Passport Photos at Costco
*no longer available after February 14, 2021
Important Costco Photo Center Announcement (January 13, 2021)
...We are writing to inform you about the upcoming closure of the photo department at all Costco locations on Sunday, February 14, 2021.
Costco’s home movie video transfer, passport photo, photo restoration and ink cartridge refill services will no longer be available after February 14, 2021.
Online Passport Photo is Easy
1. Take a photo at home and upload with your order.
Take a photo at home in good natural light. We will fix the exposure, background, and will do necessary color correction.
2. We process your photo
We will crop the photo in right size for your country, and fix the exposure, background, and will do necessary color correction.
3.Your Passport Photos are ready!
Your passport photos are ready for printing.
Also, Costco didn't provide passport photos in 35 x 45mm size for UK, Germany, Canada, Mexico, EU -Schengen or Australia, nor 33x48 mm photos for China or 35 x 25mm photos for India Pan card at Costco stores. We can help you with passport or visa photos for any country - printed or digital photo. Many countries, like USA non-immigrant visa DS 160, Lottery visa, Canada Visa or India OCI ask for digital images. Costco wasn't useful for that. We can do all that for you, and we can also mail photos to your home, so you don't even need to enter a crowded Costco store, or wait in lines!
Customer Review:
>When I asked about the PAN Card picture for India at Costco, I got stares
back from the associate. I am glad that I found this service by chance
while Googling the dimensions. I ordered the prints very late in the evening
~ 900pm and picked up from Walmart at 1100am next day. Service is great
and I even got an honest suggestion to load a new digital image as earlier
one wasn't going to be good. Whole transaction was handled professionally
and efficiently with quick email updates. Thanks a lot!
Ashok May 15, 2014
Costco Passport
Photos compared to OnlinePassportPhoto.com passport photo service:
Pros:
- Costco offered 2 photos for $5 which was lower than onlinepassportphoto.com prices if you needed only two photos.
- The process was simple. Go to the store and get photos taken by a Costco photo center employee.
- You could get photos for the US Passport while you were shopping inside the store..
Cons:
Biggest problem: They no longer offer Passport photos at stores or online at costco.com.
- Costco requires membership so only Costco members can benefit from this. Costco membership is $60 for general membership and $120 for Executive membership.Costcos are only in large cities.
- If you are driving say 10 miles to go to Costco just to get your passport photos, you will be spending around $10 as per GSA per mile cost of $.50 cents by US Government.
- Besides your driving time, you will be expected to wait around an hour since you entered the store and leaving the store with finished photos.
- f you need more than 2 passport photos, onlinepassportphoto.com offers better prices- $8.95 for 6 US Passport photos and $9.95 for 12 USA Passport photos.
- Costco offers only 2x2 inch US Passport photos. OnlinePassportPhoto.com offers passport photos for almost any country (including the UK, Germany, India, China, Korea, Australia, Canada, etc.) and in any size. You can also order 35x45mm photos for UK, Australia, Europe, or 33x48mm photos for China Passport, or 35x35mm photos for Indian Passport.
For details about Costco Passport Photo service, click here.
Passport Photos at Fedex Office stores aka Kinko's: We are not much familiar with the Passport Pictures service at Kinko's. If you have any experiences, please let us know and we would like to share them for the benefit of our readers. Looks like their charges are on the higher end- $10 to $15 for 2 passport photos.Fedex Office/Kinko's Passport photo service details are available at:
http://www.fedex.com/us/office/passport-photos.html
