Application Form:
- Complete an online application. Click on ‘Online Registration Form’.
Please look at the online application guide to get help for completing an online application.
Applications for all passport services must be filled out online. The Consulate is obligated to issue a Machine Readable Passport. Therefore, the downloaded application form can not be used and the consulate can not send you the passport application form by fax or email. - Print the online application.
Online NRI Passport Application - The appointment date printed on the form is NOT valid.
- Signature/ Thumb Impression:
- First signature on page 1 in the box below the photograph.
- Second signature on page 4 in the box at the bottom of the page.
- If you cannot sign, you should affix your thumb impression (right thumb for female applicants and left thumb for male applicants) in the boxes provided for signature. You should either sign or affix thumb impression, but not both. If you are applying for a passport for your child and he/she can not sign, you should affix his/her thumb impression as you can not sign on behalf of your child.
- First signature on page 1 in the box below the photograph.
- Affix your photo on the passport form.
Application Tips
- Application forms should be completed in all aspects before submitting them. Misrepresentation or suppression of facts may result in denial of Passport or other Consular services.
- Make sure that no column is left blank or unfilled/unresponded to or vaguely filled with a dash, tick-mark, etc.
- All signatures in the application form should be with a ballpoint pen as signatures in ink or feather tip pen are likely to smudge while laminating. Do not use a pencil to fill the form. Please ensure that the specimen signature is within the box provided in the application form.
- Signatures on the passport and on the online application form must be the same.
- Information in the application form must match the information on your old passport unless specific changes are requested along with the supporting documents. Applicant’s Name, Applicant’s Spouse Name, and Applicant’s Father Name must be the same as in the old passport.
- The data filed in the online form is used while printing the passport. Therefore, please check the application form for accuracy before submitting your application.
- Use CAPITAL LETTERS to fill the form.
- The fields that are not applicable can be left blank.
- Write the actual city/town/village and state in place of birth. Do not simply write ‘India’.
In case you realize that you have filled the online application forms incorrectly and/or can not keep the original appointment date for any reason, you don’t have to cancel the appointment date. Just complete the online form again and come on the date generated on the new form.
