- Consular Timings are different from the working hours of the Consulate. Consular Timings are from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm. on all working days when members of the public are received for rendering consular services.
- Serviced documents are delivered on all working days from 4.00 to 4.45 pm (local time)
- Before addressing any questions, please patiently visit the Consulate’s website at www.cgisf.org. After going through the contents in the website, if further clarifications are required, email us.
- For announcements by the Consulate, please also visit the Notice Board on the Consulate’s website
- When visiting the Consulate for consular services, you should ensure that you carry with you your original:
- Previous and current Indian Passports (US passport if US citizens)
- Green Card
- EAD
- US Visa Extension Document/I-94
- Proof of Residence (Driving license, lease agreement, utility bill - PG&E, Water or AT&T - displaying residential address of the applicant). Apart from these, no other documents (like bank/credit card statement, mobile phone bills, etc.) qualify as proof of residence.
- Marriage Certificate
- All additional documents required for a particular service
- Photographs
- Irrespective of the nature of service desired, photocopy each of the following documents is mandatorily required for all services
- Money order or cashier’s cheque in favour of the ‘Consulate General of India, San Francisco’ for the service desired. The Consulate does not accept credit cards or personal cheques or any other banking instruments.
- A stamped self-addressed USPS Express Mail envelope if the finished consular documents are to be mailed
IMPORTANT
APPLICATION FOR ALL CONSULAR SERVICES MUST BE SUBMITTED IN PERSON BY THE APPLICANT OR IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER OF THE APPLICANT AT THE COUNTER. ALTERNATIVELY, THE APPLICATION MAY BE MAILED. PERSONAL INTERVIEW MAY BE CALLED FOR.
NOTE:
- Provide complete, accurate and truthful information in the application form
- Complete, accurate and truthful information also helps in speedier processing of application
- Misrepresentation of facts may result in denial of passport facilities;
- Habitual losers of passports may be denied further passport facilities
- Whosoever contravenes the provision of the Passport Act 1967 by:
- Travelling without a valid passport
- Knowingly furnishing wrong information
- Attempting to alter entries made on the passport or travel document
- Failing to produce his/her passport for inspection
- Knowingly using a passport or travel document issued to another person
- Knowingly allowing another person to use a passport or travel document issued to him/her
Shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term upto 2 years or with fine or with both.
- Whosoever not being a citizen of India makes an application for a passport or obtains a passport by suppression of information about his/her nationality or holds a forged Indian passport or travel document shall be punishable by imprisonment upto 5 years and with fine
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