Passport Office

It might happen that while traveling your luggage may get lost or stolen and with your luggage, you may also end up loosing your Passport. If you are in another country and you end up losing or misplacing your passport, then there is no reason to panic. You need to visit the Local police station of that city. Tell them about the loss of the passport. You need to lodge an FIR with the police. Take multiple copies of the FIR that you had lodged with the police. The next step will be to meet the consular and go to his office.

The Consular may not necessarily be in the city which you are currently in and hence you may have to travel to the city where the Consular is located. Once you meet him, show him the documents with you like the Visa, the Air tickets, Identification proof etc. After filling up a form and submitting the fees for getting an additional passport, the new passport will be issued. You will also have to submit a copy of the FIR that you had lost with the police when the passport had been stolen or misplaced by you.

Rs. 2500 is the fees required to be paid while issuing a New passport of 36 pages instead of the old one and Rs. 3000 is the fees required to be paid if issuing a new passport of 60 pages. While traveling it is always advisable to carry Xerox copies of the Passport or the Visa in a different place than the one where the true copies are kept. So that if one of them gets lost, the other may still be there as a source of back up. Whenever traveling it is imperative to take good care of the passport and other documents if you want to avoid the hassles when it gets stolen or lost.

The fee to buy the application for Minors is Rs. 600 for a duration of five years. A Minor Is any one below the age of 15. It is important to get a passport issued even for Minors or infants as many countries may not grant the Visa if there is no passport. Most of the European countries require even a tiny infant to carry a Passport with him/her and he cannot just travel on the passport of any of his/her parents.

In the case of the Minors, you need to buy the application form and fill up all the necessary information and data. The necessary proof of the address, date of birth needs to be submitted with the Application form. Seven identical photographs which may be black and white or coloured are also required with the form. Self attested photo copies of the passport of the parents of the minor or the local guardians is required to be submitted with the Application. If the Minor has local guardians then an Affidavit is also required to be submitted. In the case of separate or divorced parents an affidavit is again required.

If one of the parents is unable to get the consent of the other parent then too, the passport can be made if an affidavit duly signed is presented with the application form of the minor in question. If at all, only one parent gives the consent to take the minor outside then the actual presence of the minor may be required in order to be certain that the child is being taken of his own free will and then only the passport will be granted.

Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu and is located at a very strategic position in the South. Chennai was earlier the princely state of Tamil Nadu. The Regional passport office located in Chennai was formed in the year 1955 with four other passport offices across the length and breadth of the country. It was built at George Town. But in the year 2006, the venue was shifted to its new address in the year 1966 which is Shastri Bhavan located at 26, Haddows Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600 006.

The districts that fall under the jurisdiction of the Regional passport office at Chennai are CHENNAI CITY, COIMBATORE, CUDDALORE, DHARMAPURI, ERODE, KANCHEEPURAM , KARAIKKAL, KRISHNAGIRI , NAMAKKAL , NILGIRIS , PONDICHERRY, SALEM , THIRUVALLUR , THIRUVANNAMALAI , VILLUPURAM  and VELLORE. Hence the passport office is responsible or issuing the passport to everyone who has an address in any of the above mentioned districts.

The passport office in Chennai is open on all days from Monday to Friday and closed on the weekends on Saturday and Sunday. The passport office also remains closed on public and Government holidays every year. The Regional passport office timings are 10 am to 5.30 pm everyday though the submission of application forms is from 10 am to 3.30 pm with a break from 1 to 2 pm everyday.

The Regional passport officer can be contacted on the following phone numbers 91-44-28203591, 28203593, 28203594 and the fax number 91-44-28252767. Any query regarding the application process can also be mailed to the following e mail address rpo.chennai@mea.gov.in.

Any other information regarding the sale or the submission of the passport form in Chennai can be found on the following web site http://passport.tn.nic.in/

Kolkatta is the capital of West Bengal and is located on the Eastern Coast of India. Kolkatta was formerly known as Calcutta and was once a capital of India long before Delhi was given that honour. The Regional passport office at Kolkatta was started in 1955 along with four other passport offices which were set up in the country. The Regional passport office located in Kolkatta can be found on the following address, 4, Brabourne Road, Kolkata 700-001.

The passport office in Kolkatta is responsible for issuing passports to all the citizens of Kolkatta as well as twenty other districts of West Bengal namely Howrah, Nadia, Hooghly, Burdwan, 24-paragana (N), 24-paragana (S), Birbhum, Bankura, Maldah, Murshidabad, Purulia, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Coochbihar, Dinajpur (N), Dinajpur (S). It also caters to citizens of some districts of  Sikkim, Tripura, Medinipur (E), Medinipur (W).

The passport office in Kolkatta is open on all days from Monday to Friday and closed on the weekends on Saturday and Sunday. The passport office also remains closed on public and Government holidays every year. The Regional passport office timings are 10 am to 5.30 pm everyday though the submission of application forms is from 10 am to 1.30 pm.

Shri R.Chattopadhyay, the Assistant Passport Officer Acting RPO can be contacted at the following numbers 033 2235-2222 and he can be reached by fax on 033 2225-4762. He can be contacted on mail by rpo.kolkata@mea.gov.in.
Any tele-enquiries can be made on: 033 2221-8671/72/73/74
The website for any information or queries is http://passport.gov.in/kolkatta.htm.

Regarding any complaints or grievances, Mr Chattopadhyay could be contacted on the number 033-2234 1212 and the Fax: 033- 2225 4762.

The Regional passport office in Bangalore, which is the capital of the state of Karnataka is located at the following address Regional Passport Office, 8th Block, 80 Feet Road, Koramangala, Bangalore -560095.

This regional passport office has been functional for the last thirty years from 1978. It wasn’t one of the five passport offices which were set up in 1954 but then due to the immense requirement it had to be opened in 1978. The passport office caters to all residents from Bangalore and also to all people from all the districts of the state of Karnataka. So any person who has a registered address in the state of Karnataka can get a passport issued in his/her name.

The passport office is open on all five days of the week from Monday to Friday but is closed on the weekend days of Saturday and Sunday. And the office is also shut on all public and government holidays. The applications can be submitted on all working days through out the week from 9.30 am to 12.00 noon. The appointments to meet the officers are also given are also given at the same time through out the day.  For the submission of applications for all the people who have filled the application forms online, the timings are from 2.30 to 5.30 pm every working day on prior appointments.

For any complaints or grievances, the following persons may be contacted. Mr. R.RAVINDRA is the Regional Passport Officer and the Chief Grievances Officer. He may be contacted on the following Fax No: 080-25706124. The assistant passport officer is Mr. Ramesh Bhat and he could be contacted on the Fax No. : 25706124 and also on a line dedicated for grievances Tel:  25706100.

The website of the Regional passport office located in Bangalore is http://nitpu2.kar.nic.in/passport/index.htm  and may have any other piece of information that you may be looking for.

Delhi is the National capital of the country and also home to the President and the Prime Minister of the country. The Regional passport office in Delhi was one of the first to be started in India in the year 1954 just seven years after Independence. The address of the passport office in Delhi is Trikoot – 3, HUDCO Building, Bhikaji Camaji Place, New Delhi.

The passport office in the national capital is open on all days from Monday to Friday and closed on the weekends on Saturday and Sunday. The passport office also remains closed on public and Government holidays every year. The Regional passport office timings are 9.30 am to 6.00 pm everyday though the submission of application forms is from 10 am to 2.30 pm. The passport office officers though are open to the public only on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The passport office in Delhi caters to all the citizens of Delhi and also to the citizens of the following eight districts of the neighbouring state of Haryana, Gurgaon, Rewari, Faridabad, Nuh, Jajjar, Rohtak, Sonepat, Mohindergarh and Rewari.

In order to contact the passport office in Delhi the following Fax numbers can be used, Fax: 011-26165870/ 26161783. Through E-mail the required information can be sought by mailing the address, rpo.delhi@mea.gov.in. Tele enquiries can be made at the number 011-26187075. The web site for reference is http://passport.gov.in/delhi.html.

Any complaints regarding the processing of the application form or any other general complaints can be made on the number, 011-26187075 and the fax numbers 011-26165870/ 26161783. An e mail in this regard can also be sent to rpo.delhi@mea.gov.in. The complaints can address the current Regional Passport office officer Mr. V.Mahalingam.

Mumbai being the financial as well as the Industrial capital of the Country plays home to thousands of people who have to travel abroad for official as well as leisure purposes. Mumbai, is also the capital of the state of Maharashtra and hence the passport office here is highly important.

The Regional passport office in Mumbai is located in southern Mumbai in the area of Worli. The address of the passport office is 216, Manish Commercial Centre, Dr. Annie Besant Road , Worli with Pincode 400 030. The centre for submission of the applications is at a five minute drive from the main regional office and is located at Bengal Chemical Bhavan, Prabhadevi, Mumbai-400 025. This centre for submission of the applications is known as the The Passport Office Annex.

The passport office is open five days a week from Monday to Friday and is not open at the weekends on Saturday and Sunday. The Passport office will also be shut on Government and public holidays being observed in the state. The regional office at Mumbai covers parts of Mumbai and Greater Mumbai. The other districts falling under its jurisdiction are the Districts of Aurangabad,  Beed, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg and the Union Territory of  Daman & Silvassa also fall under the Regional passport office based in Mumbai.

The submission of application forms is on till 2.30 pm every working day at the Passport Annex office in Prabhadevi and the sale of forms is open till about 1.30 pm every working day.

The contact numbers are Tel: 022- 24931731 and Fax: 022- 24935275.
The E-mail address is rpo.mumbai@mea.gov.in and the website is http://passport.gov.in/
Tele-enquiry can be made on the number 022-24965555.

If any complaints are to be made in this regard then the person has to be contacted on Tel: 022- 24931731.

For the entire procedure of form filling kindly visit the site http://passport.gov.in/mumbai.html.

At the moment not all cities in the country have regional passport offices. Though the number of the passport offices in the country is on the increase. Here is a list of passport offices located in the cities of their respective zones. India is basically divided into five zones, the northern zone, the eastern zone, the southern zone, the western zone and the Central Zone. A list of the cities having passport offices in each of the five zones is given below.

The North Zone:

There are Passport offices located in the cities of

Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh

Chandigarh- capital of Haryana and Punjab

Delhi- the country capital

Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh

Jalandhar in Punjab

Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir

Lucknow- capital of Uttar Pradesh

Srinagar- capital of Jammu and Kashmir

Shimla- capital of Himachal Pradesh

The West Zone:

There are Passport offices located in the cities of

Mumbai- capital of Maharashtra

Ahmedabad in Gujarat

Jaipur-capital of Rajasthan

Goa

Nagpur in Maharashtra

Surat in Gujarat

Thane in Maharashtra

Pune in Maharashtra

The East Zone:

There are passport offices located in the following cities

Kolkatta- capital of West Bengal

Bhubhaneshwar- capital of Orissa

Patna- capital of Bihar

Ranchi- capital of Jharkhand

Guwahati in Assam.

The South Zone:

There are passport offices in the following cities

Chennai- capital of Tamil Nadu

Bangalore- capital of Karnataka

Hyderabad- capital of Andhra Pradesh

Trivandrum- capital of Kerala

Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh

Trichy in Kerala

Mallapuram in Kerala

Madurai in Tamil Nadu

Kozhikode in Kerala

Cochin in Kerala

The Central zone:

There are passport offices in the following cities

Bhopal- capital of Madhya Pradesh

Raipur- capital of Chattisgarh

While getting a passport issued under your name, there are a few documents that need to be submitted. First after paying the relevant fees of Rs. 1500 or Rs. 1000 for a 36 page passport booklet or a 60 page passport booklet respectively, the application form is given to the passport seeker. The application form has to be duly filled in legible hand writing. The application form may be got from the local passport office or can even be downloaded from the Net.

The proof of Residence has to be submitted. Now as a proof of Residence, the Voter’s ID, Ration Card, Electricity Bill, Telephone Bill, Bank Account Statement or the Income Tax statement may be used. Two self attested copies of this Residence proof are required.

Next, the date of birth proof is required. For which two copies of the Birth Certificate may be submitted. If you actually haven’t stayed at that particular residence for the past one year, then you may need to present an additional form. This form is known as the “Personal Particulars Form” which has the details of the other residence in which the said person was staying. This form has to be supplemented with copies of relevant documents proving his claim.

If your name has been changed now and is different from the one that appears on the Birth Certificate, then you need to submit either your husbands passport copy, if the change in the name is because of marriage or an affidavit stating that the name has been changed which has to be supplemented with a copy of the print out of the Newspaper where in the change of name had been printed.

A passport is essential for everyone who wishes to travel abroad out of India. The first basic requirement for getting the passport issued in your name is that you should be a citizen of India. In order to get the passport, you have to fill up a simple passport application form. This form can be easily downloaded from the site of the Indian Government’s which is http//www.passport.nic.in. Or the passport application form can be taken from the Passport office or other designated offices in your city or could be issued to you using the courier system. After getting the form, you just need to fill all the data and information required and then you may get the passport in some time.

If you are looking for a passport urgently then you may receive it under the Tatkal Scheme. Here, in order to get the passport issued quickly you will need a verification certificate. This certificate could be taken from distinguished personalities of the Central or the State Government or even from a Colonel or any greater rank in the Army, air force or the Navy. This passport is generally issued only under emergency situations and extra fees may be charged for it.

Rs. 1000 is the fees for a new passport of 36 pages for 10 years validity and Rs. 1500 are the fees for a new passport of 60 pages for 15 years validity. To get a passport within ten days of application under the Tatkal Scheme the fees is Rs. 1500. And to get the passport issued in 11-35 days from the time of submission of the application is Rs. 1000. The payments can be made either in the form of a bank draft in the name of the Regional Passport officer or by paying through Cash.