Now, passports to be issued sans police verification
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, February 2
The regional passport office has initiated a new scheme under which an applicant would be issued a passport within five days. In this system, if an applicant submits copies of the Aaadhar card, electoral photo ID and PAN card, the passport would be issued without waiting for police verification which can be received later. The system would be beneficial for people as police verification delays the whole process.
Regional passport officer Krishan Kumar said it takes around 21 to 35 days to receive the police verification from the Police Department which delays the issuance of passport. He said with the new system in place along with the three above identity proofs, the applicant would have to submit an affidavit stating that he is not facing any criminal case.
He said in case the applicant supplies wrong information in the affidavit, his passport would be revoked and legal action would be taken. He added that the new system would be beneficial for the genuine applicants.
He said the office has also launched an “mPassport Police App” for speedy submission of the police verification report (PVR). The application would facilitate the field-level verification officer to directly PV report into the system digitally.
He said the regional passport office had processed 1,33,114 applications in 2015 in comparison to 1,05,659 applications in 2014 because of the citizen-friendly measures taken by the Ministry of External Affairs.
