| Packed your bags for a long holiday abroad? Ready | | | | certificate, citizenship proof and passport-size photos. |
| to leave? Before you sign off, it would be wise to | | | | Apart from this, the payment is also to be included |
| check if your passport has expired. If so, don't get | | | | with the forms submitted. Sometimes certain |
| tense. Just consider yourself lucky that the | | | | modifications or amendments have to be made in |
| procedure of passport renewal has improved over | | | | printed passports, for which submitting a passport |
| the years and will not take much time. | | | | renewing application is required. |
| Passport renewal is a service offered by the | | | | Normally, the process of passport renewal does not |
| government of a country for its citizens who need | | | | take too long, 6 weeks on average. But in cases of |
| to travel internationally and are not the first-time | | | | emergency, the process can be sped up, reducing |
| applicants of a passport. Passport renewal is basically | | | | the time taken to one day. |
| the procedure of renewing or re-issuing a passport in | | | | Owing to security issues the method of passport |
| case it has been lost, stolen or damaged. A passport | | | | renewal has been made more rigid and complex. This |
| is also renewed if the name of the applicant has | | | | has been done by including digital photographs, |
| changed and his current passport bears his old name. | | | | biometric technology, and the most recent, |
| The steps involved in the process of renewal include | | | | e-passport. However, passport renewal is not an |
| submitting a passport renewal application form and | | | | expensive service, and provides us with a gateway |
| important documents like identification, birth | | | | to the world outside our national borders. |