The bio page is the one part of your passport most people photograph badly on the first try, usually because of glare or a cropped edge. Getting the Russia eVisa passport scan requirement right just means laying the document flat under even light, shooting straight down with a phone or scanner, and keeping every corner inside the frame, including the two printed lines of the machine-readable zone along the bottom.
Skipping the flash matters more than people expect, especially with laminated pages that catch reflections easily. A passport also needs at least six months of validity left counting from the application date, not the travel date, and if the bio page is worn, faded, or otherwise hard to read, that scan simply won’t pass review no matter how carefully it’s framed. Before uploading, a quick zoom-in check confirms whether the text and photo are sharp enough to move forward.
