• Your Indian passport is an important document.  It should always remain in your personal custody
  • In a foreign country, your Indian passport is the only  identification document to  identity you as an Indian citizen
  • Apart from being an identification document, your Indian passport is also a travel document.  Without a valid and uptodate passport, you cannot leave or enter any country
  • You should ensure that your passport always remains valid with up-to-date entries. You can renew your passport one year in advance of the expiry date entered in the passport
  • Under the Indian Passports Act 1967, it is an offence to provide false information in the passport application
  • You can be refused passport facilities on grounds of suppression of factual information; providing false information; willful damage of passport; and, tampering with the entries in the passport
  • At any time, your passport can be impounded or revoked by the Government of India if you violate the Indian Passports Act 1967
  • If you acquire citizenship of another country, you cease to be an Indian citizen.  In the circumstances, it will be unlawful for you to hold an Indian passport.  You should, therefore, have your Indian passport immediately cancelled by the nearest Indian mission (Consulate or Embassy)
  • As soon as you receive your passport, make a photocopy and keep it in a safe place away from the original passport. In the event, your original passport is lost/damaged/stolen, the photocopy will help in faster processing for issuing a duplicate passport
  • If you are travelling to another country, the passport travels with you.  You should not, therefore, ship your passport to any other country from the country you are resident in
  • If your passport is lost, stolen or destroyed, you should immediately file a report at the nearest police station and to the nearest passport issuing authority in India and to the nearest Indian Mission abroad
 

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