Indian passport rules changed |
The government of India has announced a series of steps that would help single mothers, orphaned children, and sadhus obtain passports with ease. Thus, it will relax the need for birth certificates in the application process, Minister of State for External Affairs General (retd.) V.K. Singh declared that passport-related grievances would now be handled on the social media platform of Twitter. The new rules for online application require the applicant to provide the name of father or mother or legal guardian. This would enable single parents to apply for passports for their children and facilitate issue of passports where the name of either the father or the mother is not required to be printed at the request of the applicant. The annexures have been brought down to nine from the 15 required under the Passport Rules, 1980. The new annexures would be in the form of `self declaration` on a plain paper. The new rules allow faster processing for married applicants as they can apply without attaching marriage certificate. The passport application form does not require the application to provide the name of her/his spouse in case of separated or divorced persons. Such applicants would not be required to provide even the Divorce Decree. Holy men can now apply for a passport with the name of their spiritual guru, instead of biological parents.
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