How to Apply for a Passport:
1. Get the Passport Application Form: One can apply for Passport through Online Registration.Apart from this applicant can submit directly in the respective passport office/ DPCs/Speed post centers, get the relevant application form from here.
2. How to fill the Form: The Passport Application Form is Machine Readable. Please follow the instructions as follows:
* Use capital letters only. Particulars given in the form will be printed in the passport. Therefore, please be careful in filling up the form and avoid any mistakes.
* Use black/blue ball pen only
* Do not fill the form with pencils or ink-pen.
* While filling up the boxes, kindly leave one box blank after each completed word.
* Write clearly within the box without touching the boundaries.
* Adjust the information to fit within the number of given boxes.
* Do not write anything outside the box. Avoid over-writing
* Incomplete application will not be accepted.
Columnwise Guidelines for filling the application form can be had from here.
Note: All original documents are to be shown at the time of submission of the passport application form. With the Original Passport Application Form, self-attested copies of all required documents need to be attached. Illiterate applicants should put only thumb impression in the box meant for thumb impression/signature. In case an applicant has stayed at more than one address during the last one year, he/she should furnish two additional photocopies of the PP form for each additional place of stay.
3. Where to Apply : For Online Registration, the applicant has to submit the print outs of the application form along with required documents to the respective passport office in the appointment date and time printed. Apart from this Passport Applications can be submitted at
1. The counter of the Passport office
2. The Speed Post centers
3. District Passport Cells
4. Passport Collection Centers
An application for a passport may be submitted personally OR through a representative carrying an authority letter.
4. Urgent Passport:Tatkaal Scheme is available in case if applicant needs the passport urgently.
5. Fee Structure: Refer Fee Structure below for the fees to be submitted.
6. Check List: Refer Check List below for the required documents to be submitted along with the application form.
CHECK LIST...
While applying for a fresh passport attach two copies of the following documents:
(a)Proof of address (attach one of the following):
Applicant’s ration card, certificate from Employer of reputed companies on letter head, water /telephone /electricity bill/statement of running bank account/Income Tax Assessment Order /Election Commission ID card, Gas connection Bill, Spouse’s passport copy, parent’s passport copy in case of minors. (NOTE: If any applicant submits only ration card as proof of address, it should be accompanied by one more proof of address out of the above categories).
(bProof of Date of Birth (attach one of the following):
Birth certificate issued by a Municipal Authority or district office of the Registrar of Births & Deaths;
Date of birth certificate from the school last attended by the applicant or any other recognized educational institution; or an Affidavit sworn before a Magistrate/Notary stating date/place of birth as per the specimen in ANNEXURE ‘A’ by illiterate or semi-illiterate applicants.
N.B.: In the case of applicants born on or after 26.01.89, only Birth Certificate issued by the Municipal Authority or the Office of the Registrar of Births & Deaths is acceptable.
(cCitizenship Document if applicant is a citizen of India by Registration or Naturalization.
(d)Government/Public Sector/Statutory body employees should submit “Identity Certificate” in original (ANNEXURE B) along with Standard Affidavit Annexure I.
(e)If the applicant is eligible for “ECNR” attach attested copy of supporting document (see COLUMN 15 of the INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR FILLING UP THE APPLICATION FORM).
(f)If the applicant was repatriated at Government cost, enclose documents to show that the expenditure, if any, incurred by the Government of India on his/her repatriation has been fully refunded to the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs.
(g)If the applicant was ever deported to India, give details of Emergency Certificate/Passport.
FEE STRUCTURE.....
1.Fresh Passport (36 pages) of 10 years validity
(including minors between 15 to 18 years of age, who wish to get a 10 years full validity passport)
---Rs 1,000/-
2.Fresh Passport (60 pages) of 10 years validity
---Rs. 1,500/-
3.Fresh Passport for Minors (below 18 years of Age) of 5 years validity or till the minor attains the age of 18 which ever is earlier.
---Rs 600/-
4.Duplicate Passport (36 pages) in lieu of lost, damaged or stolen passport
---Rs. 2500/-
5.Duplicate Passport (60 pages) in lieu of lost, damaged or stolen passport
---Rs. 3000/-
6.Police Clearance Certificate/ ECNR/Additional Endorsements
---Rs.300/-
7.In case of Change of Address, Name, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Appearance, Spouse Name, Name of Parents/Legal Guardian
---Rs.1000/- [Fresh passport booklet will be issued]
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