lolll wtf germany requires passport and ID pics to be taken digitally by a certified studio or in the self service machines within the Bürgerbüro now?!

So now instead of taking one at home with your proper camera and getting it printed for €1 at the dm, you have to pay €6 to take it day-of and risk looking like shit on your ID, or pay €20-25 (actual range in certified studios I'm seeing) for a biometric picture at a studio

@ave in spite of this rule existing, the Saarland state authorities still accepted a physical printed photo a few months ago

@q @ave i think it might be a new rule as of this year

@charlotte @ave from May 2025, I got my last ID in August

@q @ave oh huh

@charlotte @q yeah
https://stadt.muenchen.de/news/digitale-passbilder.html
May 2025 is the deadline

@charlotte @q @ave in some amts there was a transitional period when it turned out that the systems weren't fully upgraded to work with these new QR codes by May, or that the photo booths in amts were malfunctioning.
So in some places they continued accepting old photos for a few more months beyond May.

@IngaLovinde @charlotte @ave that would do it, classic Saarland

@q @charlotte @ave we've had something like this in Berlin too, for a couple of months.

Classic Digitalisierung.

> Die Bilder werden ausschließlich für das jeweilige Ausweisdokument verwendet.

I sure wonder what this means if I'm getting two documents at once, or to the usual "pic must be at most x years old" rule (do I need a new pic every time now?)

@ave you can also make it for 6€ in most dms