Applying For Passport Made Easy: Read Significant Changes Brought In Passport Application Process

Aadhar as DoB, self-attestation and relief for single parents, divorcees, adopted children and orphans are the significant changesIn order to ‘streamline, liberalise and ease the process of issue of passport’, the Ministry of External Affairs has simplified passport application rules.Notifications reflecting these changes are yet to be published in gazette, but the ministry has. The online passport application form now requires the applicant to provide the name of father or mother or legal guardian, i.e., only one parent and not both. The passport application form does not require the applicant to provide the name of her/his spouse in case of separated or divorced person- they need not produce divorce decree also. In order to ‘streamline, liberalise and ease the process of issue of passport’, the Ministry of External Affairs has simplified passport application rules.Notifications reflecting these changes are yet to be published in gazette, but the ministry has issued necessary instructions to the passport issuing authorities in India and abroad on these revised regulations.In the press release, the MEA stated that it expects that these changes in passport rules would further ease the process for passport applicants in getting their passport.