Hi Friends,
Following is the procedure for getting your passport after you become a major. No need of an agent’s assistance with this simple procedure.
1. Register for the passport application in the official website http://passport.tn.nic.in/facility.htm and by clicking the “For general Public” category.
2. In the next page just click continue
3. Now, your registration form appears. Here if you want to book by tatkaal click Chennai tatkal and not just Chennai for Passport Office.
4. In the next box select your district. Then select if it’s a new passport or renewal, etc. in the next box.
5. In the box for surname give the expansion of your initial and in the box for First Name give your name
6. Select your gender and then give your Date of Birth in the next column. Make sure that if you are born on or after 26/1/1989, you have the proof as birth certificate for your Date of Birth.
7. Then type your place of birth, district or country.
8. If you are a student then in the box for Qualification type the degree/class you are studying in and then in the column for Profession type Student.
9. Enter your visible marks and height in centimetres.
10. Enter the place at which you are residing completely as in the proof you are going to submit. If you are living there for less than 1 year then tick the box below in the page and enter the various places you were living in this one year with the duration.
11. In the column for Permanent Address if it is the same as the present address, then type SAME in the columns.
12. Give the duration of stay in the present address.
13. Give your phone number and email address.
14. Select your marital status and give your Father’s Name in the format as you gave your name and Mother’s Name as: her name first and then the expansion of her initial.
15. Then enter the access code and click submit
16. Then select the date for your appointment in the next page whenever it is convenient for you.
Procedure for a few hand filling segments:
1) Put your signature or thumb impression in the designated and box and affix a passport size (3.5 X 3.5 cm) photograph in the box adjacent to it.
2) If tatkaal registration change the fee amount to 2500 and payment has to be in DD favouring “The Regional Passport Officer, Chennai” payable at Chennai.
3) In the item number 13 if you are not a government worker select No
4) In item number 14 select your citizenship status.
5) In item number 15 if you are eligible for ECNR status then select yes and write the qualification for the eligibility among the 10 documents given in the website http://passport.gov.in/cpv/column_guidelines.htm in column 15.
6) Sign at the required places. Put NA at the designated places that are not applicable for you.
7) Get an affidavit I for standard purposes fromhttps://passport.gov.in/cpv/ANNEXUREI_std.htm in this format from a lawyer. For all other purposes check the website at https://passport.gov.in/cpv/Affidavits.htm and get those from a lawyer. Get it notorised in a Rs. 20 Stamp Paper which will cost with notorisation around Rs.150 or Rs.200. You can get it done in the Passport Office complex(Shanthi Bhavan) itself. It has to be done preferably before your application date(for your convenience).
8) Take 2 photocopies of all the originals. The affidavit original has to be attached with only one photocopy. All the photocopies should be self-attested.
9) In the personal particulars form, fill in the necessary details. For references give the name and address of your neighbours. They should not be blood relatives or any kind of relatives.
Procedure for keeping the photocopies in order.
1. After page 4 keep one set of photocopies along with the affidavit original.
2. After page 5 keep the other set of photocopies in order with the photocopy of the affidavit.
3. If you are a student get a bonafide from your institution and keep the original and a photocopy. The original should be after page 4 and the photocopy should be after page 5.
4. ALL THE SHEETS OF THE APPLICATION HAS TO BE PRINTED IN SEPARATE A4 SHEETS AND NOT BACK TO BACK.
Cross Sign the Photos on the personal particular pages alone. Don't do it in the first page.
Cross Sign the Photos on the personal particular pages alone. Don't do it in the first page.
Take the originals. Make sure that the details furnished and the originals are intact. Not even a single data should be different. Go to the passport office as early as 6:30 AM and get your token number at 8:30 AM. Wait for your call, submit the form and pay your DD in the counter and collect your receipt. You will receive your passport in 15 days via speed post. Police verification will within 1 week after your passport arrives. Enjoy after that!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!
