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1. The Consular Passport and Visa (CPV) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs is responsible for the issuance of the Indian Passport to Indian Citizens. Passports are issued to Indian citizens from 30 locations across the country and 163 Indian missions abroad.
2. All information pertaining to the issuance of Passports can be availed from the Central website passport.gov.in.
3. All the Passport offices located in India have an online Status Enquiry Service, whereby one can check the status of a passport application by entering the File Reference Number available in the receipt. Applicants can also avail the facility to submit their doubts or problems online, in case there are any.

1. Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC)
2. Service Identity Card issued by State/Central Government, Public Sector Undertakings, local bodies or Public Limited Companies.
3. SC/ST/ OBC Certificates.
   
4. Arms Licenses.
5. Property Documents.
6. Rations Cards.
7. Pension Documents such as ex-servicemens Pension Book/Pension Payment order, ex-servicemens Widow/Dependent Certificates, Old Age Pension Order, Widow Pension Order.
8. Railway Identity Cards.
9. Income Tax Identity (PAN) Cards.
10. Bank/ Kisan/Post Office Passbooks.
11. Student Identity Cards issued by Recognized Educational Institutions.
12. Driving Licenses.
13. Birth Certificates.

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 Passport form for each additional place of stay.

1. One can apply for Passport through Online Registration, (after doing online registration, get print outs of the application form) Online Registration.
2. Apart from this applicant can submit directly in the respective passport office/ DPCs/Speed post centers, get the relevant application form from here.
   

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.