NEW GUIDELINES FOR ISSUING PASSPORTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Minister of External Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee informed the Lok Sabha today in a reply to a Starred question that a number of decisions have been taken to simplify the Passport Issuance Procedures with effect from 23 December 2006.<\/p>\n
These guidelines have made the issuance of passports simpler and speedier for the passport applicants. The average time taken for issuing a passport is now 30 days subject to completion of requisite formalities.<\/p>\n
Salient features of the new scheme are as under:<\/p>\n
1 Revised Rules relating to issue\/reissue of passports<\/p>\n
Presently fresh passports are issued under Normal and Tatkal categories \u2013 (1) Under first category, passports are issued on receipt of clear police verification reports and (2) Under the Tatkal scheme, a passport valid for 10 years is issued on the basis of a Verification Certificate (VC) obtained from the authorities indicated in para 2(B) and on payment of additional fee of Rs. 1500\/- in case the applicants desire to have the passports in 1-7 days (as opposed to the earlier slab of 1-10 days) and additional fee of Rs. 1000\/- in case the applicant desires to have the passport in 8-14 days (as opposed to the earlier time slab of 11-20 days).<\/p>\n
Under the Tatkal scheme, passports are issued on post-police verification basis OR on submission of (i) three documents from the list of following 14 documents given at 2(A), provided one of the three documents is a photo identity document and at least one of the three is amongst the documents indicated at (a) to (i) below, and (ii) a standard affidavit duly attested by a Notary:<\/p>\n
2(A) List of 14 documents:<\/p>\n
a) Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}