilköy shore to Sultangazi's Habipler, it all counts as one zone.

On the European side Büyükçekmece, Çatalca and Silivri are outside the company vehicle zone and receive by cargo; all three are large districts at the western edge of the city. If your address is inside their neighbours Beylikdüzü, Esenyurt or Arnavutköy (a workplace, a relative's address) the sheet reaches that address by company vehicle — just change the district in the wizard.

Asian side: the 14 districts served by cargo

The 14 districts of the Asian side — Adalar, Ataşehir, Beykoz, Çekmeköy, Kadıköy, Kartal, Maltepe, Pendik, Sancaktepe, Sultanbeyli, Şile, Tuzla, Ümraniye and Üsküdar — receive the print sheet by contracted cargo. The sheet is handed to the carrier on the working day after order confirmation, delivery within İstanbul mostly takes one to two working days and the tracking number arrives by e-mail. Because the digital file is ready at order time, procedures done through e-Devlet do not wait for the print; if you will attend the appointment with the print sheet, ordering a few days ahead is enough.

On the Asian side the district offices work with 0216 switchboards; in Adalar the office is on Büyükada and cargo reaches the island via the ferry connection. In busy districts such as Kadıköy, Üsküdar and Ümraniye the appointment quota fills fast; preparing the frame before the appointment and downloading the digital file makes more of a difference there. Every district page carries the population office switchboard, the district governorate site and the neighbouring district links.

How much does a passport photo cost in İstanbul? (2026)

The price does not vary by district: the digital file and the optional 10×15 print sheet cost the same in every İstanbul district and are shown live in this page's product box; no fixed number is written into the text. The comparison with a district photographer, the copies-per-sheet logic and the free-shipping threshold are explained in the passport photo prices guide. The delivery item depends on the district: the courier fee in the company vehicle zone, the cargo fee elsewhere — both read live in the delivery box on the district page.

When a second person is added to the same order the delivery fee is charged once; for a family's ID appointment that matters. If the photo fails there is no extra charge for reshooting, because the analysis happens before payment. The biometric vs passport photo difference page explains why an old-style frame is rejected and the validity guide the six-month rule.

Which size for which document?

The district does not matter, the document does: ID card, driving licence and passport want 50×60 mm; Schengen and most visas 35×45 mm. When the document is chosen in the wizard the size comes automatically; two sizes can be produced from the same frame. The comparison of all sizes is in the passport photo sizes table, the whole visa line in the visa photo guide.